&gt; was hoping for a big win this quarter.<p>The largest quarterly profit ever recorded by <i>any</i> company wasn&#x27;t enough of a big win? I don&#x27;t want to soapbox too much, but there is something deeply wrong with capitalism when you can be more profitable than any corporation that has ever existed and it seems like a letdown.<p>&gt; Especially with so much foreign debt in USD, a lot of companies are going to have a hard time paying off bonds and loans, hurting their ability to grow.<p>All the tech companies that have had big bond issues recently (Apple, Microsoft, etc.) are doing it because it&#x27;s literally cheaper than repatriating their actual foreign earnings to the United States. As long as those foreign earnings continue to exist, borrowing money is arguably a <i>better</i> way to finance their day-to-day operations, especially when interest rates don&#x27;t seem likely to climb much in the intermediate future.