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$AAPL stonk go up.
Before Trump announced it publicly. Martha Stewart was jailed for less.
Martha is a woman, so...
Generally convictions are less severe for women though, so that doesn't explain it...
Getting any sentence at all > no sentence.
also if they reasonably attractive and not ugly, helps too.
That's actually not gender specific, good looking people generally do better and are judged less harshly, regardless of gender.
How can we price the stock correctly if we don’t know how much of the profit margin needs to be cut to account for bribes? If Apple shouldered the bribe on its own is this a disadvantage when their competitors gets tariff relief for free? Do they pay every 3 months or every year? Maybe we learn the bribe price on the quarterly conference call? Apple has some kind of leverage against the US government and this isn’t an expense?
I have more questions than a three years old!