Reborn Millennial Gamer

There are still 9 days before Christmas, so there is plenty of time to prepare for the dinner. As for the guests, Lu Fei and Xu Xin split up, and she is responsible for inviting the giants of Wall Street.

For example, Merrill Lynch's spokesperson Sny O'Neill.

In contrast, Lu Fei is more busy, and the people he invites are more important. In any case, he must pay attention to strategy.

The first wave of calls, to rising Silicon Valley stars.

Google's Larry Page, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Microsoft's Ballmer, these Internet "new money" have connections and money, but what they lack is investment channels.

For the second wave of calls, call Bill Gates first.

Said that Buffett would participate, Bill Gates agreed.

Then I called Buffett and said that Bill Gates would attend, and Buffett agreed, because with such a large group of rich people, the grade of the Christmas banquet was instantly raised.

It can not only invite old money like the Walton family, but also talk to a giant like BlackRock, and the style is upgraded to a higher level.

Of course, in the last wave, whether it was a New York congressman or a retired senior official in the political circle, they all accepted the invitation.

After the list of core guests was established, Lu Fei no longer cared about this aspect, and left the finishing work to Xu Xin with confidence, left the hotel, and returned to his small nest in the Central Park building.

Along the way, there are all tall buildings.

Big banks, exchanges, insurance companies, row upon row, various group companies are countless.

Carlson Bullock hitchhiked and sat across from him, while flipping through the data, he said:

“The Commerce Department’s annual report showed that U.S. housing starts fell 2.5%, the largest decline in two years.”

"There are also industries related to real estate, such as construction, cement, and steel. All indicators have hit a record low in the past three years."

"..."

"Lu, the whole myth of the real estate invincibility, no, and the whole myth of the mortgage bond bubble, just as you predicted, will all burst! Why can you predict so accurately!"

"Why! Are you God!"

"Wrong, even God calls me God."

Seeing the excitement of Carlson Bullock, Lu Fei calmly waved his hand and said, "These evidences alone are not enough, we need more strong evidence, you work hard, run more Moody, These three are S&P and Fitch."

"You don't suspect that the subprime bond ratings are fake, do you?"

Carlson Bullock's eyes widened.

"I don't care if it's fake or not. Without investigation, we have no right to speak, but we have to wonder, can there be so many 3A, 2A, or even A-rated bonds in subprime mortgages?"

Lu Fei stared at Carlson Bullock, and saw him suck in a breath of cold air. When he thought that the bonds above grade A given by the rating agencies might be a bunch of junk bonds, he couldn't help feeling horrified.

Suddenly, it was like falling into an ice cellar.

"Brother Ben, turn up the temperature a bit more."

Lu Fei reminded, and then changed the subject: "How is the preparation for the banquet, has the venue been set?"

"Ah."

Carlson Bullock nodded sluggishly: "However, the budget is a bit overrun, 18 dollars, because it is Christmas Eve, and our reservation time is a bit late, so there is only the most expensive room left, which happens to be between Lehman and the United States. In the middle of the forest."

"So be it."

"By the way, Bosch, remember to bring a female companion on the day of the banquet. Do you have someone to choose? If not, would you like me to introduce you to some Victoria's Secret models and let you choose one?"

"No, I have it"

Lu Fei turned his head and looked out the window.

White snow like salt grains drifted down from the dark sky, slowly turning into small snowflakes, fluttering one after another like catkins.

"Wow~"

Ivan Kara opened the bathroom door, walked out naked, and glanced at the muddy bed, no one was there.

At this time, the man turned his back to the floor-to-ceiling windows, flipping through the documents with a light on.

"I used the toiletries in the bathroom. Your girlfriend won't be angry if she finds out?"

What Ivanka said was naturally Zeng Li.

"Don't worry, this guest bedroom is specially for guests to stay overnight. Every day, two cleaning companies will come to the door, and they will come for a big cleaning in the morning and evening. Don't say that you use this body lotion that she doesn't know, even if you miss a small box She doesn't know about the umbrella, not to mention, she doesn't live here at all, and the two of us have another love nest."

Lu Fei put down the paper and stood up.

"Asshole~"

Ivanka muttered, but with the demonstration of her father, Wang Wang, she had long been used to it, and went straight forward, just like Lu Fei, standing naked at the window and staring at the heavy snow.

"Then at the Christmas banquet, you didn't look for Zeng, but you chose me to be your girlfriend. Will she be angry if she finds out?"

"For such an important banquet, the first person I think of is you, besides you or you, you are the only one."

Lu Fei was completely duplicity. The first thing he thought of was Zeng Li, who had finished her career and studied in the United States. But on Christmas Eve, she had promised to visit her divorced father's house, so that the father and daughter could have a good reunion.

Ever since, only the spare tire can be used.

Ivanka would not have guessed that she was coauthoring it as a backup, but she didn't believe the man's words, "No way? I don't believe it, unless you also give my dad an invitation letter."

"Yes, as long as he is willing to come." Lu Fei said.

"Really?!"

Ivanka grinned, picked up the cigarette case from the table, and took out a cigarette from her red lips. After lighting it, she snuggled into his arms and put the cigarette to his mouth.

"How long did Iron Man post-production take?"

Lu Fei exhaled a smoke ring.

"Almost 6 months or so."

Ivanka thought for a moment, "It will be completed in early June at the earliest, but I discussed the release time with Say, and we agreed that it will be at the end of the summer file in August."

"Are there many rivals in the same period?"

Lu Fei controls the ball with one hand and smokes with the other.

Ivanka pursed her lips and said intermittently: "The Big Six in Hollywood have announced their annual film lists. In June, there is "American Team", in July there are "Transformers" and "Invincible Hulk", and in August there are "Pirates of the Caribbean". 6", "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", "Bourne Shadow 7"..."

"Marvel filmed Captain America?"

Lu Fei blinked his eyes, the US team was a rip-off.

"Why, do you want to fight Marvel?"

Ivanka rubbed her arms into his arms, "I don't think it's necessary. It will be released in late September, followed by a logical press conference, which perfectly matches the promotional campaign, isn't it?"

Lu Fei looked into her eyes and nodded slightly.

Ivanka took the cigarette from his mouth and took two puffs: "For this banquet, do you want to attract other people to invest and continue to short subprime mortgages?"

"Your family is engaged in real estate, what do you think?"

"I don't know, I only know that many newspapers said that real estate in 06 was a 'long-lost hot scene', and it will continue to prosper in 07, and my father also said that the macroeconomic fundamentals of the United States are good, and there are only a few structural problems , but there is absolutely no problem with the subprime mortgage, you can withdraw the stop loss now, there is still time."

"If I want to stop the loss, why should I bother to hold this banquet?"

"Okay, then, can I sell you my part of the John Paulson Fund, Lu?"

"You want to sell, are you sure?"

"This money is my private money, is it okay?"

"Of course, but I won't pay the original price."

"No problem. When I bought it, the total was 200 million dollars. How about selling it to you for only 182 million?"

"Well……"

Lu Fei stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray and looked at her.

Ivanka put on a "please" expression.

"Don't regret it then." Lu Fei said with a smile.

"I will never regret it!"

Ivanka swore: "In the name of God."

"One-buy price, 180 million, and, turn over!"

Lu Fei didn't give Ivanka time to bargain at all, and pushed her whole body to the floor-to-ceiling window, and the wind outside the window was strong.

"dong dong dong~"

From time to time, white mist appeared on the frosty glass.

Rushing snow particles fell from the sky, and a blizzard covered the entire city of New York for almost a week.

Fortunately, on Christmas Eve, the snow stopped and the wind stopped.

The banquet hall of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel is magnificent. Under the crystal lights, there stands a Christmas tree wrapped in neon lights, full of gifts, which complements the surrounding layout.

In the evening, guests came one after another.

Wearing a red scarf, Wang Dabu strode forward, and when he bumped into a group of heavyweights whom he had only heard of or only met a few times, he couldn't help but gasped.

Lu Fei's connections are so terrifying!
With his head held high, he took a glass of red wine from the plate served by the waiter, pretended to sniff it elegantly, and heard not far away——

"Is this wine Romanée-Conti?"

Snyonier took a sip of the wine and smacked his lips.

"Yes, the taste is quite mellow."

Michael Bloom, who is in charge of Merrill Lynch's entire sub-debt department, including CDOs and CDSs, couldn't help feeling: "I never imagined that Lu would ask us to make such a large amount of CDS, and he would still be so rich."

"Hehe, how come there is no money? Just his investment in soybeans, oil, gold futures, and Google, Amazon, Netflix, and monsters. He can fully afford the money for this drink!"

"Yeah, the Three-Body Fund has gained such a high reputation on Wall Street in just a few years. It is inseparable from Lu's vision. He never missed it, except for this subprime loan."

"What's the use of winning so much? On Wall Street, as long as you make a mistake once, you can lose everything you won before."

"O'Neill, you're right. Lu gave us this opportunity. He just borrowed CDS to spit back not a single cent of the money Lu earned from Merrill Lynch in gold futures."

"That's all, how is it enough? Find a way to sell him more CDS, otherwise why would I come! Otherwise, why do you think Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bear Stearns are here!"

"You mean you're all staring at Lu, the prey?"

Michael Bloom looked around, and there were hungry wolves everywhere.

"Cheers." Sny O'Neal raised his glass.

"cheers!"

Seeing the two of Michael Bloom working hand in hand, I was excited and helpless. What was exciting was that Lu Fei had suffered a disastrous defeat, but what was helpless was that Ivanka was too close to him, like glue, not so much a couple, but Rather a lover.

No, the relationship must be broken!
Just as he turned his attention to Lu Fei and Ivanka, they were reminded by Carlson Bullock and greeted people from all walks of life in the political, financial, business and Internet circles with smiles.

"Olsman, the former deputy treasury minister, from the Goldman Sachs department, is now retired at Harvard University, and he can be developed into the fund."

"Lei Wenkai, former vice minister of commerce, although he is no longer active in politics, he is interested in economics and trade, especially e-commerce."

"..."

"James Cain, CEO of Bear Stearns, Paulson's immediate boss, has always been optimistic about subprime mortgages."

Lu Fei and James Cain simply shook hands and saw Larry Page following him.

Since Google's listing in 04, the stock price has risen by as much as 8 times, and this year it has broken through a record of $700, ranking 17th after him in the world's richest list.

Typical money and nowhere to spend it!
Hearing Lu Fei's call, he agreed without hesitation, and took the opportunity of buying real estate in New York to bring his female companion to the meeting.

"Hey Lu, congratulations!"

He said from the bottom of his heart: "Iphone3G has achieved 1000 million global sales, which is really unimaginable."

"So you should speed up the Google package in the LMS. This year's press conference, I will release a brand new Android system and App Store."

Lu Fei chatted with Larry Page for a while.

The cooperation between Google and Logic is very important. It is related to the global layout and future development of the Android system. The two sides need to cooperate with each other, and there are many busy things.

We talked until Bill Gates and Ballmer appeared. Microsoft and Google are mortal enemies, and the absolute king does not see the king.

So, Larry Page casually found an excuse to leave.

"Lu, what do you want me to invest in? Youtube? Line? Facebook?"

"Gates, how about Spotify? Goldman Sachs asked me to discuss it. They want to take advantage of the current momentum of the stock market and finish the 'Pre-Ipo' to find a time to go public. Lu, what do you think?"

"As long as Lu agrees, I will vote for Spotify, and I will also vote for Facebook. The current development momentum is very good. Lu, can you help Microsoft introduce Zuckerberg?"

"Lu, why are you selling Amazon stock?"

"..."

Facing Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and others, Lu Fei shuttled back and forth with ease, chatting and laughing happily.

"Lu, why don't you invest in subprime mortgages with them?"

John Paulson saw that he was talking about investment in a few words, but he almost never mentioned subprime mortgages. Whenever subprime mortgages were mentioned, he beat around the bush and tried to find out their attitudes towards short selling.

One by one, showing intriguing smiles.

"Look at you, you're in a hurry."

Lu Fei rolled his eyes, and looked around Xu Xin, Carlson Bullock, and John Paulson: "If there is a person with a rare treasure today, how can he find a buyer who knows the goods?"

"Of course the goods will be announced, and the price will be quoted truthfully."

John Paulson blurted out.

"What if the buyer doesn't know the goods?" Lu Fei said.

"Continue to publicize, there will always be buyers who know the goods."

"Do you need to hawk along the street with rare treasures in your arms? It's like shorting subprime mortgages. We all know that it is a golden idea that will definitely make you rich, but we ask one by one to find out. Is this idea still gold? It's bronze. No one will be rare. Believe it or not ?”

"Then what should we do?"

"So to choose the right buyers, the secret is to show off the inferior products first, and then sell the rare ones, so that the willing ones will be hooked."

"What if the inferior products are released first and the buyers are scared away?"

"If you don't know the goods, how can you make a fortune with us?"

Lu Fei has secretly won Jeff Bezos, Ballmer, Larry Page, and another Google founder who was not present, Sergey Brin, entirely out of trust in him.

As for Bill Gates, he clearly follows Buffett.

But right now, Buffett is whispering and whispering to Bear Stearns, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street giants, especially Jewish capital, forming an invisible small circle.

There are countless circles like this in the entire banquet hall.

It seems to be a harmonious group, both in suits and leather shoes, but there is an invisible gap separating the scene. A group of people gather in their comfort zone, chatting with familiar people, and not speculating with unfamiliar words.

Knowing the king is so lonely and cold in the corner, unable to integrate into any circle, so he can only look for Ivanka's little padded jacket aggrievedly.

At 07:30 in the evening, the guests basically arrived on time.

Goldman Sachs took the time and was the last one to arrive.

John Thornton led David Solomon into the gate, and said with a smile in Chinese: "Lu, I finally fulfilled my mission."

"Thank you Thornton."

Lu Fei stretched out his hand, "Long time no see, David."

"Yeah, long time no see. I didn't expect you to invite me to the Christmas banquet of your Three-body Fund, and you also invited so many colleagues who used to work at Goldman Sachs?"

David Solomon shook hands and glanced around.

"I'm friends with Goldman Sachs!"

What Lu Fei said was more true than the truth: "Penguin is operated and listed by you. Don't you still want to list Spotify? I have this plan, even Feigou, Sogou, etc. There will be opportunities to cooperate with you in the future. Isn't it?"

"Okay, how do you want to cooperate?"

David Solomon was extremely vigilant.

"Before the big cooperation, let's have a small cooperation first, and treat it as a Christmas surprise for you and Goldman Sachs, as long as you are willing to accept it." Lu Fei raised a mysterious smile.

"What surprise?"

The appearance of David Solomon not only attracted the small circle of Goldman Sachs, but also attracted other big talkers and hall masters, one by one, and focused their attention on this.

"Sister Xin, translate for me."

Lu Fei didn't say it clearly, but let Xu Xin do it for him.

She said: "We plan to buy 5000 million US dollars from Goldman Sachs AAA subprime bond CDS, are you willing to trade?"

"watt?!"

James Kane, Sny O'Neill and the others couldn't help being impatient. They were eyeing Lu Fei as their prey!
Goldman Sachs, you bastard, don't even think about eating alone!
We want Christmas gifts like this too!

"Lu, I heard that you are selling the stocks of Google and Amazon. It must be very hard to maintain CDS?"

David Solomon had long been happy in his heart, but on the surface he pretended to be worried, "Based on my experience, asset allocation like the Three-Body Fund is too unhealthy, why don't you buy some of our Goldman Sachs stocks, or the newly launched several This is a CDO product with a good rate of return, very suitable for hedging..."

Tmd, this is definitely here to make trouble!
The corners of John Paulson's mouth couldn't help twitching. Isn't this exposing Lu Fei's old background of investment losses and lack of financial resources?
Change the time, change the occasion, forget it, tonight in front of so many potential customers, how can you attract people to invest in short funds?

If you can't get investment, this banquet is not held in vain!
At this moment, a voice came from the periphery of the crowd:
"Lu, Goldman Sachs is moaning, don't do business with him, come to Lehman, we will give you as much CDS as you want!"

All of a sudden, all eyes turned to the source of the sound.

"Lehman's Richard Fuld, known in the industry as 'the bulldog of Wall Street' for his no-nonsense, fierce style."

John Paulson quietly introduced Lu Fei.

Lu Fei raised his eyebrows. The more he looked at him, the more familiar he looked. He bankrupted Lehman Brothers and Silicon Valley Bank!

Before they could speak, Richard Fuld asked:
"Lu, why didn't you invite Lehman to the Christmas banquet of the Three-body Fund? Was it intentional or not?"

Thanks to Yuan Lai ヽ for the 200 starting coins.