He began arranging for his firm’s fifty employees to abandon their midtown Manhattan offices. He put on doomsday hedges. And then he pulled an enormous amount of cash from an ATM. By the time the Dow Jones Industrial Average was plunging seemingly a thousand points a day, Ackman’s $5.6 billion firm was making money amid the chaos.

他开始安排公司的50名员工离开他们位于曼哈顿中城的办公室。他进行了世界末日对冲。然后他从自动取款机上取了一大笔钱。当道琼斯工业股票平均价格指数(Dow Jones Industrial Average)每天暴跌1000点的时候，阿克曼的这家市值56亿美元的公司却在一片混乱中实现了盈利。