Chapter 172 A good relationship formed because of a movie
With a navy blue linen shirt and a black wool coat, John looked at himself in the mirror and smiled.
After getting dressed, he picked out the most low-key Chevrolet from the garage and took Dani towards Manhattan.
Dani is very efficient, and she has already made an appointment with Chris Gardner.
It wasn't long before John drove the Chevrolet to the famous Fifth Avenue.
Parking the car, crossing the street and bypassing the green belt, John took Dani and pushed open the glass door of a café and walked in.
There weren't many people in the café, there were two or three sparsely seated, and John glanced at it, and soon found the person he wanted to see in the corner.
"Chris, you're here!"
John approached and shouted, then pulled out his chair and sat down, with Dani sitting next to him.
"Boss! Chris Gardner saw John get up quickly, because the movement was so large that the chair under him rubbed against the ground quickly and made a creaking sound.
John hurriedly pressed Chris Gardner to sit down, so as not to attract attention.
"This is Dani Miller, my butler, you should be familiar with it!" John said as Chris Gardner sat down.
"Familiar! familiar!" Chris Gardner nodded and hurriedly greeted. "Hello! Miss Miller. ”
"Hello, Mr. Gardner!" said Dani, nodding slightly.
After the two got to know each other, Chris Gardner immediately turned his gaze to John and asked. "Boss, haven't seen you in a few years, how are you doing?"
John nodded. "It's okay, I can eat and sleep. With that, he went straight to the point. "Chris, there's something you need to do this time?"
"What's the matter, boss?" you say. Chris Gardner hurriedly spoke.
"You should know the Syndicate is going to do something to the pound, right?" John asked, looking around and lowering his voice.
"Yes. Chris Gardner nodded. "This matter is led by Soros, Citibank, Xinfu Bank, JP Morgan Bank, and Deutsche Bank as the periphery, and they jointly invested $50 billion to encircle the pound. ”
As the vice president of Morgan Stanley, Chris Gardner was naturally also involved in the meeting to block the pound, so he is one of the few people who knows about it.
John nodded, he knew what Chris Gardner had said. "What I asked you to do has something to do with this, the group wants to short the pound, and I'm going to save the pound, so I hope you can use your authority to block these peripheral funds at that time. ”
The old Morgan's shorting of the pound seems to be letting Soros take tens of billions of dollars, but in fact, the biggest end is the peripheral funds led by four banks, otherwise Soros alone will not be enough to see the previous country.
So if John wants to win this financial war, he must block the 50 billion peripheral funds.
And if you want to block such a large amount of money, you have to help Chris Gardner.
As the vice president of Morgan Stanley, only he can mobilize a huge amount of money into the market in a short period of time to block peripheral funds. Of course, Dimon can mobilize more funds, but John knows that he can't direct the president of Morgan Stanley, so he can only settle for the next best.
"Of course, it's hard for you, so you can choose not to do it. John said it solemnly, not politely. Because once Chris Gardner does this, life will definitely not be easy, and when the time comes, a crime of using the group's funds to obstruct the group's actions will definitely not be able to escape, if he is lucky, the old Morgan will be demoted and retained in his face, and if he is unlucky, he will be directly removed from the outside world, and then he will say goodbye to the financial field permanently and go home for retirement.
Chris Gardner knew the consequences, of course, but he hurriedly replied after John finished speaking. "Boss, I now have a house, a car, a deposit, and an enviable job......"
John didn't know what he meant, but he listened patiently.
"Boss, everything I have now is what you gave me, and without you I wouldn't be where I am today. Chris Gardner said it sincerely, with gratitude in his eyes. "If it weren't for you, I would have starved to death on the streets of New York, or died at the hands of the police.
So this life of mine was given to me by you, and now I am willing to do whatever I can for you, even if I am willing to take myself. ”
Chris Gardner had tears in his eyes, and he would never forget the help the young man in front of him.
At that time, he was very poor, his wife divorced him because he couldn't bear this life, and he was alone with a child, in order to change the status quo of his life, he resolutely quit his job as a medical equipment salesman, and spent 10 months looking for a job as a stockbroker on Wall Street, but he lost his job because the introducer was fired before he could go to work.
During that time, he was so poor that he couldn't live, he didn't even have money to rent a house, so he could only take his children to live on the streets, sleeping in parks and train station toilets every day.
Just when he couldn't hold on and felt that life was not going to happen, he met John in New York, who brought him to Morgan Stanley and gave him a decent job, which gave him and his children a stable home.
Therefore, for the sake of this kindness, he was willing to stand on John's side, even if it cost him a lot.
John nodded, pleased with Chris Gardner's attitude. "Chris, don't take the events of the year to heart, your achievements today are all due to your own efforts, if you really want to say that it has something to do with me, then I just knocked on a door for you. ”
Others may not know, but John knew very well that the black man in front of him would have achieved fame without his help, and he had just advanced the time.
It's just that he didn't expect that a good fate that he had formed casually because of a movie back then is now being used, which makes him have to sigh that life is like a play.
After the two then discussed the issue of blocking the outside funds, John took Dani out of the café.
After the peripheral problems are solved, it can be said that John has won half of this financial war, and the remaining half is naturally to solve Soros.
According to John's memory, Soros will take $15 billion to short the pound, so if he wants to successfully stop Soros, he must have the corresponding funds to enter the market, but at the moment he can raise about $6 billion, which must be added to the gold in the gold train.
The $9 billion funding gap is an astronomical amount for John, the heir in the assessment, but fortunately, he still has enough time to raise it, and he already has a direction.
"Dani, help me meet these three people. John sat in the car and read out three names. "Howard Schultz, Martin Solo, Owen Jacobs. ”