net worth of the main players in this, fictional terms?

Not a financial expert, just interested in taking wild ass guesses.

1 and 2. Everyone sitting at that table at the Fed was either a billionaire or damn close.

3. When Gekko was released, I'd guess he had a few hundred thousand to a mill tucked away somewhere, or in something the government couldn't seize - like in his primary residence, perhaps, or in jewelry or art or something. Remember, he was renting that place, and probably got a nice big advance on the book.

4. Jake had about 4 1/2 million, maybe 5. He could cover the losses when the stock he bought in Zabel's brokerage took a huge bath - even when he bought the stock on margin. He took about $1.3 million or so of that $1.45 million bonus check and bought the stock in his own company on margin. That means that when it went down effectively to zero (or 3 dollars, same thing), he had to cover those losses - which he did, because he didn't have to declare bankruptcy to do it. So that's about $2.6 million right there, plus $200,000 he gave to his mother. But then when he lost everything, he could only write a check to her for $30,000 or something, and he was wiped out. And on top of that, he owed the bank $1.5 million when he sold his place.

So, adding it all up, that's $4.3 million right there that he was able to take right out of his pocket essentially. Which is pretty sweet, but damn, that's way more than my "walk away number" as he was referring to it.




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