'Apple's now as big as ALL of America's GDP!' Oh do shut UP, you fools

Read the numbers any way you want, and take your pick

Worstall on Wednesday Apple's results are out and it's time for the traditional game of trying to work out which nation state the company is richer than. With sales at $58bn for the quarter, and profits of $13.7bn - and depending upon how absurd we want to make our method of measurement - this makes it the same as the US economy, the size of Ireland, or Pakistan, or Luxembourg. Take your pick."