It's serious order lumigan These corporations are wisely holding back money because of expenses they expect to have to pay in the next few years. They are expecting bad times because of the anti-business climate of this administration. Corporations would rather be like Ford, which survived the 2008 collapse because of a large cash balance, rather than like GM, which should have gone bankrupt due to lack of cash. The GM stockholders lost their assets when the government took over the company. Corporate officers have a duty to protect the shareholders from that kind of event.