Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Page #5

Well, don't. Spend it. Use the money.

Because one day, you're gonna wake up

and you're gonna be dead.

Lou, you got to get yourself together,

all right?

We're gonna be fine.

No matter how bad this thing gets,

we have real equity in this company.

We're gonna get through this.

Marry Gekko's daughter.

Make some kids with her.

And you spend as much time as you can

with those kids when they're young

because everything changes. Everything.

I cannot help you if I don't understand

what you are talking about.

There's 15,000 jobs on the line right now.

Somebody's after us, right?

Somebody's trying to hurt us.

There's a reason this is happening.

I need to know how and why.

You know that dream you got about

that little energy company in California?

You may not get there,

but you hold on to that.

Because everything else is just noise.

It's not just noise.

There's 15,000 jobs on the line.

Fifteen thousand people here.

That's not noise.

- Are we going under?

- I never liked this damn dog.

Louis, are we going under?

You're asking the wrong question, Jacob.

What's the right question?

Who isn't?

(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

ZABEL:
China's out.

BILL:
You said...

ZABEL:
I know what I said, Bill.

Two months we negotiated

with these pikers.

They pulled out at 7:00 p.m.

So what's new? They're Chinese.

And while they were negotiating,

we lost the Koreans.

BILL:
So you're saying

you don't have an out.

No, I'm saying, just give me one week.

We're still talking to the British.

And the Arabs are back in,

and this time it's for real.

PAUL ON SPEAKER:

Lou, we've heard this before.

Jesus. Paul, we lost billions this week.

If the markets don't roll over our paper

Sunday night, before Asia opens,

Keller Zabel cannot do business

on Monday.

Tuesday, 15,000 people are gonna be

out of a job, worldwide!

BILL:
Lou, you understated

the scale of your bad loans.

Your valuations are no longer believable.

After all these years,

you say this to me?

Me?

Three-quarters of the banking houses

at this table

are holding the same paper,

and you're gonna let Keller Zabel fail?

You're all committing suicide.

What do you say, Harry?

Will you come in on this?

Look, if you want us

to bail out Keller Zabel,

all of us will have to participate.

Like Long-Term Capital, '98.

And we will need substantial guarantees

from the US Treasury.

Bill, I think we should talk privately.

PAUL:
I think that's a good idea, Bill.

BILL:
Gentlemen, give us a minute.

What about moral hazard, Jack?

We bail out Keller Zabel, who's to say

it's not gonna happen again and again?

You vindictive bastard.

Who are you to talk about moral hazard?

BRETTON:
I'm sorry, Lou.

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