Chapter 1271 The most important thing in life is salted fish
Jokes aside, but the probability of the Icelandic government defaulting on its debts is very high, Iceland and Argentina are not the same, just like now, John Bull has used the anti-terrorism law to freeze all Icelandic assets in the UK to protect the safety of domestic depositors' funds.
The reason why Britain is so nervous is mainly due to the fact that it is attracted by high interest rates, and more than 100 municipal councils in the UK have 1 billion pounds of tax in Icelandic banks. The London Metropolitan Police has £20 million in its bank in Iceland. Much of this is counter-terrorism funding, so British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has used his little-used counter-terrorism law powers to freeze Icelandic assets.
But Britain did not dare to force Iceland to be anxious, at present, Iceland is just trying to ask for help, but most of them will be rejected by the not very good woolly bears, of course, if it is really urgent, Iceland may not learn from Argentina to sell the island to survive.
This Nima will make European countries fall into the trap, you must know that global warming has opened the Arctic Ocean Road, and it will be an absolute tragedy to let the woolly bear settle in. Relatively speaking, it is quite acceptable to sell assets to the people of the Celestial Empire, after all, it is beyond the reach of the whip.
So everyone guesses and summarizes that Iceland is better than not paying off, Andy and his subordinates can guess, John Bull can naturally guess, but for Iceland, the premise is that there is another big tui to hold, a woolly bear and a rabbit, one is powerful and the other is rich. As for John Bull, he can only swallow the bitter fruit.
Listening to the words of his subordinates, Andy has been listening quietly and thoughtfully, in his previous life, although he knew that Iceland was in crisis and the government was facing bankruptcy, but then for some reason, the information after Iceland's bankruptcy was blocked or refrigerated intentionally or unintentionally, and he was only listening to it as a joke at that time, and he didn't care.
Europe has always given the impression of being economically developed, picturesque, culturally vibrant, castles, ballet, classical music...
Most of the time, people's impression of Europe is simply a paradise on earth, with a comfortable living environment, a safe social atmosphere, and a perfect welfare system...
Once Icelanders were arguably the hardest working people in Northern Europe, the gap between rich and poor in Iceland was very small. Iceland's welfare system is one of the best in the world.
However, only 300,000 people, 9 surnames, and inbreeding Viking descendants saw Wall Street's success and shouted "we can do it too", and after a while they did succeed and became richer.
If you have money, you naturally want to start pursuing a luxurious lifestyle. All kinds of luxuries, traveling everywhere, buying a car, buying a house, buying a house...
Iceland quickly became the place with the most luxury off-road vehicles in the world, and every family used a mortgage to buy a house. Credit and debit cards are more than twice the total population.
Perfect welfare can breed irresponsible people, and a comfortable living environment can lead to overall inprogress.
As Andy delved into the financial industry, he found that high-welfare states such as Iceland, Greece, Germany, and the United States were tied up by ropes of his own making. The name of this rope is credit.
Credit, advanced consumption, in fact, to put it more bluntly, is the greed, fear and Y of every country, nation, and individual.
Under the financial turmoil, they died not at the hands of others, but at their own hands.
Either way, the myth of Iceland has come to an end. The borrowed money, although it could be rich for a while, eventually dragged the country into the abyss.
"The noise of the world will eventually cease, and all the glory and wealth will be like a cloud of smoke. When everything is over, you will find that the most important thing in life is salted fish... ”
Andy, who touched his chin, couldn't help but shake his head and smile, and sighed in the words of Nobel Prize winner Hader.
"Boss, we have made a profit of more than 300 million euros from the foreign exchange rate of the Icelandic krona, which is equivalent to more than 400 million US dollars, mainly because the entry speed of international speculators is very fast, even if we make judgments and preparations in advance, we can only grab so much. ”
Andy, who was still sighing at the salted fish before, immediately showed a happy smile on his handsome face, waved his hand and said: "Everyone, you have done a very successful job, I know that in the past week or so, your all-night work, almost continuous, very hard, although I would like to give you a holiday, but I believe that you will never be happy to accept, after all, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make money, whoever misses it will regret it... ”
Andy's mood is undoubtedly the happiest with funds in the account, and he has not forgotten to continue to drive and spur his subordinates to give him more hard work, even if he knows that this group of subordinates worked in the previous foreign exchange futures market 24 hours a week, he does not want to slack off and miss this opportunity because of complacency.
After all, his advantage is only a few years of memory, and Andy, who is accustomed to seeing the world from God's perspective, can only squeeze the gains frantically in the time he has the advantage, and build a fortress and confidence that is enough to resist any risks, he doesn't want to become a tragedy where there is nothing but salted fish in the end.
With Andy's generous rewards, a deep understanding of the horror of the financial turmoil and the insecurity it causes, watching other peers lose their jobs, unable to pay their loans, and become homeless, there are vivid examples happening around us one after another, and what can make people feel more secure than being able to make money!
Rest? not at all!
There is nothing more morale-boosting than the pound sterling and the dollar, morale is high, not only in the London branch, but also in the footbasin branch, and the most exaggerated is the American headquarters, Andy even heard that this group of bastards has become very crazy now, in order to refresh himself, to keep himself excited, the Liberty City Investment Company has become a bit of a miasma.
And Bardstone did not stop the crazy behavior of this group of people, he also came from a young age, and naturally knew the madness of Wall Street, especially in good years, when making a lot of money, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars passed through his hands every day, and he earned a large sum of dollars through his own hands, and he would get a reward in every profit, this kind of mental stimulation and excitement is incomprehensible to ordinary people.
There are a lot of harsh but realistic words circulating on Wall Street in private, which always inspires the people here to go crazy.
"If even crowding the bus doesn't motivate you to improve your life, there's nothing else. ”
"Black Friday shopping spree is the Paralympic Games of capitalism. ”
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And so on, many of these big truths that cannot be publicized publicly, full of all kinds of discrimination, but to the point, stimulate and spur this group of people to keep moving forward, because those who can't do it have already gone to MG Stanley...
Crazy Wall Street doesn't fall because of a crisis.
To this day, even with claims that the crisis is "once in 100 years", Wall Street has not wavered in its belief in financial derivatives trading. Even Paulson is only emphasizing the issue of self-discipline on Wall Streeters.
Of course, the sins of Wall Street had completely angered the entire American society by this time. The $700 billion bailout package is equivalent to making every American come up with more than $2,000.
With no one able to tell the size of the black hole in the financial markets, and fearing that Wall Street would make a fortune, angry Nashui people took to the streets to warn lawmakers in their constituencies in various ways to resist the bailout plan.
Andy's cheap dad Auston received 2,000 emails and phone calls in a single day, the vast majority of which urged parliament to veto the bailout plan.
All this will not affect Andy in the slightest, the only thing he has to do now is to let his group of hungry wolves help him scrape together enough dollars for him to complete his plan, as for the rest, he chooses to block automatically.
"If life is a game, money is my way of scoring. And I wanted my life to end up being like playing a low-difficulty Call of Duty. That is, just walk around, shoot people... Andy smiled disapprovingly and said to Li Xiaoying, who appeared in a nightdress without makeup.
And after Li Xiaoying's mouth pulled unnaturally, she glanced at her speechlessly, she was really defeated by Andy's idea.