"Chocolate muffins, with maple sugar?"

Lina, the fat hostess in the school cafeteria, winked at Daniel - the lovely lady in her 40s seemed to be enjoying herself. Whenever Daniel comes to eat at this restaurant, he always gets some extra giveaways. Today's wink, or the flying kiss two days ago.

"Yes, Lina, add maple sugar, I remember I said it."

"You have to be considerate of a low-level worker who is not too old, Mr. Big Star."

Daniel pouted, you don't look like a low-level worker.

"You should try our donuts, which are also chocolate-flavored, with a cup of freshly ground coffee, and wow, it's a great day."

"So it's bigger inside. Hemp? ”

"What are you talking about, how can you throw such an expensive thing into it, the chef himself is not enough to suck it."

Daniel takes his chocolate muffin and routinely retreats from Lina.

Stiller had already finished off two doughnuts, "Daniel, you seem to enjoy arguing with Lina?" ”

"Interesting, isn't it?"

"I can't understand it, but can I imagine that it may be the high-ranking rich people who can get some freshness from this kind of communication full of low-level atmosphere, which is what you call 'meaning'? Is that so? Is there a problem with my understanding? ”

Daniel took a bite of his muffin, and I have to say that some of the restaurants in Berkeley are really good, and some of the snacks in this one are very good, and the maple sugar is very fresh.

"Maybe, after all, I often go to high-end restaurants, and this kind of small place certainly gives me some novelty, just like if you go to George's on Fifth Avenue, you will be curious." Daniel said with an unchanged expression.

Stiller looked up at him from his plate full of donuts.

"Oh, you look like a rich man with an ugly face now."

A benefit of the on-campus cafeteria. It's just that there is no strict etiquette here, and there is no sign of being kicked out by the restaurateur for someone with a strong voice like Stiller. But his voice was clearly too loud, and the two girls sitting behind them laughed.

"Hey, Lola?" Daniel was stunned, one of them was actually at the opening party. The queen of the last party who invited him to perform with him.

"Daniel, can we sit together?"

“…… Of course," Daniel asked Stiller with a look in his eyes, but the man clearly had no intention of rejecting the two beauties.

Lola and her companions sat down with their own food.

Kale, tomatoes, kiwi - two plates of fruit and vegetable salad with vinaigrette instead of salad dressing.

"This is Sissi."

"Princess Sissi? Wow. Stiller's eating face suddenly became gentle, "Hello, I'm Stiller. Rose, Daniel's roommate. ”

"Hello." Being teased and Romy. Schneider plays the Austrian princess of the same name. It doesn't affect Sissi's mood, in fact, it was originally a beautiful and elegant image, and it couldn't be better for the girls who pursue a lady's style.

The short breakfast time was soon over, and Lola and Sissi said goodbye to Daniel without any nostalgia.

Stiller winked his eyes at Daniel.

"How's this acting? She's a goddess at Berkeley. ”

"It can be used as a vase for a low-budget movie."

"Wow, that's not an easy assessment."

Lola's intentions can't be hidden from Daniel. Even Stiller, who was interested in Daniel - the queen who was supposed to be at the front of the school party. After she delayed Daniel's arrival, it was only in the F2F Berkeley circle yesterday that someone said that Daniel and Stiller were frequently present at the restaurant, and today they met Lola and her companions.

It's interesting, but it's also straightforward.

Daniel didn't care what Lola was going to do. On top of that, he doesn't intend to have a wonderful campus romance with his classmates at Berkeley, so whether Lola is really what Stiller thinks or not, doesn't need to be considered much for Daniel.

……

Daniel who had just finished class. He was stopped by a gentleman who was dressed quite formally.

Introducing himself as the head of the Berkeley Student Business Association, he wanted to invite Daniel to a small forum they organized—a forum that was not just a salon model, but an open, public-facing place, small or large.

Apparently, they intend to seize the opportunity to ask Daniel, a super-rich alumnus, to take the stage.

Berkeley's well-known alumni are all over the world, and the professors are also leading experts in their fields, so the forum itself is quite high-end - which is probably why they came to Daniel.

"What is the theme? There's always a theme, right? ”

"It's about the impact of the Fed's 17 consecutive rate hikes, and it's very broad, and we want you to attend the conference in the Internet space."

Under this gentleman's introduction, Daniel understood that this was not a business forum for the industry, but a relatively pure academic forum. Since June this year, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to the highest level since the 2000 stock market crash, at 5.25%, and has raised interest rates 17 times – arguably making the financial community talk.

Daniel certainly knows what that means, and the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis started with high interest rates that left borrowers with mortgages unable to repay, and large numbers of homes entering the market because they couldn't pay their loans, causing house prices to plummet, further exacerbating liquidity pressures on commercial banks and those that invested in commercial bank bonds – and ultimately the global financial crisis.

Lehman Brothers, who is still in full swing, has trillions of assets, but since the crisis, they have to file for bankruptcy protection, which is something that no one could have imagined.

Daniel did not feel that he was capable of fighting this trend - the trend became a trend because there was a powerful force behind it, and Daniel had no intention of taking the opposite side of this force right now, and Protos's tens of billions of assets were far from being a match for this force.

So, he politely declined the invitation.

This was obviously a bit of a surprise to the other side - the forum was small, but the participation of several Nobel laureates in economics and many industry experts made it highly valued by business leaders.

But Daniel was clearly serious, and when he was approached a second time by the forum organizers, he made it clear that he was not currently present as a representative of Plutos Investments. If they're interested in inviting Plutus to participate, ask them to contact Raymond.

He is reluctant to come out and be shot, but he is even more reluctant to stand up and talk nonsense. (To be continued.) )

PS: Adjusted to 2000 words, I hope to have more exposure, attract two new readers, there is no recommendation, and the subscription has been dropping