Chapter 1104: A Robbery That Justifies It
At 18 Broadway in New York City, on the south side of the corner of Wall Street, another exclamation came from the lobby of the New York Stock Exchange. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Seattle Trail Blazers, which was originally favored by countless investors, fell below the issue price on the day of listing.
The company's main business is extraterrestrial planet exploration, finding planets to live on. Due to the major breakthrough in space telescope technology, it has always been favored by industry insiders or will become the Columbus of the new century. Not long ago, Noah's Ark Fund injected $200 million into this company, and today, it has just been listed, and such an unbelievable thing has happened.
Although it is not uncommon for the U.S. stock market to break on the same day, it is still rare to record a decline that has almost halved on the first day of listing, not to mention that it is still a company that has been favored by countless people before.
What's even more unbelievable is that this is the second Silicon Valley aerospace company to crash to the ground with a hard landing in three days.
"God, you can't do this to me, I've put all my belongings on it!" a white man in a suit squatted on the ground with bloodshot eyes and his head clutched in pain.
No one sympathized with him, and most of the people standing here at the moment were in the same sense of despair.
The performance of the entire Nasdaq sector is terrible, as if all the companies related to the space industry have been knocked back to their original shapes overnight.
I don't know how many investors' mood has fallen to the bottom with the downward parabola.
Compared with those who buy stocks with their own money, many of the people standing here are professional managers working for investment banks and funds, and there are even some Wall Street figures.
At this moment, the expressions on their faces were all solemn without exception. They are well aware that a failed investment would mean the end of their careers, that their mansion could be confiscated by the bank, and that they could not even afford a credit card. And as a capitalist hound, once they lose their sense of smell for money, they will be useless.
It's not just the NASDAQ.
The Dow Jones index, known as the barometer of the U.S. economy, is also faintly pregnant with a storm. Many people who have a premonition of what is going to happen have begun to reduce their holdings of stocks. For this kind of zero-sum game, once the reduction of holdings evolves into a collective behavior, it is difficult to control it.
On the same street, not far from the New York Stock Exchange, in the Morgan Stanley Building, Daniel Morgan was looking at the newspaper in his hand with a gloomy face.
Without warning, he suddenly crumpled the newspaper in his hand and slammed it into the corner of the office, shouting angrily.
"Fifty percent defense tax? These shameless robbers, this is a robbery by Chiguoguo!"
Previously, when Transwarp Trade attracted China, Russia, and Germany to form an Earth Defense Alliance, he hadn't taken it to heart. After all, without the participation of the world's largest economy, what if they can reach an agreement?
If this Earth Defense Alliance is really willing to be on the front line with selfless dedication, he will naturally welcome it with both hands. With the economic strength of four large countries and more than 20 small countries, if they want to shoulder the burden of the defense of extraterrestrial civilizations in one go, and sprinkle money on fortifications and warships that have no return, sooner or later they will not be able to bear it.
Once that happens, Wall Street, with its heavy capital, will be able to take the fruits of their labor as its own as a savior.
And this 50% defense tax was introduced, and Morgan couldn't sit still.
Since the collapse of the Rothschild consortium, global mining giants such as Brazil's Vale and BHP have fallen into the predicament of broken capital chains, and once hovered on the verge of bankruptcy. The emerging mining industry has swept almost one-third of the world's commodity market, stealing market share from Brazil's Vale and BHP Group through cheap and high-grade ore.
In particular, the rare earth ore produced on the moon has been faintly replaced by China as the world's largest rare earth exporter.
It is no exaggeration to say that as soon as the 50% defense tax comes out, the global commodity market will have to trigger a magnitude 7 earthquake.
Of course, for those who are not members.
It wasn't just Daniel Morgan who was outraged, the White House reacted similarly.
Hillary's economic advisers saw at a glance the true intentions of Transwarp Trade.
Of course, they alone cannot eat this piece of fat, so they have also tied China and Russia to their chariots.
If it is the era of the space race, it will be enough, and no matter how developed the space industry is, it will only boost the self-confidence of the people. However, now that the profitability prospects of the space industry are becoming more and more staggering, even growing at a geometric rate, the White House cannot afford to ignore it.
Not to mention, the aerospace industrial parks in Silicon Valley and Seattle have exceeded $1 trillion. If it is kicked off the space elevator at this time, the loss for the United States will undoubtedly be heavy.
"The risk of an economic crisis has emerged, and there may not be much to see in the short term, but if this defense tax persists for a long time, the gap between us and them in the space sector will become wider and wider. We have to do something before it's too late!"
"I propose economic sanctions against new countries suspected of trade protectionism!"
At a regular session of the National Assembly, one of the lawmakers stood up and spoke in fierce terms.
Economic sanctions, the word and what antitrust investigations are completely two different concepts. If the latter is an assault rifle, then the former is a map gun. Depending on the size of the market on both sides, the interests of both sides will be seriously damaged, depending on who can't hold on first.
In the exploitation of the Third World, the stick of economic sanctions of US imperialism is invincible. The use of poverty to force the sanctioned side to compromise has been playing this trick since the Cold War era.
However, this time, there was a rare lack of reaction in Congress, and even very different voices appeared.
"Our immediate priority now is to negotiate with Transwarp Trade to minimize the impact of the defense tax on the U.S. space industry, rather than allowing the conflict to escalate further and spread to other areas. A Republican congressman stood up and raised objections.
The opposition is not uncommon. Soon, another councillor stood up.
"Second, if it turns into a trade war, I believe we can win in many areas, but we will lose badly in the high-tech field. Especially the virtual reality network, no modern country can leave the virtual reality network, and we simply cannot afford to lose this loss. ”
"In addition, there is a rather crucial point," said the congressman, glancing around the other councilors in the room, and said helplessly, "At this time, we have no standing in public opinion to sanction the Earth Defense Alliance. Before the meeting began, I followed the official website of the White House. The number of applications for the White House to join the Earth Defense Alliance has exceeded 70 million, of which 20 million have come from North American ......"
The MPs in the room looked at each other.
What they feared most finally happened. (To be continued.) )