Person of Interest 1x16 Full Length + REACTION
Added 2021-03-23 00:15:00 +0000 UTCEpisode 16 'Risk'
Silver /GOLD Tier 23.05.21
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Risk- Thank you so much for another fantastic reaction! Like always... I really enjoyed watching your reaction for this episode. I really love this episode a lot. I don't understand anything about the stock numbers and trading, or the fracking. So this all was way confusing. However, not understanding the technical things and numbers doesn't lower my enjoyment for this episode. I still love it nonetheless. Interesting fact... the company that is shown to be found guilty in the beginning of this episode when we see just how good of a broker Adam is, is Britanan Pharmaceutical, which is the very company that Reese and Finch took down back in this season's previous episode... The Fix, where we first meet the fixer, Zoe Morgan. This is how Reese knew that the company and its people would be found guilty beforehand and it's why he told Adam he was familiar with the case. Love it! I really love Adam's character, as well as his Uncle Bob. And I love the overall storyline throughout the episode and seeing Reese save Adam each time that he does so. Adam is a good kid, with a good head on his shoulders. He's a bit reckless at times when it comes to enjoying living the rush, but he truly does love his uncle and is truly grateful to him for giving him a home and a father figure when his own father failed to be there for him. I also love how Reese introduces Adam to the homeless woman who helped take care of him while he too was homeless and on the run for four months, which is why I love how Adam later buys the building so that the homeless people living there would be able to continue doing so and that they would be taken care of, as a way of showing them his gratitude for looking after him too. You're absolutely right how this shows us that Adam truly is a good man at heart, because he didn't have to repay these people in this way. It's really quite something. And I love seeing Reese return to the building in the ending to thank the homeless woman for looking after him for those four months he lived there while in hiding as well, and how he helps to clean up the mess from the short lived attack the night before. You can really see in Reese's eyes how much her helping him had meant to him. And this shows once again just how good of a man Reese truly is. And how good and kind she is too. Such a tender and beautiful moment. And I especially love how this woman asks Reese who's looking after him now, to which Reese answers that someone new is... referring to Finch of course. It's really nice seeing Finch listening in on Reese's conversation with the woman, and you can see that he too is touched by Reese's conversation with the woman. And lastly... I absolutely love the surprise revelation that Elias is the one behind the "suicides" and big scheme, and how Scarface looks up into the camera to let Carter and therefore John and Finch know that he and Elias are back in the action. Absolutely brilliant!!! Yep... Elias is back! Thank you again, so much! I can't wait for more Person of Interest!!! Sincerely, Heidi
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2021-06-30 06:04:27 +0000 UTCGreat reaction. I'm not a financial guy. But because of the situation that happened recently with reddit pushing the price of Gamestop to screw over the hedge funds, I did learn about what shorting a stock means. I'll tell you the way it was explained to me which I was able to understand. Let's say you and I are friends. You own a Dodge Ram truck. I think the value of your truck is going to go down. So I see a way to make some money. You allow me to borrow your truck for 1 week. We sign a contract so I am legally obligated to return your truck in exactly one week. As soon as I get your truck, I sell it for 30,000. So now I have 30k but no truck and still have to give your truck back. If things go right and I was correct, the value of your truck starts to go down. Later in the week I am able to buy your truck back for 15k. I return your truck back to you like I am obligated to do, but I made a profit of 15k. The problem comes if I sell your truck for 30k and then the value goes up. By the end of the week the value of your truck is now 50k. I am still legally obligated to return your truck so I am forced to buy it at 50k. So I give your truck back to, but I have lost 20k on the transaction. In the world of stocks, hedge funds borrow shares of stocks from brokerage firms with the agreement that they will return those shares after a specified period of time. So imagine a stock is selling for $5 a share, but the hedge fund is expecting the stock to crater. They borrow 50 million shares. They sell the stock at $5 ($250 Million) . The stock drops to $1 a share. They buy the 50 million shares back ($50 million). They give the shares back to the brokerage and make $200 million profit. But if someone like Finch comes in and invests hundreds of millions in that stock. The price is suddenly $15 a share. The hedge fund is still required to give back the 50 million shares. So they buy them back ($750 Million). They return the 50 million shares but have now lost $500 million. This is legal for hedge funds to do as long as they are using public knowledge about the company to make those decisions. In this case it was illegal because they were using the information that legislation was going to pass weeks before that information became public knowledge. This is what an investment forum on reddit did to the hedge funds with Gamestop recently. Reddit learned that hedge funds had shorted Gamestop by the hundreds of millions. The hedge funds rightly felt Gamestop was in financial trouble and could be flirting with bankruptcy. Reddit decided to send a message to the hedge funds who routinely make millions betting on companies failing. They started a massive social media campaign to get individuals to start buying Gamestop shares. The price was fluctuating around $15 per share for a long time. When reddit got involved, the price skyrocketed to over $300 per share within several days. It did eventually drop, but never got back to the prices pre reddit involvement. Several hedge funds were forced to buy back at the high prices and lost 100s of millions. Some were able to hold out until the drop, but still lost millions on their buy backs. I know this is a long message, but I hope it helps. I found the whole thing fascinating when I started to learn about it.
Stephen Smith
2021-03-25 00:04:07 +0000 UTCPatreon's embed system playing up again. It was there when I posted it! Anyways all fixed now 😎
GreyWolf TV
2021-03-23 00:27:26 +0000 UTC
