Person Of Interest S01E16 - Risk FULL REACTION
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The cop with the scar on his face is Elias' right hand man, he was introduced in the same episode that met the actual Elias. As for explaining the business part of the episode: the whole episode was about the concept of "shortselling" which is a common practice in finance. Basically, the idea is that you borrow shares in a company for a certain amount of time promising the actual owner that you will return those shares to them after that time. While you have them in your possession however, you actually sell them and then buy them back later so you can give them back to the owner as per your agreement. If the worth of the shares drops between selling them and buying them back then you make a profit, if the worth of the shares goes up you make a loss instead. Essentially, you are betting on whether or not a company is going to lose worth - it's completely legal as long as you don't have information that allows you to accurately predict what is going to happen. In the beginning of the episode Adam bet that the pharmaceutical company (from the episode with Clarkes mother) would lose worth because unlike the other bankers he believed that the guy who owned it would be convicted. He actually did get convicted, therefore the company was worth less money, therefore Adam "won the bet" and made a lot of money. The bad guys basically tried to do the same thing with shares in Tritak except they knew that the company would lose worth because they knew that that law was going to get passed and hurt the company. So what they did was borrow a bunch of shares for Tritak and then had everyone in the firm buy even more for their customers (like Adams uncle) - a lot of people buying shares makes them worth more. Therefore they were able to sell their Tritak shares at a very high price (before the law was passed) knowing they could buy them back very cheaply later (after the law was passed). Finch f-ed up their plan by starting to buy a lot of shares in Tritak to make them more valuable before the bad guys could buy the shares back (since they needed to buy them again at a cheap price in order to "win the bet" and make a profit). If all of that sounds incredibly complicated and stupid to you then thats because finance overall is incredibly complicated and stupid xD
BeckettBaladas
2022-07-03 23:36:39 +0000 UTCThis is what was happening Say you buy stocks that is worth $1 per stock, then the price goes up to $2 dollars you then can sell and make double the money you originally invested. So this company forced the stock price up by investing heavily, and if you know ahead of time that that price is going to drop drastically you then sell the stock at the highest price point making lots of your own money while everyone else loses all there money.
Andrew Polinski
2022-07-03 17:44:37 +0000 UTC
