2026 Difficulty Thread

[philipma1957]

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But for printing money to work, he would have to sell the shares. Otherwise, it's money that can't be moved.
Or am I wrong?

This thing about high finance is really complicated sometimes..

there are around 8 billion shares he has control of about 60% of them.

so 4.8 billion shares.

shares are 170 so

4800,000,000 x 170 =8.16×10¹¹=  816 billon dollars.


he can pledge 10,000,000 shares at 150 to be transferred the day after the release date.

that is 1,500,000,000 billion bucks.

he future pledged them at a discount to a bank willing to take a shot.

and he can sweeten that with a 2% contingency.

ie if shares are under 150 he gives the bank 200,000 more shares.


i use smaller numbers above.

if he did that. here is the worst 10,200,000 shares are gone

he still has 816,000,000,000-10,200,000=815.9 billion shares

he would be foolish to not do a few pledges since it gives him cash now and hedges if the stock drops way low to 85 dollars.  

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[joker_josue]

he would be foolish to not do a few pledges since it gives him cash now and hedges if the stock drops way low to 85 dollars.  

But do you really think the banks will be willing to buy those shares like that?
As soon as the market finds out he did that, panic sets in and the price starts to fall.

Now, perhaps he won't even need to do that to ask the banks for money. Because he's at a level of market recognition where banks will always trust him to pay his bills.

I think these tycoons, who have millions, end up getting trapped in their own system in order to continue "having" all of that.

None of them can really say, "I'm going to sell everything and retire to a deserted island." Because nobody is going to buy everything they have at this price, and as soon as they start doing that, what is now worth millions will be worth very little.