{"id":2029,"date":"2015-02-11T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2015-02-11T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:07:43","slug":"apple-is-basically-a-small-country-now-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/apple-is-basically-a-small-country-now-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Is Basically a Small Country Now &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/02\/apple-is-basically-a-small-country-now\/385385\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lead.jpg?w=987\" alt='Apple Is Basically a Small Country Now - The Atlantic' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/02\/apple-is-basically-a-small-country-now\/385385\/\">Apple Is Basically a Small Country Now &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 23px;\">It&#8217;s good to be Apple. Really good. As of this week, in fact, $700 billion worth of good. Apple&#8217;s closing price of $122.02 per share on Tuesday made it the first American company ever to cross that market-cap threshold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 23px;\">Apple is also now selling bonds in Switzerland, which is probably a smart way for the company to buffer its ginormous pile of cash. (As\u00a0<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00598c; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/moneybeat\/2015\/02\/10\/three-reasons-apple-is-selling-bonds-in-switzerland\/\">points out<\/a>, this means Apple can use proceeds from debt sales to reinvest in itself without getting taxed the way it would if it used money brought back from overseas.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 23px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/02\/apple-is-basically-a-small-country-now\/385385\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Is Basically a Small Country Now &#8211; The Atlantic. It&#8217;s good to be Apple. Really good. As of this week, in fact, $700 billion worth of good. Apple&#8217;s closing price of $122.02 per share on Tuesday made it the first American company ever to cross that market-cap threshold. Apple is also now selling bonds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maccconsulting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-wJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}