Taking a sip of coffee, Sabrina Rand carefully glanced at the young man opposite again, watching Eric's gaze fall intently on the book, even though it had been more than half a month, her eyes were still full of curiosity. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Half a month ago, Sabrina, who was looking for a part-time job on vacation, received a call from her well-known tutor at the college, saying that a big man wanted to find a temporary tutor to explain some basic knowledge of finance to him, and he could get paid $200 for only 3 hours a day.

The higher the top universities in the United States, the higher the tuition fee, which is actually one of the reasons why nearly half of college students in the United States drop out of school. Except for a few children of the wealthy, most American college graduates will be burdened with some student loans to a greater or lesser extent, and in order to alleviate financial pressure, many students will choose to work part-time during school.

The same is true for Sabrina, who before that worked mostly part-time and was paid only about $10 an hour.

Hearing about the job, which would earn $200 a day for three hours, Sabrina couldn't wait to prepare a resume and give it to the mentor, but she didn't expect much, and although she did well in the department, there were a lot of competitors who were better than her and wanted to get the job.

But two days later, she was notified that she had got a job.

Later, she met with a VP-level executive of the Firefly Group, who seemed to be named Alan Fiessman. She thought that the other party was the person she wanted to tutor, but the other party was just interviewing her, and the two talked casually for half an hour, and then she was asked to sign a confidentiality contract that was more than ten pages long.

To allow a vice president-level executive of the Firefly Group to come forward for such a trivial temporary job, Cybrina was probably vaguely aware of something in the process, but in the end, when she saw Eric herself, Septrina's jaw almost fell in surprise.

The place of work is in Southampton, more than 100 kilometers away from Columbia University in Manhattan, for this temporary job, Sabrina specially stayed at a classmate's house in Bridges City, not far from Southampton, and drove half an hour early every morning to this café in Southampton.

In the first few days, Sabrina spent most of her time explaining a lot of basic knowledge points to Eric, mainly the professional terms in the book "Financial Alchemy" written by financial tycoon George Soros, reflexivity, participant bias, swap hedging, etc., these questions are very basic things for most finance students.

Although she didn't dare to express it, occasionally, Sabrina would inexplicably have some superiority in her heart.

But as the days passed, Eric's daily problems became less and less problematic, and he became more and more tricky, and there were a few times when Sabrina was almost speechless.

Lately, however, more time has seen her feel like a vase, and most of the time, except for the first few questions of the day, Eric is just reading quietly, occasionally thinking, or in a daze.

Perhaps, in a few days, this well-paying job will be lost.

At this time, thinking of the initial sense of superiority, Sabrina couldn't help but feel that she was so stupid. The young man in front of her, who holds the wealth of the most people in the world, is only two years older, and Sabrina can think that maybe she has just obtained a stable job in two years, at most, and she is still 108,000 miles away from her life goal, but this young man in front of her has broken through the limit of wealth that most people can have.

How much money does he have, $46.5 billion, no, it was the year before last, and last year it seemed to be, 67.7 billion, which is really powerless.

After getting along for more than half a month, occasionally, Sabrina will also have some thoughts such as Cinderella, Cinderella, Cinderella, etc., for which she always subconsciously pays special attention to her appearance and dress during this time, and also deliberately bought a new set of cosmetics, but so far, in addition to the book "Financial Alchemy" in front of her Eric's hadn't communicated much else with her, and she hadn't even been to his quarters, he must have lived nearby, and the two could only meet in this café every day, and occasionally he wouldn't show up, and someone would tell her to leave.

Noticing that Eric's gaze was off the book again, and he began to wander, and after a pause, Sabrina suddenly plucked up her courage and said, "Ai ...... Eric, I went to see Titanic with my friends last night. ”

After saying this, Sabrina noticed that Eric's expression paused, raised her head, and seemed to notice that there was a person sitting opposite, and then, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, a little hateful, as if he saw through everything.

Feeling her cheeks slightly hot, Sabrina inexplicably regretted it, but since she spoke, she still insisted on blurting out the idea that had been brewing for a while, "I, and my friends feel that this movie is seriously underrated, and its box office should have been higher. ”

Eric nodded slightly, "Thank you for the affirmation, Sabrina, I'm glad you enjoyed this movie." ”

With that, Eric picked up the book in front of him, and his gaze fell on the page again.

The tanuki's claw-like accosting ended in failure, but Sabrina's heart was a lot easier, and she couldn't give birth to the courage to speak again.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, Sabrina packed up her things, Eric also stood up at this time, and the two walked out of the café together, Sabrina was about to say goodbye to Eric, and went to the nearby road to see if she could catch a taxi or hitchhike back, but Eric reached out to stop her.

"Wait a minute, I'll have someone take you back. Eric said.

Sebrina was stunned for a moment, nodded subconsciously, but her heart was inexplicably a little warmer, she just casually said that her car was broken down in the morning, but she didn't expect him to remember it in her heart. Before that, she had always felt that he was a person with a cold personality, and she suddenly felt that she had wronged him.

Eric took out his cell phone and dialed a call, and the two waited on the side of the road outside the café.

Sabrina quietly carried her bag, paused for a moment, and made up her mind: "Eric, you may no longer need me, maybe, I won't need to come back tomorrow, right?"

Eric looked at the girl and asked, "You still have a long vacation, do you have anything else to do?"

Sabrina thought about it, but shook her head honestly.

"Then continue to accompany me," Eric said with a smile, "I like to be accompanied by people when I read by myself, and besides, you smell good." ”

Sabrina's face turned red and said, "Eric, there should be a lot of ...... around you Would the girl like to accompany you?"

"yes," Eric nodded, "but they won't explain to me what reflexivity theory is." ”

"Then," Sebrina asked again cautiously, "Eric, may I ask, why would you be interested in Mr. Soros's book?"

Eric replied ambiguously, "Something is going to happen, so find out in advance." ”

Seeing that Eric didn't explain what he meant to her in detail, Sabrina didn't ask any questions until more than half a year later, when the world-shaking economic crisis swept across Southeast Asia, and Sabrina understood what Eric's words meant at this time.

The driver drove over, and Eric instructed him to send Sabrina back to Bridges before he returned to the manor.

Unexpectedly, Chris and Emily didn't know when they had arrived, and the two went back to Maryland to accompany Jeffrey during Christmas, but they didn't expect to come back so soon.

Eric hugged the two of them one by one, casually greeting, Chris noticed the book "Financial Alchemy" in Eric's hand, and said with a smile: "You recently hired a little girl, just to accompany you to read this book?"

Eric nodded, not forgetting to joke: "This matter has reached Maryland?"

"I heard about it when Emily and Joan were on the phone," Chris explained.

Emily laughed and teased, "Who knows what he has in mind." ”

Eric ignored Emily's teasing and asked, "Why did you come back so early and stay a few more days?"

"It's not you, who pushes so much work to Chris, but you're so laid-back. ”

Eric looked Emily up and down a few times, looked her hairy, and then said, "If you marry Chris now, I'll take half of his work off him immediately." ”

When Emily heard this, she was immediately ko, and pulled Virginia next to her towards the villa, not forgetting to justify: "Let's go prepare lunch, you two talk." ”

Everyone chuckled.

After the women left, Chris returned to the "Financial Alchemy" just now, and said, "Have you also noticed Soros's movements recently?"

"Soros's remarks about the decline of Southeast Asia's economy are not kept secret, how can I not notice it. ”

The Southeast Asian economic crisis broke out in 1997 in the general understanding, but in fact, as early as the beginning of this year, Soros has begun to frequently make statements about the decline of the Southeast Asian economy, but just as Britain felt that the pound that has been strong for hundreds of years will definitely not depreciate a few years ago, at this time, Southeast Asian countries, which have experienced more than ten years of false prosperity, also feel that their financial systems will not be broken by international funds, so they have not taken any strong measures to prevent it.

At this time, some anxious international currency speculators may have begun to establish short positions in the currencies of Southeast Asian countries, and Eric remembers that in February next year, international foreign exchange speculators represented by Soros have begun to launch a tentative attack on the Thai baht.

Chris couldn't help but think of the incident in the 90s and asked, "What do you think of this time?"

Eric shrugged and said, "Southeast Asian countries are definitely going to be in bad luck this time, and they can't hold on." ”

Chris's eyes flashed, and he said, "And this time, us?"

"I've been thinking about this lately," Eric said, "and we're certainly not going to be able to replicate the miracle of futures profitability during the Kuwaiti war, which was a sudden super black swan event, and almost everyone didn't think Saddam Hussein would dare to invade Kuwait, but he did just that." This time is different, once Soros takes the lead in attacking the Southeast Asian currency market, it will be at least a long tug-of-war that lasts for half a year or even a year, and at that time, the scale of international travel funds involved will not exceed 100 billion, and there will be no advantage in who we enter the market, and the risk will not be lower than others. ”

"And what are you going to do?" asked Chris again.

"Just have fun, take a few hundred million dollars and make a little fuss, although we can't play too big, but we can't do nothing, that's not my style. ”

These days, Eric has been thinking about the coming economic crisis in Southeast Asia, and he certainly wanted to do what he did five years ago, but then found that it simply didn't work.

Very simply, with the current background of the Firefly Group, Eric can easily raise $2 billion in a short period of time, and if necessary, the Firefly Group can also lend more than $1 billion in a short period of time to major banks in the United States.

Ideally, with $2 billion and five times the safety leverage, a short position in Southeast Asian currencies would be $10 billion.

In my memory, the currencies of Southeast Asian countries have basically depreciated by about 50% after the financial crisis, and at that time, Eric will be able to gain about $5 billion on this $10 billion short position.

$5 billion, which is already a very lucrative profit figure, after all, the top few corporate giants in the United States only have this number of profits in a year.

But the fact is that in Eric's memory, the four Asian tigers in Southeast Asia, which suffered the most from the financial crisis, have only more than 100 billion US dollars in foreign exchange reserves of several countries combined, and currency speculation is different from international futures, and the receivers are mainly the banks of various countries that have been attacked, and the source of funds is also the foreign exchange reserves of various countries.

Then, not to mention the later looting of the stock market, bonds, and even the real economy and other industries in various countries, just in terms of currency speculation, a total of more than 100 billion US dollars of 'fat' In the case of wolves, Eric will not be able to establish a short position with a scale of 10 billion US dollars in any case.

You want to swallow up a tenth of the $2 billion principal alone, when other people's more than 100 billion dollars of international travel funds don't exist.

In the Southeast Asian financial crisis in the original time and space, Soros pressed all his family funds at that time, and finally made more than 2 billion US dollars.

Therefore, perhaps those small investors, in the upcoming financial crisis, boldly take a risk, can reap several times the profit, but when the scale of the capital reaches a certain level, the profit ratio will drop sharply, and finally can reap 20% or 30% of the profit, which is good.

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ps: Everyone pulled the air conditioner together, and the street transformer caught fire, embarrassed. Thereupon...... In the distracted chapter, the laptop should have shut down automatically, but luckily I had a USB demodem power cable to connect to the Internet. (To be continued.) )