A week after the release of "The Second Depression", the current box office is only $17 million, ranking only 8th at the North American box office, and it seems that it is completely sorry for the high publicity costs of the giant LED in the Empire Square;

But Yang Zhu took the statistics in his hand, but he was not discouraged at all, and said to Lin Tu, who had just returned from outside: "Is your father's operation going well?"

Prince Lin picked up the mineral water on the table and poured it hard: "Well, the first wave of CDS has been bought, and as you expected, although the book amount of this list is huge, those banks did not hesitate to sign an agreement with us." ”

"When a private bank was talking to our client, he actually asked with a smile, is it that your boss watched the recent movie and had a whim and wanted to make a lot of money?"

Yang Zhu became interested: "Oh, what did you say later?"

Lin Tu laughed: "Our client joked with him and said yes;"

Then the bank's business manager laughed and didn't say anything, but looked at us like fools. ”

Yang Zhu smiled: "Stupid or not, we'll see in two months." ”

Lin Tu watched Yang Zhu still study the statistics of the movie, and couldn't help asking, "How is the number of moviegoers in the community cinema growing?"

Yang Zhu looked at him with some relief, after a few months of polishing, this guy was finally able to grasp the key point of the matter: "It's very good, other types of theaters have a certain degree of diving, but the community theater line is growing against the trend, and the number of moviegoers yesterday has exceeded the 30,000 mark, with an incremental increase of more than 10%. ”

The so-called community cinema line refers to those movie theaters that are set up next to low-income communities dominated by white, Latino, Asian (partial), and African Americans.

Because the quality of the movie-watching groups radiated by these cinemas is generally not very high, and they are extremely scattered, the general film will not take it as a key target when it is released, and even the publicity will ignore this group intentionally or unintentionally;

But unlike ordinary movies, Yang Zhu's most important movie-watching groups this time are these grassroots groups, so they not only spent a lot of energy, but also publicized almost all community theaters and let them put this movie on the shelves;

After the movie was painted, a series of marketing activities with Chinese colors were launched, such as "Watching Movies and Giving Popcorn", "Watching Movies 5 Free 1", "Drawing TV with Tickets" and so on;

You must know that in the United States, movie ticket prices are not high, and the biggest expenditure for watching movies is those drinks and popcorn; if these activities are carried out in mainstream theaters, subject to the difference in the mentality of consumer groups, they may not have much effect, and may even cause counterreactions;

But at present, these groups are two different things, they are subject to life on weekdays, and the movie-watching behavior of spending more than $12 (ticket price + snacks) at a time can be regarded as a more luxurious behavior for them, so whenever there is a new movie, they will always wonder in their hearts, whether it is worth watching;

But now it's different,The most expensive popcorn has a distributor to pay,2.9 US dollars at the box office plus fat house water,A total of no more than 6 US dollars,For them,It's completely affordable,Besides, you can also smoke TV,It's still a 29-inch TV made in China,It is said that it is still 1/500 of the winning rate,How can you not rush to it?

It's just that when these people took advantage of it, they couldn't help but laugh in their hearts: this Chinese director is really a simple and unjust boss.

When Prince Lin on the side heard that the number of moviegoers yesterday exceeded 30,000, he smiled brightly, and he didn't have the consciousness of "wronged boss" at all: "Yang Dada, then shouldn't we let those sailors dispatch?"

Yang Zhu thought about it carefully: "Don't be busy for the time being, endure it for another month, and wait for the second wave of CDS to buy before starting." ”

Prince Lin was a little worried: "Although this can completely avoid startling the snake, it is really uncomfortable to watch the box office leave me like this." ”

Yang Zhu laughed: "Although the water army can't be dispatched, those traditional media can make some topics!"

"After all, Ian's master key is a waste if he is idle!"

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In the next half month, suddenly the movie "The Second Depression" began to become topical;

The reason is very simple, that is, to remove other things, an important plot in the movie is that the "Thunder Brothers" company finally went bankrupt!

Combined with other movie details, a discerning person will know that this so-called "Thunder Brothers" is actually "Lehman Brothers", which is one of the top six companies on Wall Street!

So, starting with a joke from a variety show host, the TV suddenly began to be keen to discuss the future of "Lehman Brothers", some suspected of its financial fraud, and some suspected that its business layout was unreasonable;

But the biggest topic is, what kind of mortal enemy did "Lehman Brothers" provoke, and they did not hesitate to make a movie, and spent so much energy and money to fix it?

Constrained by the tide of public opinion, "Lehman Brothers" had to send many experts to begin to defend and counterattack on various TV programs, and even their own CEO rolled his arms into battle;

There is no way, affected by public opinion during this time, Lehman's stock price has fluctuated, and if it does not make a strong counterattack, the company will suffer serious losses.

Recently, several waves of unknown forces have cocked their tails in the stock market and the financial securities market to hit the waves, and they have been doing it for a long time in order to snipe Lehman Brothers!

This kind of shorting a stock, through various means to expose or hit the reputation of the other company, but it is not uncommon, although the other party's shorting range, there is no Lehman Brothers, but I think it is just a trick to attack the west;

The so-called dead friends don't die poorly, they only need to watch the play on the side, if the time is ripe, it is also a good choice to bite a bite of meat on the end......

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Benefiting from the popularity of the topic, the box office of "The Second Crisis" rarely bucked the trend, bringing the 5th weekly box office in North America in the second week, and the 3rd position directly in the fourth week with a box office of 52 million US dollars;

In a month, "The Second Crisis" collected $160 million in the United States alone, and then activated the key and continued to work in those theaters that were done at the beginning.

After watching the show for more than 40 days, Lin Xiong and his family successfully bought the third wave of CDS, and the financial community in the United States is very sure of two things;

First, there are indeed people who plan to give Lehman Brothers a hard time, and the movie "The Second Depression", which is currently very topical, is their means;

Second, in foreign capital, there is really a group of fools with low IQ, some people actually believe the plot of a movie because it is too realistic, and begin to want to short the US economy on a large scale, don't they know that the United States is sucking the blood of the whole world, as long as the country's credibility and confidence at the social level do not decline, no matter how big the bubble can hold!

That's right, at present, there are several unknown sources of funds that have started their own short-selling behavior, and the amount is still very small, but they are basically focusing their strength on the U.S. stock market, CDS, and it is still Yang Zhu who is singing a one-man show.

After the assessment of Yang Zhu and the old fox, there are currently no less than 30 huge tourist capital forces around the United States, and these floating funds are most likely also discovering the risk of the American economy, but they are subject to the very metaphysical variable factor of "American people's confidence", and most of them are just stretching out their tentacles and lightly touching them.

Those who have invested a huge amount of money now will end up in the end, not surprisingly, there must be two that they already know the roots, as for the remaining three, I can't guess it.

But whatever, this is the time to help the more the better, and with these institutions as a cover, it will be safer when Yang Zhu and them evacuate.

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Although "The Second Crisis" has been offline in many places, the giant LED on the Imperial Square has not been removed, and the lonely "27 days and 14 hours" row of words is particularly dazzling, and everyone who passes by will always be unable to help but glance at it, whether they have seen this movie or not, but anyone who knows the plot of the movie will always have an inexplicable sense of depression, as if something is about to happen......

"Now it's time to start our water army, remember, in strict accordance with the original plan, start in batches, you know, many people are planning to touch our bottom, now on, it can be regarded as dancing on the blade, but we can't easily let people grab our pigtails. Yang Zhu read several stacks of materials, thought for a while, and said to the people around him.

Lin Xiong's face was a little hesitant:

"Virtuous nephew, it's okay for us to use the water army, but this thing that was thrown out, should we think about it again?"

"You know, once this thing spreads on the Internet, it will be a heavy blow to the financial circle in the United States, but for our country, it will also be a wave of disasters!"

Yang Zhu looked at him with a smile: "What, you still want to be a good person?"

"To be honest, although I am also half of the capital circle, I have long been displeased with the behavior of those domestic companies cutting leeks,"

"If you have the ability to go abroad to cut, what's the point of fooling yourself all day long and playing with your own people?"

"Besides, the route we Dahua Investment will take in the future, it will definitely not touch the domestic financial sector, since in fact it has parted ways with some capital institutions, why do you care so much about other people's lives and deaths?"

Lin Xiong's face struggled, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Yang Zhu was a little impatient:

"Anyway, you can do it yourself, if you don't follow my plan, I don't dare to guarantee that the plan will finally achieve results, if it fails......"

"You take the consequences yourself!"

Then he looked at the old fox with malicious eyes: "Hehe, I calculated, the $3 billion on Liu's mother's side, the $7 billion counted by Ian's side, and the more than $4 billion invested [over there];"

"You can explain to them slowly!"

"More importantly, if this plan fails, how are you going to explain it to the above?"

"Could it be that he looks like a good student and told them that he can't bear to affect his peers who specialize in playing bubble games in China, so he changed his plan temporarily?"

Lin Xiong's face was ugly, TMD, he shouldn't have bitten the bait of this little fox at that time, and as a result, he lost his dominance step by step, and now, it is even more difficult, no matter how he chooses, he is still not a human being on both sides after all.

After struggling for a while, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, do as you say!"

After the titular principal gave the order, he slumped on the sofa like a deflated ball, and then stared at Yang Zhu with hateful eyes.

Yang Zhu looked at the old fox who almost gritted his teeth, and said slowly:

"Don't make such an appearance, after all, you just feel that your benefits are not proportional to the risks you take?"

"Don't worry, I have already discussed with Ian a week ago, they will lend us $4 billion, and the interest will be calculated according to the interbank peer loan. ”

"In this way, even if this part of the funds can only be used to buy short in the stock market at present, the profit in the middle is enough to make you a lot of money after the high interest!"

Lin Xiong was suddenly overjoyed: "Really!?"

Yang Zhu rolled his eyes: "Is it fun to tease you?"

After Lin Xiong was excited, he suddenly became suspicious again: "How could Ian lend so much money so easily, you know, now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, they put this 4 billion into it, won't they be able to earn profits far beyond borrowing in an instant?"

Yang Zhu smiled incomprehensibly: "That's because you don't know what they want at all!"

After saying that, he kept silent.

But I thought in my heart, in addition to this reason, what is more important is that these people only dare to hide in the dark at present, and "secrecy" is their first priority, if it were not for the fact that this economic crisis in the United States is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and there are enough fish for them to confuse the public, they would not have invested so generously;

Even so, the $7 billion currently invested in the U.S. stock market is already their limit, and any more, there will be problems;

Hehe, lending money to Lin Xiong can not only make a small profit on the interest rate, but also make their goal further, why not?

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Three days later, the U.S. network suddenly exploded;

The reason is this, a netizen suddenly posted a series of formulas on his social media;

It is claimed that after watching "The Second Depression", the mathematical model in the plot of the movie was restored, and substituted for the fleeting data summary in the movie, and the conclusion was that this mathematical model turned out to be true, and the result calculated with this mathematical model, the collapse of the American economy was really as shown on the LED screen in the Empire Mall, just 24 days later.

For a while, this shocking conclusion was reprinted by countless netizens, and groups of people with attainments in economics and mathematics came to the conclusion after recovering the series of mathematical formulas posted by this netizen and the set of aggregated data that was obviously screenshotted in the cinema - these formulas and results are true!

As a result, the news media seemed to smell the shark of blood, and they took this set of mathematical formulas on their mobile phones and interviewed economics experts and mathematics professors from various universities to verify the falsification;

You must know that this kind of mathematical model can be described as a secret among secrets, and it is the foundation for the survival of major capital institutions, especially companies in the financial industry;

If this set of formulas is true, the people who have studied it are very comfortable to know how much gold is in the securities assets in their hands through this formula, and whether the financial statements of those listed companies are fraudulent;

If it falls into the hands of other capital institutions, it is even more terrifying, they can calculate when they can snipe one stock after another, or directly snipe short a certain market in the United States because of excessive leverage, as long as the means are appropriate, it is completely accurate;

In this case, unless all listed companies and financial securities firms in the United States operate in strict accordance with the real data, they may be stunned by a flying stick at any time;

But how is this possible?

If you can't cheat or play with people's hearts, what does Wall Street rely on to eat?

So after dozens of economists spent a long time studying and calculating in front of the camera, after admitting in public that this set of mathematical formulas is real and valid at the moment, the whole United States became a sensation, and countless people with sufficient mathematical and economic foundations began to calculate this set of formulas, and then posted that shocking set of numbers on their respective social media;

With the wave of "national questions" sweeping the United States, the movie "The Second Depression" has once again surged to the forefront, and countless people have poured into the cinema, one is to worship and worship this masterpiece that stabbed the chrysanthemum of Wall Street, and the other is to dig again, what other "treasures" are there.

So soon, the second drop of water was thrown into the hot oil pot, I don't know which netizen found it, the overdue and disconnected data of the property in the movie is almost the same as the situation around me, and called on everyone to post the data of relatives and friends next to them,

And this call was quickly responded to by many netizens, who posted the data and supporting photos after the survey on the Internet, and it was not much different from the data ratio in the movie.

At this moment, Wall Street couldn't sit still at all, and the rhythm of these two waves was worse than another;

The exposure of that set of mathematical models certainly made them unable to sleep, and they were afraid that they would be sniped as soon as they closed their eyes;

But after all, they can slowly adjust by changing the rules of the game and the form of the product through their own incomparable strength and influence, as long as they can publicize the Congress, and live in the group of foreign "Xiaoxiao" with special orders, at most half a year, they dare to ensure that the set of mathematical models will become history;

However, the second wave of rhythm completely disrupted their calculations, with that "prophet movie" as a reference and guide, coupled with the promotion of this group of netizens who "don't know the height of the sky", this will cause panic at the whole society level while pushing that damn movie to the real altar;

You must know that the reason why financial products dare to make so many bubbles is that the fundamental support point is the people's "confidence", and now, the confidence of the American people in the real estate market is declining rapidly, which is clearly an unprecedented catastrophe for them;

On the one hand, the lobbying action on the part of Congress has just begun, and it will take a long time for the policy to be implemented, and the sniping of capital from all parties may occur at any time;

On the other hand, real estate and the related series of financial turmoil are just around the corner, which is a disaster caused by the root, and they have no effective way at present, so they can only hope that this wave of shocks will come later, so that they can prepare and reduce some losses;

What, you say playing a war of public opinion?

Don't you know that during this time, the giants of Wall Street have joined forces, and various newspapers and television are full of "breaking the chaos and putting things right"? So many endorsed experts and government officials have called on everyone to maintain confidence, but how many effects they have, fools know;

Ay...... This session of the American people is too difficult to bring, and the more they make their own statements, the more they will guess the opposite.

"TMD, who made this broken movie?"

"Lehman Brothers, this bastard, which mortal enemy did you provoke?"

"It doesn't matter if you're done with yourself, but don't implicate us!?"

At eleven o'clock in the evening, after an emergency meeting, the CEO of an investment bank leaned back in the boss's chair and looked out the window at night.

At this time, although some people vaguely feel that something is wrong, most Wall Street institutions still think that the current predicament is caused by a black swan event caused by some guy who does not know the severity of the situation in order to snipe or attack Lehman Brothers or AIG......