American Fortune Life

Desperately, by the end of the day, neither Bank of America nor Barclays had shown further interest in the deal, and the government had no power to inject capital. Lehman only has the last 2 billion US dollars in cash left. If no countermeasures are found by the weekend, what will be left next Monday will be a corpse.

And all the bigwigs in the Federal Reserve Building knew that Bank of America, the selected acquirer, had no interest in Lehman from the beginning to the end, and they were flirting with Merrill Lynch.

However, what makes everyone feel funny is that although Merrill Lynch tried its best to arouse Bank of America's interest in mergers and acquisitions, it also concealed it, as if it really stayed in the boudoir and never left the cabinet. The top one is DANG's wife, and the bottom KU is so meowing that I don't know how many times I lost, and I still pretend to be innocent.

Paulson and Geithner understood that the only people interested in acquiring Lehman were the British. To be on the safe side, when Andy, who was stretching and leading someone standing in front of the elevator, was stopped by Paulson's chief of staff, Andy looked at the time, frowned and said, "It's already 10:30, I don't want to go to bed anymore, let's talk about something tomorrow."

Hamilton stepped forward with a wry smile on his face. After whispering in Andy's ear a few times, Andy rolled his eyes and said to Al beside him, "Let's go and have a look. Let's go back and rest first..."

Led by Hamilton, Andy and Al walked into the conference room, and saw the four people present, Paulson, Geithner, Lehman CEO Fuld, and Warren Buffett, fighting with the four of them indifferently. After saying hello, he sat down.

Listening to the sincere words of Paulson and Geithner, I hope that they can invest in Lehman, and Fuld, who is arrogant, also looks sad, and the words are touching, and the pleadings are inspiring. Buffett and Andy agree Looking at each other, they both saw treachery and defense in each other's eyes.

Both of them coveted some of Lehman's businesses and assets, but neither of them wanted to speak first, and the meeting room fell into silence for a while.

It was Fuld who was already anxious to break the silence first, but the price he offered made both Andy and Buffett lose interest in continuing the conversation.

$42 billion! Lehman took it home. . .

Andy really wanted to sneer at him, but now was not the time to be happy for a while. If he wanted to reap the benefits, he needed the three people in front of him to open the door.

"21 billion, if you agree, I will inject capital, but you need to use some assets and business as collateral..."

The stinky and shameless Buffett started talking blah blah blah, and the lion was praising him all the time. Damn, what kind of preferred stock? The demands he made were extremely harsh. You can understand the old rascal by looking at Fuld's darkened face. Buffett's ruthlessness.

But Andy has been calmly watching the old gangster kill Lehman with a knife. He didn't have the idea of ​​annexing the whole Lehman.

"Mr. Smith, what about you?" Geithner couldn't help asking when he saw that Fuld and Buffett were about to talk, hoping to ease the tense atmosphere.

Andy shrugged, and said with a helpless expression: "I can't eat, I can't afford that much money at all..."

"We at the Federal Reserve are willing to guarantee you..."

Andy rolled his eyes, squinted at Geithner and said lightly: "I have too much debt, I can't sleep!"

"Ahem..."

A few people in the conference room were coughed lightly by Andy's words, and then Andy looked like he had nothing to do with himself, and stopped talking, and didn't make him wait for a long time, 10 minutes Finally, when the conversation broke down completely, Andy shrugged his shoulders to greet him, stood up and patted Pigu, and walked out of the conference room first.

After taking Al downstairs, Andy said to Al: "Get in my car, don't want to leave in a hurry..."

Al narrowed his eyes slightly, nodded, and sat in the spacious SUV with Andy. He didn't wait long,

I saw the tall but exhausted Fuld appearing at the entrance of the building with someone.

"Kenny, go get Mr. Fuld over here, just say there's something I want to talk to him about."

After Kenny nodded, he opened the car door and walked up quickly. Through the car window, Andy saw Fuld's eyes cast over, lowered the car window, Andy waved his hand with a smile, and then, Fuld He walked over quickly and got into the car.

"Andy, what do you want, just say it!"

Andy was not upset by Fuld's direct and blunt words, but said with a smile: "I heard that you only have $2 billion in cash in your account? I don't know if you have sold some real estate for a while. Thoughts to get through the storm?"

Fuld smiled self-deprecatingly, then frowned and said, "Please continue."

"Hehe, pay 1 billion in cash in one lump sum, and I'll buy those 13 buildings in your hands!"

Fuld's complexion was ashen, and he looked at Andy with a smile on his face with cold eyes, almost gnashing his teeth and said: "They have a market value of 4.2 billion!"

"That was 2006, now it's 2008, Fuld, now and then, with this 1 billion, maybe you can hold on for a while, maybe it will really turn around. What Lehman needs most now is persistence. Time, what do you think?"

"Impossible! You are extorting, even if we mortgage the bank loan, it will be more than this amount..."

"Hehe, is that right? Will the bank give you a loan from Lehman?" Andy leaned on the car seat, with his mouth slightly raised, and said with a sneer, his eyes were piercing.

"Fuld, don't lie to yourself, the whole world is waiting for the moment when you fall, once Lehman Corporation announces its bankruptcy, Wall Street, Europeans, financial companies with foot basins will be like vultures to see the just fallen The dead bodies seem to swarm up, snatching the assets of various useful "parts and organs" on Lehman's corpse at a price much lower than the original bid.

You count on Paulson and the Federal Reserve to save you, hehe, do you think you are Goldman Sachs or MG Stanley? You Lehman, a grassroots nouveau riche, still want to be treated like the descendants of nobles, you are thinking too much! "

Fuld's eyes were wide open, his face flushed red with anger, his fists clenched tightly, his lips trembling slightly, looking at this handsome young man who looked vicious and cruel at this moment, he wished he could pounce on him and give him two punches .

"call--"

Fuld was like a deflated ball, his energy seemed to be taken away at once, and he said to himself with a wry smile: "Although you are cruel, you are the only one who told the truth, they Can't wait for Lehman to go bankrupt... It's ridiculous that the board of directors still wants to save the opponents who wanted to kill them..."

As he said that, Fuld opened the car door and got out of the car with a stooped figure. Andy just narrowed his eyes slightly, and didn't call out to stop the other party again, and waited silently.

After the distraught Fuld took a step, his pale face under the streetlight showed a complex and incomprehensible expression, and he looked back at Andy, who had lowered the car window and looked at him silently, and said in a trembling voice: "Tomorrow morning at 8:30, No expiration date..."

"drive!"

The corners of Andy's mouth turned up, and when the car window was raised, the smile on his face became brighter, while Al just took off his glasses, slowly wiped them with a handkerchief, and said lightly: "Boss, we are going to take action now." It's not too early, it might be cheaper when they go into liquidation."

"For real estate worth 40 billion yuan, I'm only interested in these 13 commercial buildings, and I don't want the rest. The key is that these 13 buildings are concentrated in London, Berlin, New York, and San Francisco. Hehe, when the time comes, they will go bankrupt and liquidate At that time, do you think the bankruptcy consulting firm will be spun off and sold to me?

Those vultures will not give up the opportunity to earn high commissions, so this is a rare opportunity. Tomorrow, you will personally handle this matter and buy it in the name of Gaia Corporation! "Andy looked at Al and ordered.