When the first snow of winter fell on New York State, it was exactly November 22, just 11 days later than November 11. The snow was far more intense than the weather station announced www.biquge.info, and when many residents woke up overnight, they were surprised to find that the whole city seemed to be covered in snow, and even Toronto could not compare.

"The temperature is low today, so please prepare for the cold and pay attention to the arrival of moderate to heavy snow. In addition, a stream of cold air wafting from the North Atlantic ......"

A replay of yesterday's weather forecast came to the TV, and now it was true, lying on the living room couch in his bachelor apartment in Queens, New York, Harry Puness, who had just woken up, was eating after-dinner potato chips while switching between stations and listening to the news from various channels.

Recently, Harry, who is in his early twenties, has found a job doing regular maintenance for computers on the New York Stock Exchange with his advanced computer skills. Because he showed his unparalleled skills in front of executives, he even had the privilege of going to the exchange every three days, and his salary was still calculated as a monthly salary.

According to Harry's judgment, his job was obviously the harvest of the incident in March this year. Although from the perspective of a single incident, IBM's case ended with its recent successive defeats and tens of millions of dollars in losses to Microsoft and Nasdaq respectively, the whole world that finally became one can be regarded as being turned upside down by this incident.

Since May, the Nasdaq exchange itself has taken the lead, and the world's largest stock exchanges, such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, have all started a wave of large-scale recruitment of senior programmers, and none of them have not paid very high salaries.

Even according to Harry's understanding, those computer science students who graduated in June this year, especially Stanford and several other Ivy League schools, suddenly ushered in a wave of employment. Not only the major exchanges, but also many investment companies on Wall Street, many companies that have a deep relationship with the network are also spending huge sums of money to recruit network administrators, and the more highly educated, the more exaggerated the salary increase, as if there is a kind of academic situation!

For a while, when September came again, the computer departments of major colleges and universities even ushered in a round of enrollment boom. When many new high school students learn that those seniors who are four years older than their college students can easily enter some rather high-end companies at the same time as graduation with a computer science certificate, it seems that there is no suspense in choosing a major.

Harry was one such beneficiary, and as a New York University dropout, he was still a little worried about finding a job. You know, just because of the fact that I dropped out of school, although the parents at home didn't say it, they were disappointed. Now it's good, easy to solve!

Therefore, this also makes Harry young, and he has the capital to go to work only once in three days, and often only half a day to finish work. Working 30 hours a month, but receiving a high monthly salary, he has been laughing to death in his dreams recently!

"Hmm...... Nothing seems to be to look at. ”

At this moment, he sat lazily on the sofa, and after breakfast, while all the office workers in New York were struggling on the morning rush hour, he was worried about not knowing which TV show to watch.

"Let's take a look at Japan Watch."

After thinking about it, it seemed that it was time for the show to start, so Harry switched the channel to a certain station.

"Japan Watch" is a program that was launched three years ago, that is, around 83, just when the Japanese economy began to boom. The program is held once a week to observe the country's economic development in real time, and of course, there are occasional references to trends in the cultural industry, such as when the new Gundam anime is released, the narrator dedicates a special episode to the development of Japanese animation in the past decade.

And after this episode began, Harry discovered that it was dedicated to introducing Japanese investment in the United States.

"We're in a worrying situation right now, and believe it or not, Japan has invested three billion dollars in our Hawaii from last November to the same time this year, specifically for real estate investment."

The TV host said anxiously: "According to the statistics of our reporter who went to Hawaii, in the past year, one-third of the luxury hotels in the Pearl Harbor beach area, as well as a large number of buildings, large restaurants and shopping centers, as well as two golf courses, as well as many livestock farms and plantations, have been managed by Japanese capital." ”

"According to statistics, from November 1980 to the same period in 1986, Japanese direct investment in the United States has increased by about eight times. This is a very frightening situation, and one of the most obvious statistics is that Japan's financial power already accounts for 25% of the daily trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange! ”

"We can't help but think, is the United States really going to sunset? Will the country of the sun in the east really rise up and buy our entire country as they wish? ”

Seeing this, Harry changed the channel before the experts invited in later began to speak.

"Isn't this nonsense just trying to create a negative image of Japan among the people?"

With such a sneer, Harry had changed the channel back, and the new guest was a certain expert in Japan, who began to judge the purchases and purchases during this time.

"It's right to say that the focus of investment is real estate right now."

Ignoring the experts on TV, Harry muttered to himself: "When a country has a great economic development, it will definitely experience a real estate wave, but it is clear that it will definitely plummet." ”

If there is any difference between Harry and the rest of his classmates, it is that he knows how to use various ways to understand countless things that ordinary people don't care about at all. After a long time, even if you call yourself a miscellaneous scientist, you can do it. He understood the concept of a financial bubble as early as the sixth grade, and the current situation in Japan is obviously a real estate bubble!

You know, for the vast majority of countries, even if there is a real estate bubble, it will be at most one or two times the price of a real estate bubble over a long period of time, and the speed and degree of Japan have long exceeded this category, and almost anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a typical bubble form.

Just like in the United States, Harry investigated the history of real estate prices in the United States for the sake of this incident in Japan when he was bored earlier.

He went back a hundred years, set the price at 100 in 1890, 120 in 1900, and then fell back to where he was in a matter of months. During the Great Depression of the twenties and thirties, housing prices fell to a trough of 6 or 70, and during World War II, even the effects of Roosevelt's New Deal were erased, and they have been hovering in this range. But with the advent of the Golden Age, prices immediately and steadily recovered, returning to the 1900 level in an instant.

That's right, Harry clearly found that except for the 40% crash during the Great Depression, housing prices in the United States have been in the range of 10% increase and fall for a whole hundred years, that is, after entering the 80s, the peak once exceeded 20%, and then fell back in a few months.

But what the hell is Japan doing now?

In 1985, the price index for commercial land in Tokyo was 120, but now, just a year later, its price has soared by more than 60%!

If Harry remembers correctly, it seems that at the beginning of this year, it was still 20%?

God, even if the United States is experiencing the Great Depression, it will only plummet by 40%, right!?

It took half a year for Japan to achieve a 60% surge!?

And the momentum isn't over yet!?

Harry had already told his online buddies that if it wasn't a bubble, he would be cut off from the Internet!

Oh yes, Harry has always been a geek. Geek, originally used to refer to intellectual excellence and hard work, is now used to describe people who have a fanatical interest in computer and network technology and devote a lot of time to it. What new meanings will be in the future is a matter for later, and as far as Harry feels now, he certainly deserves that title.

So, being at ease on the Internet as a hacker has of course become an essential hobby.

In fact, Harry gave himself the funny code name HP.

Speaking of which, as early as two years ago, Harry met a kid on the Internet, and the nickname of the other party was km, a rather arrogant guy who claimed to have hacked into the North American air protection command system many years ago.

Harry and Zeng discussed the IBM incident, analyzed the technical feasibility, and even went around the Nasdaq exchange network in person. It turns out that if they are willing to take a while and carefully study the relevant program logic, they can really affect the statistical results of the call auction in the system!

However, just as Harry was gloating over IBM, KM came up with an ingenious idea.

"Could it be that there are other super hackers here who deliberately hacked IBM?"

This idea can be there, this idea can really be there, and after the two of them proved the possibility of such a measure together, the truth of such a guess naturally rises indefinitely. It's not surprising that IBM's masters can do it, but since the two of them can also do it......

How many computer gurus are hidden in the whole American society?

It's a pity that Harry hasn't been able to see KM live lately. He obviously said that the next time they met, he would greet him with a picture of a beautiful woman composed of the number 8, but now he is gone.

What is KM doing?

Harry said he was genuinely interested. (To be continued.) )