Chapters 63 through 67 Summary

Anton Birnbaum takes the floor at the World Trade Center Crisis Room. He says that he has two investors willing to put their money into a plan he's designed in an effort to rally the market. Clyde Miller, CEO of a brewing company in Milwaukee, will purchase General Motors stock until the price goes back to a specific point. He's ready to invest two hundred million dollars. Louis Levine, Tennessee's state treasurer, will buy NCR stock until it reaches a specific point. He's willing to invest seventy-five million dollars. Anton predicts that other investors will follow suit. Their investments are "too little or too late." The total losses during the 1929 stock market crash were fourteen billion dollars. The total on this particular date was more than two hundred billion.

When the market opened in Hong Kong, protestors were hoping for a...