American Fortune Life

Saturday, 13 September.

When Andy walked into the lobby of the Fed building with his little assistants and bodyguards around 9 a.m., Alvitelli, sitting on the couch in the sitting area, quickly followed along with six or seven people.

Andy had a happy smile on his face and asked Al, “Are you done? ”

“Yes, boss, the Berlin side has called to inform that the UK side will complete the renegotiation of the lease early tomorrow morning and our people will be on their way to Berlin as soon as possible... ”

In the elevator, Alvitelli briefed Andy quickly, and this morning Al took a man to Lehman headquarters, almost like robbing a commercial building that typically took 13 items from each other, believing that by now the news had spread all over Wall Street.

Sure enough, when Andy walked into the conference room, the CEOs and Bigs of the banks looked at him with a complex and enviable look, and several people looked very ugly, including Paulson, after all, Andy's behavior was something that some people very much didn't want to see.

“How many of you look so ugly that you haven't slept? Tsk, when you're older, don't be so desperate, pay more attention to your body...” Andy sat on the boss's chair with a brilliant smile, twirling at a few ugly old foxes, not paying any attention to each other's eyes.

Paulson looked deep, meaning that after a long look at Andy, he looked almost alike, coughed softly, and sounded a little dull: “The latest news is that Merrill Forest Securities is currently negotiating a deal with the Bank of America. Bank of America officially withdrew from Lehman's takeover and now only Barclays UK has a choice.

Gentlemen, I hope to see the results of Lehman's asset accounting today. Anyway, give me a number! ”

The meeting soon broke up, and the big men, including Andy, had to continue to sit in town and let their accountants and data analysts work diligently.

At around 12 noon, the first data came out, and Lloyd and Andy of Goldman Sachs, along with three other CEOs of banks and investment, went to the conference room, where Paulson and Gaitner were responsible for collecting them.

Paulson and Gaithner looked at the blue subtracted tabular data without slight frowning, and at this point, the other groups of data were also sent in, looking at the data, and the frowning of their two main leaders became tighter.

The data show that there are different perceptions of the true value of Lehman, especially the most notorious real estate assets, and that almost none of the figures in each data are different and one is lower than the other.

“Do you really have $41 billion in cash assets? Or 24 billion? Or smaller?” Paulson looked cold in the boss's chair and some of Lehman's CEO Fold coldly asked.

And Fold seemed to have seen through Paulson's pseudo-dummy, indifferent eyes, and had not responded, until he had just received a call from Lehman bankruptcy attorney Harvey, who was very angry on the phone and very dissatisfied with the representative of the talks with the Fed, who had no sincerity to help them, Lehman, and had been bullshitting.

Fold glanced at Andy Smith with a smile all the way around his mouth, thinking of what he had said last night, he couldn't help but mourn.

“What happens to Merrill Woods when we're done? ”

Hearing Fold's frigid questioning and sitting not far from him was Merrill Lynch CEO Johnson, the atmosphere in the conference room was awkward.

“Mind your own business! I'm sure I can handle the American International Group and Merrill Woods.” Paulson's face changed slightly, his eyes looked cold at Fold, and then he looked around for a week and said, "John is right here, talking about Merrill makes me feel a little uncomfortable... ”

Andy's smile converged, his expression became indifferent, his eyes filled with ridicule at Paulson's, but just a glance, he cast a little sympathetic gaze on his blushing face, his fists falsely gripped slightly trembling Ford, a guy who was already famous for his arrogance, almost bled in a humiliating way by the wealthy adult.

The meeting ended in a bizarre and awkward atmosphere, and Andy was somewhat disgusted that Paulson almost tore his face off to see Lehman, to be honest, so he took someone out of the Fed building at the very beginning of the adjournment.

“Al, what do you think of Paulson?” In the car, Andy looked out the window and asked suddenly.

Al pushed down his glasses and, after a moment of silence, said: "Boss, do you feel that he doesn't take saving Lehman very seriously? ”

Andy didn't talk, just nodded.

“It's not understandable that Paulson's ideas can be understood in three ways.

First, most of the bonds issued by Lehman have been bought in Asia and some in Europe, with few in the United States alone. Lehman's bankruptcy allows Asian and other countries to bear the losses of the economic downturn in the United States. The losses of the United States financial crisis can be partly passed on to avoid the strain on the United States Government's liabilities for the financial crisis.

The second is to put aside the public and public pressure of the United States Government to pay for all the failing companies, thereby blocking the mouth of the then "Save the Market with the Money of the SHUI" donkey party from all walks of American society.

And the third is... Objectively, it removes a powerful opponent for Goldman Sachs and MG to compete in the capital market in the future. ”

Speaking of the third point, Al hesitated and finally came to his inner conclusion.

Andy's eyes were deep and his mouth was grinning, and he said softly: "Looks like there's a lot going on in there! Al, can you believe this? When Lehman falls, the storm will be completely out of control. ”

“Of course, that's how we get the chance, boss, Lehman has to go down, minus the billion we spent this morning, this time we got 13 commercial buildings and $4.2 billion from Lehman, your cash assets now reach $34 billion and we have the ability to compete for the best part! ”

Andy nodded and stopped bothering those upsets. Nothing made him happier than his own wealth growth. He couldn't help but smile: “This really just saved the second room and couldn't save the brothers! ”

Alvitelli shook her head and shrugged her shoulders.

Back home, Ivana in the black camisole skirt gently went up and Andy kissed Wen, helped him hang his suit, then took the tie that Andy pulled down, reached over Andy's waist, and softly asked, "How was it today? ”

Andy hugged Ivana and laughed as he walked into the living room: "Yes, the 13 buildings handed over smoothly. Seriously, it was lucky to have this part of the asset. You know, when I first got into the conference room this morning, those old guys were dying to kill me with their eyes. Huh, especially those two buildings on 52nd and 53rd Avenues, next to Fifth Avenue, they were absolutely worth it! ”

“Hey...”

Ivana smiled happily and turned around Andy's neck, jumping up and hanging on Andy, who could only spoil her hand and hold onto the sofa in the living room.

“Oh, I knew you were the best!” Ivana's laughing flowers trembled on Andy's mouth, her eyes full of admiration.

“I will set up a property company to manage operations exclusively in these 13 buildings, which will then be included in the Smith Foundation's assets list...” Andy sat on the couch laughing, listening to his decision, her eyes glowing, Ivana, and her fingers sticking out on her nose tip.

Ivana will naturally be very happy that, as a family foundation, she herself and Andy's children will be the beneficiaries, and in the future, she and Andy's children will inherit the foundation, meaning that her children will truly be billions of babies born with gold spoons!