"That's part of the reason we wanted to see you. If, strictly as a
hypothesis, they were to do something like that, as fast as possible,
how long would it take? Just throw your hat at the number, wild guess."
"Time, you mean?"
"Exactly."
"Well, let's look at it a second here. I'd guesstimate that all the
exchanges together--Big Board, American, Merc, CBOT, NASDAQ, Pacific,
the rest--probably have a dollar volume upwards of . . . how many
billions a day? Say twenty billion, easy, maybe more, the way volume's
climbing. But that figure's purely hypothetical. If Dai Nippon dumped
all those securities on the table at once, the value of their portfolio
would go to hell."