"So, after the divorce, you lost your children, lost your family, lost your house, and had to pay high child support, so you went bankrupt, lost your job, and ended up on the streets?"

Everyone finally understands what's going on now, this guy is not a homeless man at all, he was forced to wander out after being forced by society, but there is indeed a problem with this sentence, it seems that no one is born with the desire to wander......

The homeless man nodded, looking rather sad.

"And what did you do before?"

Joanna asked with some curiosity, listening to what he meant, his work should have been quite good before, otherwise he might have stayed at home to take care of the children before.

"Well, it's in this building across the street!"

The three of them looked back and saw the Rockefeller Building across from them.

The three of you look at me, I look at you, and they all feel a little incredible.

"What did you do before?"

"An investment consultant mainly does some investigation and audit work. ”

The homeless man said with a smile, mentioning his previous identity, he is still very proud, many rich people have come here to find them, looking for them to invest in financial management, after all, where the money is put cannot automatically appreciate, the bank interest in the United States is much higher than that of Europe, but such interest is still too low compared to the CPI, and the rich will never obediently store money in the bank, they will not dislike the money in their hands too much, but only dislike the money in their hands is too little, and there is no way to let them play their full strength。

"So, how much did you earn from your previous salary?"

Lin Quan is a little curious, there are too many myths on Wall Street, and the Wall Street one-step movie made people feel more curious about this financial center that controls the whole United States and even the world, and the name of Wall Street has been known to the world since then.

Wall Street is not big, from Broadway to the East River, there are only seven stages, the total length is only more than 500 meters, and the width is only ten meters, which is not much different from the ordinary pedestrian streets in China, and even more narrow, plus there are many high-rise buildings here, from the visual effect, it is more narrow and more crowded.

However, the people who can work here are the elite of the United States.

Americans have devoted all their minds to finance, and for decades have been keen on the financial industry that is easier to make money, constantly speculating in their tertiary industry, and even gradually transferring their own domestic manufacturing industry, bent on becoming a country that dominates the world by relying on the financial industry!

Behind them stands the Federal Reserve and the US federal government, powerful, using capital and political cash to kidnap the government, using huge debts to kidnap the Federal Reserve, thus making state institutions a tool in their own hands, which makes them fruitful and has not missed for decades!

However, the capitalists are too greedy, and they have reached out to everyone in the country, digging out all kinds of loans, buying rating agencies, and then selling these assets to make a profit, and then repeating the process, and finally the financial crisis broke out in 2008!

The financial crisis of 2008 hit the United States enormously, and the domino effect put the major investment banks on Wall Street in jeopardy.

Lehman, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan...... A large number of banks and investment banks had a debt crisis and a credit crisis, and soon there was a run, and then the capital chain was in a hurry, and the Americans tried everything to save their greedy capitalists, and only one Lehman Brothers fell, which was acceptable.

However, this crisis has completely exposed the fragility of the United States in the eyes of everyone, and everyone has discovered that the strength of the world's most powerful country is actually pretended, and the bones inside are rotten.

Although it has been nearly 6 years since the crisis of '08, by the beginning of 2014, the US economy has basically recovered, of course, in these six years, they have used the credit of the dollar, printed trillions of dollars, transferred their own problems, transferred to other countries, such as Europe, such as Asia, such as South American countries, and so on.

After all, the dollar is a global currency, and they print dollars wildly, and the dollar can still have purchasing power, so countries have no good way to deal with it except for following quantitative easing.

Before the financial crisis, the wages of these people on Wall Street were very high, but after the financial crisis, their wages should have been greatly affected, and it is not known whether this person lost his job when the financial crisis broke out, or after that.

"It's not much, barely enough to make ends meet, hehe, if it weren't for the bad business, I wouldn't be living on the streets!"

The homeless man didn't say anything specific, apparently he didn't feel the need to reveal too much.

"Well, this money is for you, thank you for answering my question!"

Joanna gestured to Lin Quan and the others, Lin Quan shook his head, they didn't have any questions to ask, so Joanna gave the stack of money in her hand to the other party, anyway, there was not much money, besides, it was useless for her to take the money.

"It's my pleasure, goodbye!"

The homeless man smiled and took off his hat to show them respect.

Lin Quan and the others left quickly, and Broadway was not far away.

Speaking of which, such an unreasonable law in the United States has probably destroyed a lot of families!

This guy is really pitiful, according to him, the reason why he became a homeless man is because his salary income has declined and he can't afford to pay the high amount of child support, after all, according to the consumption standards before the crisis broke out, the amount of child support is very large.

And the original standard is not very practical now, because the money is too much, the concept of early consumption and overdraft consumption is very popular in the United States, 08 years ago is very serious, Americans basically have no deposits, credit cards and bank cards basically have no money, but overdraft consumption, so once a crisis occurs, income is affected, almost immediately bankruptcy.

And most of their things are bought with loans, and once their income is affected, those things that originally belonged to them will not belong to them in an instant, and they will become the assets of the bank.

In this case, it is only a matter of time before they go from the middle class or even the rich class to destitute the poor.