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If I learned anything from watching Billions is that the fix is usually in and it is between the guys with lots and lots of money.

What an amazing inside trade -- knowing or forcing the Robinhood App to restrict the large majority of WallStreetBets from buying, and then shorting the hell out of it.

And they will probably get away with it too, which I also learned from watching Billions.

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> learned from watching Billions

You know, it's a TV show, not a graduate level course on capital markets.

It's not a documentary?

While it’s true that it’s a TV show, one of the aspects that makes it interesting is that the many immoral and self serving actions taken by the two main characters are often inspired by real life controversies or cases of financial crime or political corruption. With an attempt at splitting them into the two camps of “corruption outside the system” and “corruption within the system” personified by the two feuding main characters.

I think a lot of it is how things are. Of course a lot of it is over the top for dramatic purposes and everything in the show happens to the same set of characters as is needed in a drama... But the fundamentals I think are spot on.

I can't wait for inevitable Billions episode about Gamestop. Dollar Bill is probably going to lose it :)

Absolutely not, this is fucking insane. Ken Griffin is going to jail.

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