Volume 1 Japan Chapter 27 The Lost Decade (3)
Junior Comic Building, President's Office.
"Hey~ Hello! I'm Jerry! May I ask who it is~Aha~ It turned out to be Steve. Mr. Jobs! Don't get excited, don't get excited~ Say something slowly~ Hey, do you need to yell like this~ You're about to burst my eardrums~ You bastard~ What~ You blame me for poaching your people? Do I need to do any of these things? Do you need it? John. Russell and Etter. Cattermor left Pixar? What's the matter with me? They joined Cofilm? Okay~ Maybe it really has something to do with me! But Mr. Jobs, you can't blame me just because they left Pixar and joined Cofilm! In fact, I didn't instigate them! I'd never do anything like digging corners! I used "The Lion King" as bait to trick them over? John. Russell and Etter. Both of the Cattermor guys are already adults, can I instigate them? Would you like to clear your mind, Mr. Jobs! …… All right! Go ahead! What do you want to do with all this nonsense? Sell me Pixar? Now that I have Cofilm, what else do I need from Pixar? $5000W? Come on! I don't need to! You say my company needs a Pixar patent? Wait a minute, maybe I should give Alvey a call! ”
Jerry hung up the phone with a grin, and then a phone hung up to Cofilm, "Hey~ Hello! Help me call Alway over to answer the phone and say the boss is looking for him! Alve? Good job, boy! Did Mr. Russell sign a contract with Mr. Cattermole? Very good! Well done, I've decided to give you a raise! hahahaha! By the way, Alvey, if I buy Pixar, will it be a big help to Cofilm? Got it, Pixar has multiple patents that we need, right? Understood! Then don't be busy arranging the positions of Mr. Russell and Mr. Cattermor for the time being! Well, that's it, grab the time, it's been more than two years, and "The Lion King" hasn't been finished yet! Okay, okay~ I see, it's two, two! Every time you use this as an excuse! Anyway, hurry up! ”
In 1990, NEXT, which was completely unable to open the market, was on the verge of financial crisis. When Jobs wanted to cut Pixar's animation department, Russell and Cattermole, who had been instigated by Alwei for a long time, finally decided to leave Pixar and switch to Cofilm. This makes Steve. Jobs consciously found a very good springboard, at least he felt that selling Pixar at this time would be a good choice! Adding up to $80 million before and after, the $1,000W investment five years ago finally got such a result, although it eventually changed hands, but for Steve. As far as Jobs is concerned, he is still satisfied with this result!
After instructing Bill of JR Investment. Miller touches Steve. Jobs, after letting him complete the acquisition of Pixar, Jerry hung up the phone!
On Christmas Day on December 25, 1989, the governor of the Bank of Japan, "Heisei Demon" Mie Noyasu, announced that the loan interest rate would be raised to 2.5%, and at the same time announced that the bubble would be burst! The Tokyo stock market fell heavily from 38,915 points to 37,000 points. In February 1990, the Tokyo stock market continued to fall to 34,000 points, but Mie Noyasu announced that the decline still fell short of the central bank's target. In April 1990, Mie Noyasu raised interest rates again to 4.25% and announced that he would burst the bubble again, and the Tokyo stock market fell back to the 30,000 mark, stopping at 29,000 points. In September 1990, Mie Noyasu, who felt that he was not enough, raised the interest rate to 6% for the third time, and the Tokyo stock market fell another 4,000 points to 25,000 points.
This strict monetary austerity policy forced all commercial banks in Japan to take an extreme approach, ordering all bank employees to withdraw their loans.
Since then, Japan's economy has been like a balloon that has suddenly been punctured.
And at the same time that the bubble in the Japanese economy was bursting, the bubble was punctured by George. Soros's covert short-selling options on stock indices are starting to wield. On January 12, 1990, the Americans made a super killer move, and a new financial product called "Nikkei put warrant" suddenly appeared on the US exchange, and the stock index options that Goldman Sachs bought from the Japanese insurance industry were sold exclusively to the Kingdom of Denmark, which sold them to the buyers of the warrants and promised to pay the proceeds to the owners of the warrants when the Nikkei Index fell. This warrant was sold in the United States in an instant, and a large number of American investment banks rushed to follow the behavior of Goldman Sachs in the United States, and the Japanese stock market collapsed! …,
However, this was only the beginning, because in August 1990, Iraq raised troops to invade Kuwait, the Gulf War broke out, the price of crude oil skyrocketed, and the business interests of Japanese companies suffered a huge blow! The stock market then suffered another heavy turn! By early September 1990, the Nikkei had fallen below the 20,000 mark.
After hanging up the phone, Jerry dialed BC Real Estate again!
"Is it John? Oh, it's Miss Reiko! Please find Paulson, the head of your investment team, and ask him to come over and listen to the phone! ”
"Hey~ Boss, it's me, John! Is there something wrong? ”。
"Of course there's something, I'm not going to call you if it's okay! Let me ask you, has the VAM agreement with Mitsubishi Real Estate expired? ”
"Is the Rockefeller complex a VAM agreement? Not yet, boss, that VAM agreement didn't expire until 1993! However, if Mitsubishi Real Estate wants to pay 500 million liquidated damages, maybe today, the agreement will expire! ”
"So, are there any other VAM contracts that are about to expire?"
"For a while, no! Boss, you know, Kawasaki Steel's VAM contracts, steel futures, and cement futures will all be until December 1993, and at present, there are only a small number of short stocks to be targeted! ”
"Excellent! Tell Fredo about all of this, and you'll go to America! ”
"A trip to the United States? Boss, you are finally so kind that you are willing to let me take a vacation? This, this is amazing! Oh also~"
"Hey~hey~hey~ Converge a little~ John, who said it was for you to go to the United States for a vacation! I have a mission for you, and Ms. Leslie is waiting for you in the United States! It's September 15, 1990, and the put options we're betting on with the Japanese insurance industry are about to expire in just over a month, so you need to take a good look at the put options. I'll leave that to Carl. Icahn's words, I'm not at ease! Now Robert, Andre, Bill, and Mark all have important tasks in their hands, but you don't have them now, so this matter can only be left to you! ”
"Boss, you're so caring! Leave such a heavy job to me! ”
"Hey~ John, correct your professional attitude! If you don't want to get a 2000W year-end bonus~ I don't care! ”
"Boss~Boss~ I mean, I'm going to die!"
"Very well, that's like human talk! If you understand the mission, hurry up and book a plane ticket for me, I want you to fly back to New York in the afternoon! ”
"Okay~Okay~You're the boss~ You have the final say~ Our subordinates~ It's really hard to die~"
"What are you talking about......"
On that end, John. Paulson had hung up the phone......,