拖垮雷曼的一条手机短信－你信吗？

yaobooyao

《史上代价最高的一条“短信”》

【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: reign1983 (reign), 信区: Military
标 题: 巴菲特误用手机引蝴蝶效应 一短信决定金融危机
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 18 14:35:54 2009, 美东)

据《中国日报》报道 热带地区一只蝴蝶轻轻扇动翅膀，便可能在遥远的国度引发一场飓风，这便是著名的“蝴蝶效应”。让人匪夷所思的是，因“雷曼兄弟”破产引发的金融危机，也可能是“一只蝴蝶”引发。

原来，“雷曼兄弟”破产前夜，有意收购的英国巴克莱银行急需“股神”巴菲特的担保，但巴菲特没有看到这条“求救信号”，结果“雷曼”无奈宣告破产。

　　2008年9月15日，有着158年历史的华尔街顶尖投行“雷曼兄弟”宣告破产，导致华尔街金融危机开始向全球蔓延。不为人知的是，就在此前的 9月13日傍晚，正在加拿大的巴菲特准备出门时，接到巴克莱银行主管戴蒙德的电话。戴蒙德正打算抄底收购雷曼，但他在英国政府那里遇到了困难，因此想出另一个计划，希望巴菲特能提供担保，以便推动交易顺利进行。急于出门的巴菲特让戴蒙德把具体计划通过传真发给他。但在午夜时分他回到酒店房间时，并没有见到任何传真。

　　10个月之后的一天，巴菲特不经意地询问女儿苏珊，自己手机屏幕上的一个小图标代表什么。结果，不谙手机基本功能的他被告知，这正是那天晚上巴菲特一直等待的来自戴蒙德的语音邮件。而据巴菲特回忆，他当时曾叮嘱戴蒙德不要通过手机联系，但戴蒙德却没有遵守。

　　据透露，巴菲特在一年前那场金融危机的高峰期间，每天都要接到大量求助电话。去年秋天金融危机最严重的时候，他曾向高盛集团注资50亿美元，得到股息率10%的累积优先股。巴菲特因此被一些美国金融界人士称为“华尔街的救星”。　　

2001ht09

:)

spdn

i don't think buffett have a cellphone at all.

ranchgirl

True or not, I don't know.

yaobooyao

如果是真的，
对雷曼股东是最贵的一条短信 －破产了。
对Barclay 银行来说最划算－ 人算不如天算，既然早就想买雷曼，破产了再买等于超了一个超级大底儿。

ranchgirl

1# yaobooyao

Lehman Died Because Warren Buffett Didn't Know How To Check Voicemail (BRK)
Lawrence Delevingne|Sep. 15, 2009, 3:04 PM | 5,525 |comment18
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Tags: Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Financial Crisis, Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett has always said he's not so big on technology.

Bloomberg: Billionaire Warren Buffett said he was approached a year ago about insuring Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s assets before the investment bank filed for bankruptcy and didn’t receive financial documents he requested.

Buffett was asked about backing Lehman while Barclays Plc weighed a bid for the firm, he said today at a conference. He didn’t receive the information that he requested be sent to him by facsimile and later learned that there was a voice mail that he missed because he didn’t know how to retrieve it, Buffett said.

As Karen Tumulty notes on Swampland, who knows what would have happened if Buffett had gotten the message:

I caught up with Buffett [after the Fortune summit], and asked him whether, in retrospect, he might have gone for the deal. He pulled the simple little Samsung phone out of his pocket and pondered it for a moment. It's entirely possible, he suggested. "I don't know."

And we never will.

ranchgirl

yaobooyao

7# ranchgirl

History is always well written in a mystrious way.

I laughed seeing this news,  but I guess those ex-Lehman employees & stock holders will hate it to death.

atrader

不是真的. just for fun....