American Fortune Life

Saturday, September 13.

When Andy walked into the lobby of the Federal Reserve Building with his assistants and bodyguards at around nine o'clock in the morning, Alvetrie, who was sitting on the sofa in the rest area, followed up quickly with six or seven people around him.

With a bright and happy smile on his face, Andy asked Al, "Have you finished receiving it?"

"Yes, boss, the Berlin side has already called to notify, and the British side will complete the re-signing of the lease contract early tomorrow morning, and our people will rush to Berlin as soon as possible..."

In the elevator, Alvetrie quickly introduced the situation to Andy. Early this morning, Al took people to the Lehman headquarters, and took away 13 commercial buildings of great value from the other party, almost like a robbery. I believe by now, the news has spread all over Wall Street.

Sure enough, when Andy stepped into the conference room, the CEOs and bosses of the banks all looked at him with complicated and envious eyes, but several people's expressions were very ugly, including Paulson. After all, Andy's behavior For some people, it is very undesirable to see.

"You guys look so ugly, why didn't you sleep well? Tsk tsk, don't work so hard when you're getting old, pay more attention to your body..." Andy sat on the boss chair with a bright smile, and pointed at the few The old fox with an ugly face joked, not paying attention to the other party's gaze.

Paulson looked deeply at Andy and looked at Andy meaningfully for a while. Seeing that he was almost here, he coughed lightly and said in a hoarse voice: "The latest news is that Merrill Lynch is currently negotiating a deal with Bank of America. Bank of America officially withdrew from the acquisition of Lehman, and now only the British Barclays has chosen.

Everyone, I hope to see the results of Lehman's assets accounting today. Anyway, give me a figure! "

The meeting broke up quickly, and the group of bigwigs including Andy had to continue to sit in town, letting their accountants and data analysts work hard.

At around 12:00 noon, the first data finally came out. Lloyd and Andy of Goldman Sachs and three other bank and investment bank CEOs went to the conference room to submit the report. In the conference room, Paulson and Geithner were in charge of conducting the report. collect.

Paulson and Geithner couldn't help frowning slightly looking at the data in the blue write-down form. At this time, the data of other groups were also being sent one after another. Looking at the data, the brows of their two main leaders became even more frowning. tight.

The data shows that everyone has different views on the true value of Lehman, especially the most notorious real estate assets. Almost no figures in each data are different, and each one is lower than the other.

"Is there really $41 billion in cash assets? Or is it $24 billion? Or is it smaller?" Paulson asked in a cold voice as he looked at Lehman CEO Fuld, who was sitting in the boss's chair, with a cold gaze.

And Fuld also seemed to have seen through Paulson's hypocrisy, his eyes were indifferent, and he didn't make any answer. Before that, he had just received a call from Lehman's bankruptcy lawyer Harvey. The other party was very angry on the phone. The representative of the talks with the Federal Reserve was very dissatisfied. The other party had no sincerity in helping them with Lehman, and they kept talking nonsense.

Fuld glanced at Andy Smith, who had been smiling all the time and had a calm expression. Thinking of what the other party said last night, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

"What will happen to Merrill Lynch if we're done?"

Hearing Fuld's cold question, and sitting not far from him was Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly fell into embarrassment.

"You take care of yourselves first! I'm sure I can handle the affairs of AIG and Merrill Lynch." Paulson's complexion changed slightly, he looked at Fuld with cold eyes, then looked around and said, "John is here, talk about Merrill made me feel a little uncomfortable..."

The smile on Andy's face faded, his expression became indifferent, and he looked at Paulson full of sarcasm, but with just a glance, he cast a trace of sympathy on Fore, whose face was flushed and his fists were clenched slightly trembling. De, this guy who is already famous for his arrogance,

He was almost spurted blood by the Chief Financial Officer in a humiliating way.

. . . . . .

The meeting ended in an extremely weird and embarrassing atmosphere. To be honest, Andy felt a little disgusted by Paulson's dislike of Lehman, so he took people away from the Federal Reserve Building as soon as the meeting adjourned.

"Al, what do you think of Paulson?" In the car, Andy asked abruptly, looking at the scenery outside the car window.

Al pushed down his glasses, pondered for a moment and said, "Boss, do you feel that he is not urgent or important to save Lehman?"

Andy didn't speak, just nodded.

"Actually, this is incomprehensible. From three perspectives, we can understand Paulson's thoughts.

First, most of the bonds issued by Lehman were bought by Asia, and some in Europe, but only a few in the United States. The bankruptcy of Lehman allowed Asian countries and other countries to bear the losses of the U.S. economic recession. Partially pass on the losses of the US financial crisis to avoid the burden of the US government's financial crisis liabilities.

The second is to shirk the pressure of public opinion and public pressure from the U.S. government to pay for all closed companies, so as to block the mouths of donkey gangsters from all walks of life in the United States at that time who "used the money of the SHUUI people to save the market".

The third is. . . Objectively, it will eliminate a powerful opponent for Goldman Sachs and MG to compete in the capital market in the future. "

When it came to the third point, Al hesitated, and finally expressed his inner conclusion.

Andy's eyes were deep, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said lightly: "It seems that there are quite a lot of inside stories! Al, do you believe it? After the fall of Lehman, the storm will completely get out of control."

"Of course, so that we have a chance, boss, Lehman must go down, deducting the 1 billion spent this morning, this time we have harvested 13 commercial buildings and 4.2 billion from Lehman, your cash assets are currently up to At $34 billion, we can compete for the tastiest portion!"

Andy nodded, no longer entangled in those grievances, nothing made him happier than the growth of his own wealth, he couldn't help chuckling and said: "This is really just saving the second room, and then I can't save my brother!"

Alvetrie shook his head and laughed, shrugged, noncommittal.

Back home, Ivana, who was wearing a black suspender dress, stepped forward and kissed Andy gently, helped him hang up the suit, then took the tie that Andy had pulled off, and reached out to stop Andy's waist , asked softly: "Is today going well?"

Andy put his arms around Ivana, walked into the living room and said with a smile: "Yes, the handover of the 13 buildings went smoothly. To be honest, it is lucky to be able to win this part of the assets. You don't know, today When I first entered the conference room, those old guys wanted to kill me with their eyes, hehe, especially the two buildings adjacent to Fifth Avenue, 52nd Street and 53rd Street, are absolutely worth the money!"

"Hey--"

Ivana smiled happily, turned around and wrapped her arms around Andy's neck, jumped up, and hung on Andy's body. Andy could only reach out his hand pamperingly, and carried her to the sofa in the living room.

"Boom~giggle, I know you are the best!" Ivana kissed Andy's mouth tremblingly with a smile, eyes full of admiration.

"I will set up a property company to manage and operate these 13 buildings, and then they will be included in the asset list of the Smith Foundation..." Andy sat on the sofa with a smile, watching and hearing his decision, his eyes lit up Ivana put her finger on the tip of her nose.

Ivana will naturally be very happy. As a family foundation, she and Andy's children will be the beneficiaries. In the future, her and Andy's children will also inherit the foundation, that is to say, her children will Truly become a billions of babies born with a golden spoon in their mouths!