American Fortune Life

"Lehman's new company, Rei, is full of bombs filled with nuclear waste that can explode at any time ..."

"Fuld is an idiot. They are asking too much, scaring the Korean away. His reputation is damaged, and he may be forced to retreat internally ..."

"Lehman's desperate job is to kick nearly $ 60 billion in real estate out of the house. Who will be the unlucky one to take over?"

When all kinds of true and false news spread on Wall Street, with the help of others, on the third day of Andy Smith's return to New York, on September 1st, Lehman's stock price ushered in. After another dive, it plunged more than 40%, from $ 12.4 to $ 8.78.

But just in this day, 2 billion funds were invested, and 10% leverage was used to hedge the short of Lehman's Gaia Company, and the account had more than 500 million US dollars in profits, which is a huge profit, even if it is not bad Andy also laughed happily.

Lehman Eo Fold, who had been negotiating with the Bangko Development Bank in Seoul, had to rush back to New York by private jet overnight to hold an emergency meeting to deal with diving stock prices and clarify various rumors and rumors.

It is just that the capital market that has lost confidence, even if there is no crisis within Lehman, will be dragged down by market panic, not to mention that it is already in peril and stands on the edge of bankruptcy.

Lehman Building on Garden Avenue in Manhattan, just returned to the office, Fuld started calling all his "good friends" to "sell phones" and was forced to help, Lehman was ready to start batching Selling assets.

Fuld's first phone call to his old boss and friend Blackstone Group's eo, Black Rock to Soros, Buffett, and Bank of America, Barclays, Kay Investment ... for everyone who can think of Fuld.

In the end, Fuld called the Fed and Treasury Secretary Paulson.

Paulson answered the phone, and in his office overlooking the White House, cursed with a somber grimace: "It's a bunch of **** who should go to hell!"

Paulson was originally anxious about being taken over by the two bedrooms. Although it went well, his finance minister was fighting alone in this matter, and he orally supported his Bernanke and Geithner in 100%. Have refused to join his war room.

Although they feel guilty of rejecting Paulson, in fact, both Bernanke and Geithner have a certain aversion to this plan, even nausea. In their opinion, they should not use the money of Shui people. Come to help the two houses, let them live on their own, as for the hysteria of creditor countries such as heaven, feet, Russia, let them die!

Now, the two bedrooms have n’t landed yet, Lehman Brothers is about to die again. This group of **** guys are almost outright saying, “Hey, the government is going to help us, otherwise we ’re finished, but the United States The financial system really collapsed ... "

Although he hated gritting his teeth, Paulson, the captain of the fire, sighed helplessly, took a few deep breaths, picked up the phone, and called out.

Warren Buffett, a legendary value investor, is sitting in the office of Berkshire Hathaway's headquarters in Omaha, working at his desk on a simple wooden desk used by his father, while drinking a cherry flavor Ecola.

Jingle Bell

Warren Buffett glanced at the phone, put down Coke, and picked up the microphone.

"Warren, I'm Paulson. How are you? I'm ..."

"Hello." Buffett greeted him in a trustworthy and friendly tone.

Paulson murmured a few words. It sounded like a normal greeting call, but in fact he knew he was walking between the status of supervisor and dealmaker. He quickly brought the topic to the issue facing Lehman.

"If you can get a shot, your name alone will give the market a lot of confidence," Paulson said. He carefully selected the wording and said politely that he would not provide a guarantee for Lehman.

In fact, Buffett has heard many years ago that as the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Paulson refused to deal with companies he thought were too aggressive in terms of investment or accounts.

Many years of friendship have made Buffett very familiar with Paulson's rules of conduct. He is a trustworthy person, and if he really wants to do something eagerly, he will say it outright.

Buffett knew that Paulson was not very urgent to help Lehman Brothers, so he smiled and said, "Lehman has too many problems. I refused to invest in March, and Fuld That financing was a success. I used my reputation without my knowledge. I won't trust such people anymore, so sorry ... "

"Ah ..." Paulson twitched a few times, and then sighed, he knew the result of the call would be like this.

Buffett pushed his rimmed glasses with his mouth slightly tilted, and said, "Why don't you ask Andy, maybe he's interested and maybe not."

Hearing Andy's name, Paulson's entire face turned hot, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Behind the collapse of Lehman's stock price, Gaia is most likely to lead. Do you think he will try to save Lehman?"

"Hehe, Paulson, my old friend, it seems that you don't know Andy Smith, listen to my advice, call him, maybe there are unexpected gains, maybe you know, before, he was in Korea but He spent a lot of money and bought a lot of commercial land. Perhaps Lehman's real estate has already attracted his interest. "

"You mean he wants to dip the real estate market?" Paulson's eyes lightened slightly and he couldn't help but eagerly asked.

"It may not be impossible. His strategic layout is very interesting. It seems that he is not very interested in the financial market, but rather prefers industry. However, to deal with him, huh, to be ready to be killed, Lehman ... "Warren Buffett has always been paying attention to Andy Smith. After all, Andy's rise is so wicked that it doesn't work if he doesn't pay attention.

"Well, I'll call him in a moment ..." Paulson wouldn't care how Lehman was slaughtered by Andy. As the treasurer, he could do his best to match Lehman, and whoever took advantage At a loss, that was not his consideration, he just wanted the market to remain stable.

When Andy received a call from Paulson, he was lying in the lounge behind the office of Newsweek Building and had a great nap. Blake and his braid girl Lullana.

The little assistant who was awakened by the phone reached out and handed it to Andy, who had no sleepiness, and slowly sat up and leaned on the pillow to pick up the phone.

Lulana, who was previously under the care of Andy, was not affected at all, and she continued to fall asleep. The little assistant opened the silk blanket, picked up the robe on one side, put it on, and made coffee for the devil.

Listening to the words on Paulson's phone, Andy yawned and said with lack of interest: "Well, sir, I am very grateful for such a good thing, you can think of me, even if you disturb me Lunch break, but sorry, it's not the time to make a bottom, and I don't like Dick Fuld, so let them die!

yawn

Is there anything else, Mr Treasurer? I need to take a bath to wake up ... "

Andy ignored Paulson's wry smile, and hung up the phone after chatting casually, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth. In fact, the direct cause of Lehman's failure was to exclude all conspiracy theories. The consensus in Wall Street is Lehman, now Eo Dick Fold, has a very bad reputation in the industry, and Wall Street feels arrogant. So almost everyone didn't save him when Lehman was about to fall. More people choose to step on a few feet.