Jonathan spoke enthusiastically. He had prepared to explain his thoughts while negotiating with Bluestone’s management for Blue Rock. The documents full of facts and numbers slid down from the desk like falling leaves. Jonathan kept rummaging through files even though he was the one who prepared them. 

“Here it is. This is the point that we can negotiate with ANC. They are neglecting twenty billion dollars of client deposits. If we add up the Blue Rock’s thirty billion, then it’s fifty billion dollars in total.”

The tens of billions of dollars Jonathan was talking about were not ANC or Blue Rock’s money. Those were client funds deposits that their customers had invested, hoping for a profitable return. One notable thing was that some of the funds that ANC successfully raised were from the U.S. government’s pension fund. I looked at the evidence for a while. Of course, even though it was tens of billions of dollars, we both knew that the amount was tiny compared to the entire U.S. pension...