Chapter 299: Buffett's Crisis
After two more days, John took care of IBM and left the small town of Armonke with Ariana and Dani towards Los Angeles.
"Brother JK, you said you would take me out for a trip when you arrived in Los Angeles, don't forget. ”
Ariana was happy all the way, she was almost bored at IBM, and now she is finally free.
"I remember, I won't forget. John nodded, Ariana was very well-behaved during this time, so he would also keep his promise.
"I'll take you to the Walk of Fame then. John suggested.
"Don't ...... No, it's a place where only outsiders will check in. Ariana's little head shook like a rattle.
"Then I'll take you to Warner World. ”
"No, it's for kids. ”
"And I'll take you to Santa Monica to bask in the sun?"
"No, what's there to do at the beach, my family lives by the sea. ”
"Then I'll take you shopping in Beverly Hills. ”
"Well, this can be had. ”
Ariana finally nodded when she heard the shopping, and continued, "I still have a lot of good food." ”
"Okay. ”
John simply agreed, as long as Ariana didn't cause him trouble, shopping and eating were minor problems.
After seeing John's promise, Ariana stretched her body forward beautifully, and whispered to Dani, who was sitting in the front row, where to go shopping, where to eat, and John on the side saw that Ariana was finally calmed down, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, the plane still has a few hours to go to Los Angeles, he wants to have a good rest.
However, when Ariana was happily discussing the game plan with Dani, there was one person who was very unhappy, and that was Warren Buffett.
Originally, he should have been very happy during this time, preparing billions of dollars to buy IBM stocks, and now he has collected 1.1 billion dollars, and he will be able to collect them all in another week.
But before the victory horn sounded, he fell into a panic, because when he checked the company's stock market half an hour ago, he suddenly found that several companies were buying shares of their own company.
Originally, it was normal for the stock market to buy and sell, but what made him panic was that these companies secretly acquired Berkshire Hathaway shares during this period, and the least one received one percent of the shares, and the most one closed almost three percent, and the total of several companies closed almost 11 percent.
Eleven percent, which is the second largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway.
Warren Buffett himself owns 36 percent of Berkshire Hathaway.
What's more, these companies are still buying Berkshire Hathaway's shares, and at this rate, it won't be long before he, the company's largest shareholder, will become the second largest shareholder, and Berkshire Hathaway will be out of his control.
"Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Fidelity, Vanguard. ”
Buffett looked at the names of these companies, his brows tightened, in addition to Goldman Sachs, these companies are more powerful, followed by Fidelity and Vanguard, as for Blackstone and Blackrock, these are just two small companies, but just one Goldman Sachs is enough for him to have a headache, not to mention five companies.
Looking at the names of these companies, Buffett smelled a crisis, which was his sense of smell exercised by years of galloping in the stock market, but this crisis was unprecedented, bigger than he had encountered before.
It can be said that if he doesn't deal with it well, his ship will capsize at any time.
How to get through this crisis has become his most important thing now.
He has thought of many anti-takeover strategies, such as the poison pill plan, such as amending the company's articles of association, such as the golden parachute plan, such as the white guard, but he has not come up with the best strategy after thinking about it.
As a stock market tycoon, Warren Buffett understands better than ordinary people that in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is a joke, and there is no example of winning more with less in the asset fight.
What's more, the combined strength of the five companies is much bigger than Berkshire Hathaway, and it can be said that people can stone Berkshire Hathaway with just out of money, how can this be played.
But even so, Buffett will not admit defeat, Berkshire Hathaway is the work of his life, and he will fight hard.
When death comes, people can often burst out with a strong desire to survive, Buffett exploded, of course, not in strength, but in intelligence, he looked at the names of these companies, and some connections suddenly appeared in his mind.
Goldman Sachs, the world's top investment bank, laymen think that it and Morgan Stanley are mortal enemies, but insiders know that Goldman Sachs is actually a Morgan company, one internal and one external, just like CAI and FBI.
Pioneer, Fidelity, and Morgan's fund companies, one is the world's first, the other is the world's second, and the assets under management are as high as trillions of dollars, and these two companies alone are enough for Buffett to drink a pot.
Blackstone, an independent alternative asset management institution established in 1985, is a small company in the eyes of outsiders, but Buffett knows that this is also a Morgan company, and the first money is to help Sony buy Columbia for $2 billion.
Black Rock Company, a listed investment management company established by the Morgan family in 1976, although it is not as powerful as Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, and Vanguard, it has already shown the posture of a strong man, and it is believed that it will not be long before it will become another financial predator in New York.
Wait, after Buffett thought about these companies, he suddenly realized in his heart that the bosses of these companies are all Morgan, and the boss of IBM is also Morgan, and he finally knows who he has offended.
During this time, he vigorously acquired shares in IBM.
So it's clear that he's offended the Morgans.
This result makes Buffett not even desperate, if he can fight in the face of five companies before, then in the face of the Morgan family, he is not even qualified to fight, the Morgan family, the American financial tycoon, the world's creditor, in front of this giant he is not even a primary school student, at most a newborn baby, people want to kill him, even do not have to stretch out his fingers.
What to do?
Offending the Morgan family is definitely not a good thing, what Buffett has to do now is to calm the anger of the Morgan family, otherwise the company will really lose.
If he wants to calm the anger of the Morgan family, Buffett must first figure out who he has offended, the Morgan family is a big family with many members, but he knows that the person he offended must be a member of the Morgan family, otherwise it would be impossible to send so many companies to deal with him.
After thinking about the problem, Buffett picked up the phone and dialed, first to determine who it was, and then to find a way to remedy it.