Chapter 1058： Battle (seeking monthly ticket)

Chapter 1058 Battle (seeking monthly ticket)

As the president of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein is also a powerful presence on Wall Street. Even though he is not as powerful as Paulson was, he is still an absolute big shot.

But that’s for other people. Lloyd Blankfein is not Paulson after all, so he can’t defy everything like Paulson. In America, there are still many people who don’t like him at all. De Blankfein, and Song Yang is definitely one of them!

Lloyd Blankfein himself knows this. He is incomparable to Paulson. Back then, Paulson couldn't completely suppress Song Yang, let alone him. That's why he called Paulson. Telephone.

Listening to Lloyd Blankfein, Paulson knew the situation of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs today, including Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and a large group of Wall Street investment banks, has long since not only bought and sold stocks. For these investment banks, the status of simple stock trading and investment has become lower and lower, and they have found other things to make a lot of money.

Various futures transactions are one aspect, and other futures derivatives have made these investment banks rich, such as bonds, interest rates, stock indexes, and commodities, such as Lehman and Bear Stearns among the five major investment banks on Wall Street, Just recently, new tricks have been played, packaging real estate in America into subprime mortgages, and packaging these things into bonds and funds with high returns to sell all over the world.

American leeks, pension funds, listed companies, celebrities, etc. in old Europe, Japan, Hong Kong City, Singapore, etc., all began to allocate these bonds and funds generously because of the high interest rates.

Lehman Investment Bank and others are well-suited to eat more than one fish. With this method, they can make a fortune. Goldman Sachs seldom plays this game. It mainly plays futures and currencies. After all, it has experience. Don't stalk the currencies and interest rates of other regions. Is there anything more profitable in this world than stalking a country? !

Energy futures trading, Goldman Sachs naturally cannot let it go. Goldman Sachs simply does not have too many means of doing things. Speculating on natural gas, oil, electricity and other futures is also a good way for Goldman Sachs to make money.

For Goldman Sachs, it is necessary to let the dealers stand on their side. When necessary, they can let the dealers go into battle shirtless and help them sideways, just like in the later game stations, when the short-selling institutions can't play leeks, they directly lift the table and pull out the network cable , so that the leeks can no longer buy the stocks of the game station, as long as they can win, they don't care what method they use. Of course, Goldman Sachs will use the same method when necessary!

Paulson walked back and forth a few steps in the room. As Lloyd Blankfein said, although he didn't know what was wrong with the American Energy Futures Exchange that Song Yang had re-created, he still knew Paulson's understanding of Song Yang must have someone behind him.

"I will call Bruno Song to ensure that Goldman Sachs will not be out, but Lloyd, you have to be clear, even I can't force Bruno Song to agree to certain conditions!"

Paulson warned Lloyd Blankfein, temporarily different from the past, Paulson is indeed more powerful, but why not Song Yang, facing Song Yang, Paulson is not sure of victory, In the era when Paulson was the president of Goldman Sachs, Song Yang couldn't be completely controlled, let alone now. As for relying on the power of the federal finance minister, Song Yang is the biggest benefactor of the current general. Paulson hasn't asked for it yet. no fun.

At 1500 Louisiana Avenue in Houston, in front of the former Enron headquarters building that has withered for nearly half a year, traffic has begun to become busy again. Several large engineering vehicles are parked in front of the building. The brand and LOGO belonging to Enron have long been removed. The scene was captured by the media, symbolizing the end of an era.

Today's engineering vehicles and construction workers slowly put up the logo of Baker Hughes Energy Company and the American Energy Futures Exchange.

"A little higher!"

"Guys, it has to be done today!"

Figuerod drove a second-hand General Motors to the freshly baked energy futures exchange building, and saw a member of the construction team holding a walkie-talkie and constantly directing.

The scene in front of him was both familiar and unfamiliar. It was clearly the place where he worked before, but it felt completely different.

Before Enron went bankrupt, Figerode was a trader on Enron's online platform, but his rank was too low to become Jeff Skilling's confidant. At that time, Figerode was still aggrieved, Those confidantes who envy Jeff Skilling, for Jeff Skilling's order, without compromise, have been promoted to supervisors, with high salaries and bonuses, living a luxurious life.

But then everything changed. In one day, Kenneth, the head of the Enron Group, died, and Jeff Skilling went to jail. He would never be released from a federal prison in his next life. At this time, Fei Only then did Grodd know what Jeff Skilling and his henchmen had done.

Since the Enron Group went bankrupt, Figerrod has not been as miserable as the few people who had nowhere to go but went to sell meat in the "Princess Playa" magazine, but his life is quite tense, just like many people in the Enron Group back then. , Figerode also provided a villa.

After Enron went bankrupt, in order not to confiscate the villa and pay debts after bankruptcy, Figerode sold a lot of things, including cars, expensive watches, and home appliances. After the experience of the Enron Group, Figerrod was turned away. The Enron Group has been regarded as a fraud company, and the employees from the Enron Group have also been labeled.

Just last week, Figuerod felt like he was going nowhere, his savings were gone, the bank had started calling him, and honestly, Figuerod was ready to lose everything and run to the parks in Houston When the homeless were preparing, they went to the community charity relief center established by the church near the Bruno family villa every week to receive food. The relief center, I heard that the fund was provided by the Bruno family, was the largest charity relief station in Houston. You can get free food, clothes and other daily necessities...

But just before Figerode went bankrupt, he saw the news that under the leadership of Chuck Rhodes, the long-delayed Enron Group was successfully auctioned for bankruptcy. On that day, Figerode swore that he became Chuck Rhodes A loyal supporter of Mr. Chuck Rhodes, who dares to oppose Chuck Rhodes' re-election as mayor of Houston, Figerrod can shoot that competitor with a shotgun.

Of course, Figerode would also like to praise Mr. Bruno Song. He deserves to be the "first benevolent" in Houston, but he can't see the people of Houston suffering. Let the Houstonians who work in Enron go bankrupt. Although there are conspiracy theories, Song Yang is completely robbing and snatching away the most valuable property of Enron Group at a low price.

But Figerode doesn't believe that at all. If the Enron Group after bankruptcy is really so valuable, otherwise, why do other companies still go around the Enron Group, why don't they come to rescue the Enron Group? staff, slowly going bankrupt?

On the contrary, only Song Yang, the richest man who came out of Houston, turned the tide and rescued the people of the Enron Group in the most critical moment, and after the acquisition of the Enron Industry, Baker Hughes Energy Company also acquired the Enron Industry. Among the companies, the only company that publicly announced that it will not reduce the size of Enron's original staff within three years, and will not cut the salaries of Figerrod and others, isn't this enough to show Mr. Bruno Song's conscience in Texas? !

Entering the American Energy Futures Exchange, passing by the originally designed coffee shop of more than 10,000 square meters, Figerrod went straight to the upstairs office.

As soon as he entered, Figerod saw many familiar faces. Like Figerod, these people also looked like they had survived the catastrophe.

Figuerod had just sat down at his desk and turned on the computer when he saw a large group of people surrounding a man heading towards the conference room.

"It's Mr. Bruno Song!"

"And President Lorenzo Simonelli!"

For the executives of the renamed energy futures exchange, Figerrod and others have more or less heard of it.

After Song Yang and Lorenzo Simonelli, Figerode saw many big names in the industry come one after another. Even in the heyday of the Enron Group, Figerode had never seen such a battle. Pass.

(end of this chapter)