By his reckoning, Jorge Pérez may have lost more money than anyone in the 2008 financial crisis. The founder of the Related Group, Florida’s largest property developer, watched $3bn in condominium sales evaporate as buyers walked away from towers that would become emblems of the property crisis. To make matters worse, as Pérez was haggling with lenders over some $2.5bn in debts, doctors discovered a golf-ball-sized tumour in his pancreas that would require 11 hours of surgery.
根據他自己的估計,豪爾赫•佩雷斯(Jorge Pérez)可能是2008年金融危機中損失最多的人。佛羅里達最大的房地產開發商Related Group的創辦人眼睜睜地看著 30 億美元的公寓銷售額化爲烏有,因爲買家放棄了那些將成爲房地產危機象徵的高樓。更糟的是,就在佩雷斯與貸款人就約 25 億美元的債務討價還價時,醫生在他的胰腺中發現了一個高爾夫球大小的腫瘤,需要進行 11 個小時的手術。