American Fortune Life

Snapped!

Andy's eyes were naturally fixed on the top of the tee from the moment he started his swing until the moment the ball flew off the tee. The only way to know if the ball was hit is to see if it's still there, and then you can see the result.

A beautiful parabola is drawn, but it is a bit off from the direction of the hole, well, it is very off.

"You should practice your game more..."

"Snapped!"

As soon as Warren Buffett finished speaking, he swung the golf ball out.

Andy was wearing sunglasses, so he couldn't see the change in his eyes, but Buffett could tell from the way he shrugged his shoulders while holding the club that this young man didn't care about his golf skills.

"I enjoy the comfort of playing golf, which is what I think is the charm of this sport. It doesn't matter to me whether the ball is good or bad, it's just swinging the club!"

There was a faint smile on the corner of Andy's mouth, seemingly unintentionally and seemingly implying meaning in the words, handed the club to the caddy, and walked towards the golf cart parked not far away with Buffett Go, said while taking off the white leather glove on his left hand.

Buffett's eyes lit up, seeing the faint smile and calmness on Andy's face, he had a higher opinion of this young man. Why many successful entrepreneurs like to play golf, because compared with other sports, golf not only contains a profound workplace philosophy, but also exudes a strong business implication.

"Why do so many successful people like to play golf? Because it is the sport that can best control their emotions. Playing golf is like driving something. For a business manager, this is the same. But to me golf is just a recreational sport, and to be honest, if someone else invited me to play, I would definitely say no, and as you can see, my game is too bad."

Andy sat on the golf cart, showing a sunny smile, showing his white teeth, showing no sign of embarrassment at all because of his poor golf skills.

Warren Buffett laughed and shook his head, "Your mentality is very suitable for this game. Golf is 20% mechanical and skill, and the other 80% is philosophy, humor, romance, friendship, cursing, melodrama and conversation. I don't like it." If you play with people who are utilitarian and competitive, you will lose the fun.”

"Hehe, it's hard to find, how many people regard golf as a sport that can never go back, a sport that cannot be regretted.

To insist on playing 18 holes, whether it is below par or over 100,

You can't even regret it. Just like life, once opened, no matter good or bad, good or bad, pain or sorrow, it can only move forward. Tsk tsk, it's really cruel. . . "

Buffett listened to Andy's explanation, the expression on his face became very astonished, and the eyes in his eyes were full of splendor, "I like you more and more, Andy, I am really surprised, you really are a genius writer. "

"Hehe, thank you. I am still very happy about your compliment, but, Mr. Buffett, I find it hard to believe that you just asked me out to play golf..."

Andy jumped out of the car and reached out to help the elderly Buffett.

"Thank you." Buffett got out of the car more easily with Andy's support, and two caddies followed behind with golf club bags on their backs.

When he stopped in front of a small low-lying puddle, Andy patiently waited for Buffett, who leaned on his cue and looked towards the target flagpole, to be the first to tell the purpose of asking himself to play today.

"Actually, there is nothing important. I want to talk to you mainly, such as the housing market, subprime mortgages, and the stock market..." Buffett said casually, and reached out his hand to signal Andy to call first.

Andy stood in front of the ball indifferently, with his feet apart, and his posture was incomparably standard. In his opinion, it doesn't matter if you have poor golf skills, but your playing posture must be beautiful.

"Snapped!"

Watching the golf ball flying in a parabola and landing, Andy closed the shot and put his feet together, "Hehe, this shot is not bad, but you are looking for me to talk about economics, I am afraid you have found the wrong person, I am really not good at it, The big gamble on the housing bubble is due to the large amount of data analysis and field investigation done by my subordinates, and there is no secret at all, and I understand a truth, that is, once the supply is cut off, the decline in housing prices will lead to a lot of stupid mistakes. exposure..."

The conversation between Andy and Buffett was very flat and equal, and Buffett did not put on the airs of himself as a stock god or a big shot. Of course, Andy would not reveal his vision of seeing the future. When dealing with old foxes like Buffett, he But I will go through my mind first, and Andy also knows that the old man's purpose is not so simple.

"You once again made a big bet on gold and set up two private equity funds, which surprised everyone on Wall Street."

"Isn't this a loan from the bank? It has to be replaced with valuable collateral. The fund is in charge of my investment company CEO Bardstone. Since it is an investment company, I can't always use my own money for it." Let’s invest, but I didn’t expect the public offering to be sold out within a few days, it’s really crazy.” Andy had a happy smile on his face, he was really happy, Nima, if I had known this, the total amount of the fund A little more setting would be nice.

"Hehe, you are now the new wealth myth of Wall Street." Buffett raised his eyebrows indifferently. He had no choice but to ask this cunning little fox in front of him. He couldn't ask anything useful at all. Almost all of Andy Smith's investments over the past year have been operated as a reckless fool's investment.

Whether it is buying Apple stock, trading oil futures, or diving headlong into the MBS subprime mortgage bond market, it is a stud-like way to gamble. If this crazy behavior can succeed every time, it is not a simple fool's investment. It is a kind of firm self-confidence.

Buffett also knows that there are many Wall Street colleagues who are staring at Andy now, such as Goldman Sachs.

"Andy, are you interested in talking to someone at Goldman Sachs?"

Andy's swing stopped in mid-air, he turned his head and looked at Buffett with a smile, and grinned, "Not interested!"

"Snapped!"

After hitting the ball with a swing, Andy continued to say to the puzzled Buffett: "I talked to Morgan Stanley because I was afraid that they would go bankrupt. After all, the funds for gambling are too large, but Goldman Sachs, huh, I don't believe that they will go bankrupt because of consecutive failures." I can’t bear a loss of less than 500 million U.S. dollars, and there is no problem of bankruptcy. I just need to wait patiently. After all, they have never been relentless when deducting the deposit from my company account every month. Points will not be deducted!"

Buffett stopped this topic with enough time. What Andy said was very clear. The two parties had previously conducted transactions strictly in accordance with the contract, and this was also a benefit of hundreds of millions of dollars. He didn't think this young man would give him such face. The friendship between them is just an ordinary friendship.

After more than four hours of exercise, the old man Buffett did not show the slightest fatigue. He was still exchanging various investment views with Andy in high spirits. Yes, rolling all over the floor.

But for Andy, it is really equivalent to chicken ribs, but some ideas still benefit a lot.

When the two came out of the stadium, those paparazzi tails that had never been shaken appeared out of nowhere, holding up the camera and excitedly filming Andy talking with the stock god and parting.

This is Warren Buffett, Wall Street, and the big names in American financial circles. Usually farting will be over-interpreted, let alone playing golf with Andy for three or four hours.

"Thank you, Mr. Buffett..."

The middle-aged man who hung up the phone shook his head at the person sitting opposite him with a disappointed expression on his face, "He refused. It seems that the $489 million is unavoidable."

"Hey, I didn't report much hope. Warren Buffett just made a favor. Deutsche Bank is even worse, and the loss of 1 billion US dollars can't escape."

"Tell me, why did such a freak suddenly pop up on Wall Street? However, Morgan Stanley escaped a catastrophe. I heard that they are also crazy about shorting. Damn it, even our company is included in the top of their shorting list. .”

"Hehe, the major investment banks on Wall Street have become very crazy now, and it is no news that they are shorting each other. After all, everyone understands that everyone has those toxic bond portfolios, and you can't get rid of the blame, just like the arrogant Lehman group. Arrogant idiots will take..."

On the newspaper the next day, a group of idiot reporters really started to make up all kinds of nonsense stories, trying to interpret Andy and Buffett's meeting wisely.

"Boring!" Andy skimmed through the content with a sneer, and immediately lost interest, but when he came to Liberty City Investment Company, he received two messages that made him dumbfounded.

The first one is that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway also entered the gold futures market, which caused violent fluctuations in the gold market. Although the price of gold began to rise all the way, making Andy make money, it still feels a little depressed.

The second is that the CEO of Bear Stearns stated that they have injected US$3.2 billion into two funds that have stopped redemption, so that customers do not need to panic. Andy knew that this was just drinking doves to quench his thirst, but at the same time it also delayed the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Andy doesn't want to continue to bother about the subprime mortgage crisis, but things are not as simple as he thinks, he is now in the middle of the game, even if he doesn't want to attract attention, every move of his company will be noticed by Wall Street And companies, already reported by some financial newspapers, are annoying, like flies, everything around becomes money-related.

Even on his blog and Facebook, there are various investment questions, and the brainless fans can't resist the temptation of the dollar, and they leave the message "Will gold really rise?" over and over again.

Classmates, teachers, Hollywood Plums, Elf Princes, Matt Damon, frat people all called and asked.

While the myth of wealth is established, troubles will follow, and sometimes you can't help yourself.