Following on from my post last week on Apple's bond issue, click here to read Mark Roe's piece at Project Syndicate where he discusses why it might be a good long-term strategy for Apple to return a large chuck of its $137bn cash pile to shareholders. Roe believes that Apple may be at a point in its corporate and innovation life-cycle where the cash could be wasted by its management in pursuit of the next big thing - the iThingamajig. Consequently, he argues that the cash is better in the hands of investors.