You, an innocent banker/investor/owner/ broker, are the victim of a sneak attack. It goes like this. You’re just sitting at your desk, surfing email and thinking about what you’re going to do for the weekend when the telephone lets out a hopeful electronic pulse. Maybe, just maybe, you think as you pick up the receiver, it’s your only almost-investment grade client calling to ask you to arrange a jillion dollar, generously over-secured facility to effect some wildly accretive acquisition that will earn you the Marine Money Deal of Year Award and ensure a colossal bonus and decadent skiing vacation in Chamonix.
“Hello,” you say, most likely in some other language as butterflies flutter by in your stomach. “Matt McCleery, Marine Money,” I say. Before you have a chance to exhale, I continue with “if you had a gun to your head and the attacker demanded to know money can be made in ship finance in the eleven months that remain in 2002, what would you say?”
This is only an excerpt of SOME BEST BETS, 2002
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