Apple's cash and securities ballooned to nearly $100 billion, an eye-popping sum that is likely to revive calls for Apple to return some of the hoard to investors in the form of stock buybacks and dividends.
Debts owed to IKA — mostly by employers delinquent on their social security contributions — ballooned to 8 billion euros, from 4.8 billion euros in 2010, the union representing IKA workers said.
Second, whether or not defense gigantism is a recipe for military disaster, today's level of spending on big-platform systems is simply economically unsustainable: government budgets are about to feel enormous new pressures as baby boomers retire and Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security spending balloons.
The security state ballooned, and the war on terror blossomed into a thousand atrocities.
And the volume of securities underwritings ballooned.
These intracompany securities have ballooned recently up $300 million, or 58%, last year.
The U.S. has allowed the total federal debt (including debt held by government agencies, like the Social Security fund) to balloon by 50% since 2006 to $12.3 trillion.
A 2013 document, written by an official at UK Trade and Investment, the body charged with promoting business interests,, outlines how the region's "global policing and security market has ballooned".
Now the baby boomers have come in some quarters to be called the Greediest Generation, as voters and politicians continue to put off the tough decisions about the future of Social Security and the ballooning deficit.
I measure my success in column inches and television hours, in ballooning security budgets, butchered liberties, amended laws and – my ultimate goal – Muslims persecuted and recruited to our cause.
