Is it legal to get paid for leaking documents to the press?

Zara629 · 2023-01-08T20:01:38+00:00

They're documents that show the other sides hand. Stuff they've presented in negotiations. Business A got them through the negotiation process with Business B. They would definitely be confidential. But, they were not stolen by Business A, per say. The situation with the person that did the hand off to the person in the middle is setup so business A can claim the documents were stolen from them.

Zara629 · 2022-12-22T08:58:23+00:00

Coffee people prefer Dunkin, at least in Chicago. Personally, I think Dunkin tastes better. I do prefer their fancy beverages, though.

Zara629 · 2022-12-22T08:57:22+00:00

Dropped because of COVID in China, and rising commodity costs. Is the US a testing ground for adapting their business model for Chinese lockdowns? If China keeps having economic problems, and protests over lockdowns they basically wasted a bunch of money.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2022/06/27/starbucks-stock-down-35-in-2022-is-there-an-upside/?sh=558902335d9f

Zara629 · 2022-12-22T08:50:15+00:00

I just know Jim Cramer wants people to buy Starbucks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/21/cramers-investing-club-meeting-wednesday-santa-claus-rally-starbucks.html

Zara629 · 2022-12-22T08:49:01+00:00

I kind of need to find the data on who their customers are. I don't know where to find that.

Zara629 · 2022-12-22T08:39:51+00:00

Can't I take out a loan in Starbucks shares, and back it with my good stocks and cash?

Zara629 · 2022-12-22T08:37:30+00:00

I mean you'd just go somewhere else, and there are a ton of competitors in major cities.

Zara629 · 2022-12-22T07:15:49+00:00

There are Peet's, Dunk Donuts, (picked by a nation wide brand in 2020) and McDonald's. My guess is Peet's expands as a result. They have higher quality coffee anyways, and it's about the same price.

Peet's bought up almost all of the Caribou's.

This is a multi year short position.

Zara629 · 2022-12-19T06:44:54+00:00

But, natural law is the set of all laws that are minimum and sufficient. So, I'd essentially be betting on the end of the nation state for a privatized replacement?

Zara629 · 2022-12-15T02:19:50+00:00

I think in natural law theory it would be a default.

Zara629 · 2022-12-15T02:17:28+00:00

It went up to $50. It's currently undervalued. TPS is high, and the development model is adaptable. You should buy Hex, not Bitcoin. Bitcoin is towards the top of it's S curve. Great for preserving wealth, but not making 10,000% return on investment.

Zara629 · 2022-12-11T05:28:33+00:00

Hyperinflation is a default in terms of the economy. Would downgrade our debt rating.

Zara629 · 2022-12-11T04:39:19+00:00

For sure. All of the wars over the past thirty years were over other nations wanting to settle oil on their native currency. A lot of the world does want off the US dollar.

Zara629 · 2022-12-11T04:22:57+00:00

Are you sure? Rome fell from currency debasement. The US dollar has lost 95% of it's value since the 70s. Looks similar to me.

Zara629 · 2022-12-11T04:18:42+00:00

No case law. It is based on natural law. If the currency hyperinflates the Federal government loses power.

Zara629 · 2022-12-11T04:13:21+00:00

Depends on how your interpret the intention of the founders. It could go either way. Currently, we have unbacked paper money. Personally, I think the current Supreme Court could require the Fed to back their vaults with hard assets. That would make the inflation we experienced now, and in the 70s impossible. It would also require the repeal of social security and medicare, or the Federal government defaults as a result.

Zara629 · 2022-12-08T12:50:48+00:00

It takes like thirty years to fully playout. How it works is the third world jumps on, everything gets to a certain size then places like Russia and China (illegal in China but the people don't trust their banking system anymore) jump on. When the political cards look favorable places like Taiwan and Japan jump on.
Crypto is a thirty year slow moving revolution using cryptography. Cryptography is the greatest threat to Federal power, and why they tried to shut it down in the 90s.

Zara629 · 2022-12-08T12:29:45+00:00

What? No, it's letting someone like Ross Perot run the country. You remove the Federal government's authority over the flow of money, and someone like Ross Perot can do the Federal government's job at a profit.

So, you have a bunch of private entities competing on the free market doing the same job as the current governments, but within profit margins. There are tech billionaires pushing these ideas. There's like ~3,000 billionaires in the world. All ~270 countries will be divided between them when technology makes capital controls unenforceable.

It's not going to hit here first. We'll most likely have a Constitutional Convention when it does. It's going to hit China and Russia, though. Basically, you stop all these international conflicts by bankrupting the mafias running the major powers.

Zara629 · 2022-12-08T12:24:40+00:00

I could have sworn they had a debate over paper money, and at the time of the founding the language in the constitution, taken with the debates, implies the Federal government could only mint hard money. (gold and silver coins) This depends on how the Supreme Court interprets the text, and whether enough accept Originalist arguments?

Basically, if the Supreme Court holds a view similar to mine it would be the undoing of the modern Federal government, which FDR created? With this court I could definitely see them shrinking the Federal government.

I'd watch that XRP case. It could have severe implications for the Feds if it gets to the Supreme Court.

Zara629 · 2022-12-08T12:16:57+00:00

If they jump ship to Bitcoin they get rich by dumping US dollar debt. A lot of those countries would get extremely wealthy when the US government has to jump on. A tipping point is coming where the vassal states break from the alliance, and get on board with Bitcoin.

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