The Appeal (2008)
“Trudeau. Fisk was seven points ahead and seemed to have regained momentum. Barry had no qualms about rounding the numbers up a bit to make the great man feel better. He’d been lying all week anyway. Mr. Trudeau would never know they had almost blown a sixteen-point lead.
“We’re up by ten points,” Barry said confidently from his hotel suite.
“Then it’s over?”
“I know of no election in which the front-runner has dropped ten points over the last weekend. And, with all the money we’re spending on m...edia, I think we’re gaining.”
“Nice job, Barry,” Carl said, and closed his phone.
As Wall Street waited for the news that Krane Chemical would file for bankruptcy, Carl Trudeau purchased five million shares of the company’s stock in a private transaction. The seller was a fund manager who handled the retirement portfolio of the public employees of Minnesota. Carl had been stalking the stock for months, and the manager was finally convinced that Krane was hopeless. He dumped the stock for $11 a share and considered himself lucky.MoreLess
“We’re up by ten points,” Barry said confidently from his hotel suite.
“Then it’s over?”
“I know of no election in which the front-runner has dropped ten points over the last weekend. And, with all the money we’re spending on m...edia, I think we’re gaining.”
“Nice job, Barry,” Carl said, and closed his phone.
As Wall Street waited for the news that Krane Chemical would file for bankruptcy, Carl Trudeau purchased five million shares of the company’s stock in a private transaction. The seller was a fund manager who handled the retirement portfolio of the public employees of Minnesota. Carl had been stalking the stock for months, and the manager was finally convinced that Krane was hopeless. He dumped the stock for $11 a share and considered himself lucky.MoreLess
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