431
Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment
(arstechnica.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
431 points (96.9% liked)
Technology
81078 readers
4271 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
A company with $130 billion in cash reserves is floating 100 year bonds.
So much for billionaires reinvesting profits to trickle down in the economy. Now they hold onto profits, calling in suckers to bet for them and not promising results until all of them are dead.
There were some stats floating around after the massive 210-280BN detaxation for rich people here in France, and it was that a whopping 3% was reinvested.
We've all heard "it takes money to make money." But rich people know it's better to use other people's money.
It's better to use what you can use.
....you know that was always how trickle down eonomics was going to be, right? Ift has never ad will never work
I'm not arguing for trickle down. I'm using their own arguments against them.
Well, you should consider that they plan to spend ALL of that cash on hand, PLUS the amount they have to borrow. And they plan to spend all of that in 2026. Their capex expenditures are planned to exceed their estimated operating cash flow.
Guess I won't be upgrading my phone this year. And neither will you. Or anyone.