18 Ridiculously Huge Things That Apple is Worth More Than

Geek · September 18, 2011

<p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/06/what-if-you-had-bought-apple-stock-instead-of-apple-hardware/">Apple stock</a> surpassed $400 a share again last Friday, bringing their market cap to $371.30 billion. That $371,300,000,000 is worth more than each of the following things:</p>

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<li>All 32 Eurozone Banks</li>

<li>The Entire Economy of Singapore</li>

<li>All of the Illegal Drugs in the World</li>

<li>Total U.S. Corporate Income Tax for 2011</li>

<li>The GDP of Denmark</li>

<li>The Great Wall of China (priced at $0.52 a brick)</li>

<li>The Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Stephen King, and Twilight Franchises – combined, plus another $300 billion</li>

<li>All of the Farm Land in Iowa & South Dakota, at $4200 per acre</li>

<li>The Total Endowments of the USA’s 13 Richest Universities and University Systems</li>

<li>45 days of global oil consumption</li>

<li>The Cost of America’s Obesity Epidemic</li>

<li>Every home in Detroit and Tampa combined</li>

<li>The big three drug makers; Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, and Pfizer, combined</li>

<li>Every home in Atlanta</li>

<li>10 times the total paid in federal child support in the U.S. last year</li>

<li>The five largest ETFs (exchange-traded funds)</li>

<li>10 years of Silver Production</li>

<li>The GDP of Israel, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon – combined</li>

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<p>This interesting (and ongoing) list comes from a tumblr blog that is appropriately titled <a href="http://thingsappleisworthmorethan.tumblr.com/">ThingsAppleIsWorthMoreThan</a>, well worth a follow just for the amusement factor alone.</p>

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