One of the world's largest stashes of gold is in rural India, and to judge by its glittering jewellery shops this town has considerably more than its fair share.
Apple maintains that after the change it will still be able to issue such stock.The lawsuit gave Mr Einhorn an opportunity to protest in the media about what he sees as a kind of Depression-era mentality at Apple, which in his view means that it stashes away far too much cash.
This fund, which is expected to reach almost $90 billion by the end of this year, is where the state stashes the proceeds of its North Sea oil output.
The most successful emerging economies have built up huge stashes of foreign currency; many are leery of depending too much on foreign borrowing.
On August 30th, authorities from the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that they had arrested seven men in Utah and seized stashes of guns, cash, and drugs.
Such countries, especially in Asia, preferred to insure themselves against the fickleness of capital flows rather than risk having to ask for the fund's help, and built vast stashes of foreign exchange.
Security forces may have been mindful of the fact that some households in his town, Awamiyeh, were known to have stashes of guns smuggled in from Yemen and Iraq.
Nature's drug users procured their stashes from prescriptions from doctors or over the internet.
Nor does it cover private stashes such as Mr Gurlitt's.Whatever Germany does now, Mr Gurlitt's case remains vexing.
Indeed British tax evaders might be well advised to plant their stashes elsewhere.
Since those countries with the biggest stashes, notably China, have most room to boost spending in this crisis, other emerging economies might easily conclude that self-insurance is their best bet.The G20 pledges have the potential to stop that drift.
