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First Apple, now Microsoft

Google is next.

Bob Maxey said:
I hope Gates and Jobs purchase Canada. I am already packing, just in case.
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They can't afford it. Have you seen the housing prices in Metro Vancouver lately? They can't purchase a city let alone the entire country.
 
Let's be serious. If Apple were to buy a country, the would pick one where they could get cheap manufacturing in Latin America. They'd do this so they could push out iPads without the shipping fare across the pond.
 
jerofld said:
Let's be serious. If Apple were to buy a country, the would pick one where they could get cheap manufacturing in Latin America. They'd do this so they could push out iPads without the shipping fare across the pond.
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Getting their product stolen in Latin America would probably net higher losses than shipping across the Atlantic.
 
Who needs a country when you can buy a few big islands. Pick a rleatively small but stable country and offer to pay off their national debt in exchange for a large Island. Say for example Panama. IIRC their national debt hovers somewhere around $10-$15 billion. Pay that off in exchange for the big island of coiba or the pearl archipelago. I mean cede sovereignty of the land to a corporation and let them organize it as their own country with all the laws benefiting the company above all else. Then move your headquarters there. Talk about being beyond the reach of most regulations. You'd still have to play by the rules of the individual markets you do business in, but that could be handled in a market by market basis. the company as a whole would be the law onto itself.

Frankly, I'm surprised no one has attempted it before.
 
Isthmus said:
Who needs a country when you can buy a few big islands. Pick a rleatively small but stable country and offer to pay off their national debt in exchange for a large Island. Say for example Panama. IIRC their national debt hovers somewhere around $10-$15 billion. Pay that off in exchange for the big island of coiba or the pearl archipelago. I mean cede sovereignty of the land to a corporation and let them organize it as their own country with all the laws benefiting the company above all else. Then move your headquarters there. Talk about being beyond the reach of most regulations. You'd still have to play by the rules of the individual markets you do business in, but that could be handled in a market by market basis. the company as a whole would be the law onto itself.

Frankly, I'm surprised no one has attempted it before.
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I think the hedge fund industry tried that in Iceland, but the natives got restless and the politicians wouldn't stay bought and refused to suppress the ruffians.
 
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