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Triggering Event

Categories: Trading

See: Termination Clause.

Lockheed has a deal with the U.S. Government. Taxpayer dollars pay Lockheed to keep at-the-ready a big missile production facility. If a bomb goes off in the Middle East larger than half a megaton and oil prices spike over night more than 10%, Lockheed has the unbridled right to produce 5,000 missiles at $10,000 a drink, immediately.

The triggering event was that bomb plus the oil spike happening at the same time.

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