Money Monster
Mass Stock Shorting
TV host Lee Gates is in a dire situation and asks his audience to buy a stock to inflate its price and save his life. This clip shows the supply and demand side of the stock market: creating demand for a stock will increase its price.
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Video Transcript
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I want to talk to everybody out there every single person that's watching me right now
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here's what I want you to do
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I want you to go to your computer
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and I want you to buy
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Ibis stock
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the upfront with you
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I don't you do it because your make money
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I want you to do it
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because they'll save my life
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money money
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money money
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a bump on a massive scale where's my stock price got it up
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simple math
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value comes from demand so with every single one of you
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buys a few shares and we can get the price of this sucker up in no time
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here's the crazy part
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if we do it at everybody invests just a little bit of money
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price starts to go up
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then
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the algorithms they start to take notice and they start to put me on the big screen
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the sky's the limit
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which means
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that together we can turn a bad investment into a good one by sheer
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force of will
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so as of right now
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I am moving
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Ibis
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from a cell
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to a bar I
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gotta call a triple stole
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the whole holiday kit up rare
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triple bond
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human beings are not computers
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conscience
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we take care of each other it's embedded in our DNA not because
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an equation
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tells us to but because
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we feel it
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in here
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right now I need your help
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do the right thing
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we have to do it together
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I'm talking to every one of you every single
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person that's watching me right now
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I want you to dig as deep as you can and I want you to ask yourself
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what is a life worth to you
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what's my life worth
