"What am I going to do?!hehe, you have to ask yourselves, what did you do to Lehman Brothers in the first place, and now I'm just going to give you back as usual. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Richard Fored sneered, "How I begged you to get your rescue, but you refused all my requests, you brought it on yourself!"

"Listen, Richard, I have no intention of arguing with you about this, but I must tell you that if you continue to play with fire like this, something unpleasant is likely to happen. Bernanke knew that Richard Fuord's madness at this time was forced by their previous series of actions.

But this does not mean that he will sympathize with or pity Richard, because the world of capital is such a reality, and the US government can tolerate the continued existence of companies like Bear Stearns, because the latter is almost a fraction of the size of Lehman Brothers, and most of its high-quality assets are worth enough to offset government investment.

However, Lehman Brothers' negative equity was once as high as nearly $300 billion, and this figure is expanding every day, and if the federal government comes forward to guarantee, I am afraid that it will invest nearly 100 billion US dollars in guarantees. And that's not all, because Lehman Brothers has a huge amount of junk bonds and bank loans to be repaid each year, and the risk of default is just as prohibitive.

Therefore, after the consortium took a fancy to some of the high-quality assets of about 100 billion US dollars that Lehman Brothers still held in their hands, they wanted to plot, and the Federal Reserve and the federal government pushed the boat with the boat, anyway, the end of Lehman Brothers was already doomed, so it was better to strip off this part of the high-quality assets and use it to rescue other large companies and avoid the intensification of the financial crisis. This is cruel to Lehman Brothers, but for the capitalists, it is a good way to get the best of both worlds.

"Are you threatening me?" Richard Ford has come to this point, he has lost almost everything, Lehman Brothers Investment Bank has grown in his hands to this point, just like his children, the feelings and costs paid in it, outsiders can hardly imagine, besides, he is over sixty years old, he doesn't care what the world will be tomorrow, he just knows that he has no choice.

Bernanke said in a rare and explicit way, "If you don't stop this damn everything, then I promise, you won't end well." Those people will tear you to shreds. ”

Hearing this, Richard said-for-tat, "Then let them come and see who dies first." To tell you the truth, the evidence I have in my hands is by no means like this, and if anything happens to me, then let the whole banking industry be buried with me. ”

Hearing this threatening words, Bernanke frowned, and he suddenly realized that he seemed to underestimate this seemingly desperate financial tycoon, after all, the other party has been in this top circle for nearly forty years and has not fallen, who knows what kind of hole cards he has hidden in his hand.

If the other party is allowed to tear his face and die together, then it will be a violent impact on the entire superstructure, thinking of this, Bernanke can only say cautiously, "What do you want?" Okay, damn it, you can put forward your terms, and I will try to communicate with them, but I can't guarantee what they will agree to." ”

"No, I just want my Lehman brothers, and I'm not interested in anything else that doesn't belong to me. Richard Fored said coldly, "Besides, do you think that at my level, I still lack money? Even if the company goes bankrupt, I can still live my life of spending all my time, but I just want to tell you, don't make a decision to any old man, although we have no future, at least it is still in my hands for now." ”

"Well, then, I'll pass this on to them, good luck!" Hearing this, Bernanke, who knew that there was no room for redemption, hung up the phone bluntly, and after thinking about it for a minute, he dialed Rockefeller Walker's personal phone.

Walker was also frowning at this time, and if he was a giant in the American economic world, and the entire financial circle would shake if he sneezed, it would be true. But he is not a god after all, even if he has more than ten trillion dollars of total assets in his hands, he can't influence an old man who has no way back.

After receiving Bernanke's call, he immediately answered, "I hope to hear a little good news from you, because all I received in the morning was bad news." ”

Bernanke smiled wryly, "I'm sorry, sir, I have to regret to inform you that Richard is crazy, and he is bent on pulling Citigroup and Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy." ”

"Damn, you can't even check him. Tell him to stop, or I'll use all my power to get revenge on him. "Walker doesn't care about the rules of the battle in the upper circles anymore, he just wants it to settle now, and if Richard stubbornly wants to die together, then let him go to God right away.

But Bernanke only used one sentence to extinguish all his impulses.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid you can't do that! Because we don't know how much evidence he has against us, and if we can't keep him safe enough to make him public, then we can book a luxury room in the federal prison in advance." ”

"How much does he know?" Walker roared in annoyance, he had never had such an embarrassed day, obviously he had more than ten times more resources in his hands than Richard, but now he couldn't do anything, he could only watch his assets dwindle every minute and every second, this torment made him almost mad with anger.

Bernanke hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid it's enough to reshuffle the entire upper circle." You know, he's been in this circle longer than you and me, so I think it's best not to get to that point unless you're ready to die together. ”

"Isn't there any other way?What does he want, money? I have it, let him make a price!" Walker tugged at his collar, but it was still to no avail, his breathing became more and more rapid, as if some invisible force was tightening his neck, making it impossible for him to breathe fresh air.

Bernanke sighed, "He has a big appetite, he just wants his Lehman brothers." And according to the Fed's most optimistic estimates, if we want to ensure that Lehman Brothers does not go bankrupt, it will need at least $100 billion or more, you know! Our government will never agree to such a huge sum of money to bail out a private company unless the Rockefeller consortium is willing to provide this money. ”

"Impossible!"

When he heard this astronomical figure, Walker's first reaction was that the world was crazy, or Bernanke was crazy, and he paid 100 billion dollars to save him for a former partner who didn't know what to call without getting any benefits, do you think the Rockefeller consortium was printing money?

Not to mention that he agreed to it with a bad brain, this proposal will also be ruthlessly rejected by the top management of the Rockefeller consortium, because Rockefeller will definitely not tolerate the coercion of such conditions.

"That means Citigroup has to come up with strong facts to buy back investor confidence. Bernanke suddenly felt that his role as an intermediary was gradually losing its role, and he might have to consider reuniting.

Walker muttered a few curses before slamming his phone to the ground.

I forgot to mention it, this is his morning, oh no~ It is the third mobile phone he dropped in thirty minutes, but fortunately, Rockefeller has nothing else, just a lot of money, a special blueberry mobile phone is only more than 8,000 dollars, as long as he is happy, dropping 10,000 units is as simple as buying a bun for ordinary people.

"Sir, perhaps we should really consider the matter of peace, because we can't hold it anymore. Seeing this, Sandywell, who was waiting anxiously on the side, immediately stepped forward and said anxiously, "In the past half hour, almost all Citigroup's business locations around the world have suffered a crazy run, and on average, we have suffered the loss of 2,600 customers every minute, if this situation is maintained for more than a week, then Citi has no need to exist." ”

What Sandwell said is the truth, after the inside story was exposed, almost all Citi users around the world rushed to the nearest Citi business location as soon as possible, and no one was willing to use the online inter-bank transfer function, because they were worried that Citi would not be able to transfer the money out in the first place. Once it is delayed for a long time, it is likely that Citigroup's funds will be taken out by others first, and what will be left to them at that time is a bank figure like waste paper, which can only be seen, not used.

"Damn, can't even you do it? I spend more than 100 million a year, is it at this time to shirk responsibility and ask what to do?!" Walker is now anxious, and he has this attitude when he catches everyone, and he will first give him a head and face training, and then, there will be no more.

"Mr. Walker, Mr. Paul has arrived, and he wants to see you immediately. ”

As he angrily reprimanded, the door to the $35 million decorated luxury apartment office was pushed open, an assistant said hurriedly.

"Let him in. ”

"Walker, how can this be?"

Walker was waving his hand to ask the assistant to invite Paul George in, and the latter rushed straight in, looking at the agile appearance, which did not seem at all like what his fat body in his sixties could do.

"George, you've come just in time, and now only you can figure out how to crack it. "Didn't care that George Paul was uninvited, Walker was already overwhelmed by a series of blows, and he desperately needed someone who could come up with a solution to help him, and George Paul was such a person in his eyes.

George really didn't disappoint him, and as soon as he heard this, he immediately said, "Before I came, I had already discussed a preliminary plan with the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy, that the Bank of New York would contribute $30 billion, and we would contribute $20 billion, and use a huge amount of $50 billion to immediately invest in the stock market and the stock market to avoid a stock market crash." I also ask Mr. Sandywell to convene a press conference immediately, and in any case, it is necessary to restore our image before the public. ”

Walker glanced at Sandywell and asked him directly, "How's it going, can it work?"

The latter smiled wryly, "I'm afraid I don't have the ability, because the details of the data released by Lehman Brothers are too detailed for me to strongly refute any of them, unless we can come up with the strongest evidence." This is precisely what scares us the most, because it's all true. ”

"Now it's not a question of whether it's true or not, even if it's full of lies, you have to stabilize investors, as long as you can convince them that we're still trying, and the credit accumulated over so many years is enough to make a lot of investors change their minds. At the same time, disseminating false news about malicious competition and speculation in the market to confuse investors, as long as a small number of them believe that someone is initiating a malicious short sale of Citigroup shares, then the huge profits contained in it will make them take risks. Paul George knows these things very well, and obviously has done a lot of similar things in the past.

Walker finally had a reliable suggestion, so he nodded at the executives of Citigroup First Group who were surrounded by him, and the latter immediately went down to order preparations.

"This plan is very good, if we combine it with our $50 billion bailout fund, then the entire stock market will be confused, driven by profits, Citi's stock price will even have a temporary reversal, and the maximum impact is $50. "Sandywell was actually ready to get out of the way, but the problem now was that he couldn't make the transition in a fraction of a moment's time.

The general environment does not allow it, and Rockefeller will definitely not allow it, but the severity of the crisis he perceives from it will even end up putting him in prison.

This is not the most terrifying, because from this series of abnormal actions, he vaguely saw the shadow of Li Mubai when he made a move against the Samsung Group, and the intelligence collection work has been so meticulous that I am afraid that only that Oriental boy has the strength.

The information that has been disclosed, I am afraid that it is only the tip of the iceberg, as long as the other party has a little deeper, it is enough to send the entire Citigroup into a situation of no return, and when the time comes, as the chairman of the board of directors and CEO of the company, he will inevitably be sued by all investors, and at the lightest is a prison sentence of more than ten years. As for the Rockefeller consortium, he, the former chairman of the Voyagers Group, is just a middle-level person, a middle-level who has caused the consortium to lose hundreds of billions of dollars in fixed assets, and the best result is probably to shoulder all the blame and then die.

"Why don't you hurry up and get down to work?" Displeased with Sandywell's somewhat perfunctory attitude, Walker didn't have a good face when he spoke.