Weber: B 10000 VERT

“I know the market isn’t open yet. I am buying it pre-market.”

“I can buy it on Instinet.”

“Where is the stock price? About $120 a share. But that doesn’t matter. I would buy it no matter where the price is, because it is the stupidest stock in the world. The company makes no money and has no hope of ever making money.”

“I will lose money eventually. Stocks of companies that don’t make money eventually go to zero. I just have to wait.”

“Listen to me.”

“Stop. Listen to me.”

“I brought a gun to work. If I don’t lose money today, I am going to blow my brains out.”

“Yes I am.”

“No, I’ve never owned a gun. And it’s not that hard to get one, even today. It would be harder if I lived in the city.”

“I don’t need to know how to use it. I’m not deer hunting. I know how to load it, and I know how to pull the trigger.”

“I am not screwing around. I have the gun, in my hand, and I’m pointing it against my head. Stay on the phone. If you get off the phone, or if you call the police, or anyone, I’m pulling the trigger.”

“No, I’m not shooting anyone else in the office. That would be stupid.”

“The door’s locked. He can’t get in.”

“Nobody else knows. Just you and me.”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“So I kill myself. This affects nobody but me. I’m not married. I don’t have kids.”

“They can take care of themselves. CN might go bankrupt, but they can take care of themselves.”

“He’s going through a bad divorce. He doesn’t think I know about it. She spent all his money. Happens a lot around here.”

“There are minimal consequences if I kill myself. I have given up trying to make my investors lose money. If I kill myself, they liquidate the portfolio and everyone gets their money back. If this world isn’t fair, I don’t want to live in it.”

“Listen to me. I do not want to live in a world where I guy like me can become a billionaire.”

“I have done everything I wanted to do in this life. I found what I was good at and I mastered it. I am the best in the world. Not many people can say they got to do that. So I am done. There is nothing left to do.”

“There is nothing that interests me.”

“I don’t want to travel.”

“I have read enough books.”

“No, no, no. If I didn’t kill myself, I would be just hanging around, waiting to die.”

“I told you. There is nothing left I want to do.”

“You are not talking me out of this.”

“Impossible.”

“No.”

“Go ahead, I’m listening.”

“Uh-huh.”

“Yeah.”

“Not likely.”

“I see what you mean, but—“

“No.”

“That is not possible.”

“I’m not interested.”

“Quiet. I am going to buy more stupid stocks.”

Weber: B 10000 RMBS