The China Hustle Movie Script

That's short them.

Okay.

Graduating with a 1.6... - I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

- There's two things there.

One, I had no idea I actually graduated.

Carol read something about something going on in China right now, where they've discovered what they think to be aliens.

Wasn't it deep down, they found 'em?

Well, that would be a new wrinkle.

Well, that would make what I've been doing the last three years a waste.

Nothin'.

- Thousands of years ago.

- Yeah.

Yup, I think he might not come home in one piece.

At the end of the day, investors counting on the SEC to save them from their own lack of due diligence, or greed, are kidding themselves.

We have more opportunity in our markets than anywhere in the world.

But, at the same time, we don't have a regulator that looks over our, our filings and says, "I want to protect the public from this." Our system... you know, we file with the SEC, and the SEC reads the disclosure, and they comment on, on the disclosure.

They don't determine whether it's viable to be public or not.

They don't make that determination.

They let the free market make the determination.

The SEC should do its job.

Your job is to look out for investors, but you've put the interests of the Chamber of Commerce and their big-business members at the top of your priority list.

It is the SEC's job to protect investors.

But it was chartered in the 1930s, at a time when stock prices rolled off of ticker tape and the markets closed at four.

Now, they're outgunned and outmanned, like Keystone Cops chasing the starship "Enterprise." Even if the SEC gets its entire wish list of documents from the company and they have enough evidence to pursue a case, the Chinese people responsible for this, don't really care.

When somebody breaks the law here, there is a process where they're accountable.