Chapter 192: Earn Anything!
After caring about his sister's lifelong events, Li Weimin changed his words: "Qingqing, how many stocks do we hold now?" ”
Li Weiqing cocked his long legs very unladylikely, crossed his arms and smiled proudly: "There are more than 160 of them, most of which are blue chips such as American Steel, Motorola, General Electric, Texas Instruments, and HP. The whole market is soaring, and investment in electronic stocks is rushing, and every newly issued electronic stock is regarded as a second Xerox company, which is sought after all the way. We also bought some, but the proportion of the total investment is not high. ”
"Irrational speculative impulses?"
"Brother, you don't come here often, you don't know the Wall Street investment market, or you can't keep up with the times. The public did not trust the government or the bureaucracy, but it had confidence in the economy, and it poured its confidence into large corporations such as the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Litton Industrial Company, and the Sprinter Kovaether Company, which in turn drove them into one merger frenzy after another.
Go down and take a spin and you'll find that the world has gone crazy. Even obscure stocks such as the American Music Association have become stock market darlings by calling themselves "Space Sound Electronics Company." In the era of speculation, a simple subject can raise the price of a stock to the sky. ”
Li Weimin took a report, and Qingqing continued: "There is also the 'National Student Marketing Company', which was sold to the public at a price of $6 per share, and the stock price soared to $82 per share within a year. I was initially intrigued, but after researching, it turned out that a guy named Colt Sweesley Randall had come up with the idea of putting together a lot of companies that nominally dealt in items related to young people, such as book companies, record companies, and youth air travel card companies. Packaged together for listing.
borrowed a new favorite of the public's crazy pursuit of the theme 'young people'. Build an inexplicable business empire.
Don't look at that Randall is only 30 years old. In fact, he is cunning and cunning. He cursed his sweet words with securities analysts to please them, took them on vacation at his castle in Virginia, and talked to them on the phone on his jet.
Take advantage of every opportunity and make a statement that your ROI will increase by 3 times. And every time, he was able to reach his goals – albeit without the assistance of a corporate accountant. In the end, it won the trust of Wall Street and pushed the stock price higher. Even the Bankers Trust, the Morgan Guarantee Trust, and the Harvard Endowment bought his stock. ”
The bull market is like this, no matter what junk stocks you buy, you can make money.
Li Weimin couldn't help laughing: "This doesn't mean that those leaders in the investment world are particularly susceptible to being deceived. The reason for this is that they are afraid that after they live in the future, they are faced with the choice of either buying popular stocks, after all, they are all appreciating; Or risk falling behind for a while. ”
His own family, the Bank of East Asia, has been running a "stock exchange" for six years.
Qingqing is not an investor in the ordinary sense, but a bookmaker among the market makers, who sees it through the same and says with a smile: "And those fund managers who lag behind other funds can't even get new capital injections in one or two quarters." In this age of speculation, they have no choice but to increase their positions. ”
"How do you do that?"
"I bought some when I first went on sale, and when it went up to $70 per share, I sold it all. Be content and be content to continue to buy those newly issued high-tech stocks and concept stocks with the cashed out funds. ”
If memory serves. The stock price of the National Student Marketing Corporation can rise to $140.
However, continuing to hold on is not only risky, but also takes up money and wastes time. Take it when you see it. Closing a position early, and then buying new shares with those crazy investment institutions, will never make any less profit than hanging from a tree.
Li Weimin was very pleased, put down the report and said with a smile: "Just operate like this, except for blue chips, other stocks should be delivered, and there is no need to take that risk." ”
It is never easy to get the affirmation of my brother.
Qingqing grinned and said: "Now the United States is like ice and fire, the external environment, especially diplomacy, is passive everywhere, but the domestic economy is booming. Continued 14 months of rapid growth, building millionaires at a rate of 5,000 per day, earning anything, making money every minute, not to mention no time, even if sometimes I am reluctant to go back. ”
She is not exaggerating.
Now the United States has completely emerged from the post-World War II economic recession, with low inflation and high growth, and has entered a new era. Young countercultures had their own music, styles, and ideas, the feminist movement was on the rise, and the Beatles released their own albums. The typical American family is "a 40-year-old housewife, teenage children, and a fairly successful husband."
In short, the richest country in the world is getting richer and richer.
In South Vietnam, the Li family is the richest man in the world.
On Wall Street, where the rich are gathered, the Li family diversifies their investments through many offshore companies, which is not at all conspicuous. Like many tycoons who do not want to appear in the public eye, they enjoy the dividends of the economic development of US imperialism and become a member of the invisible rich club.
As for the external environment, it is, as she says, very passive.
On April 12 this year, at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time, the Soviet Union launched the Vostok 1 manned spacecraft into space at the Baikonur cosmodrome. Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin circled the Earth in an orbit 301 kilometers above the surface for 1 hour and 48 minutes, returned safely at 10:55 a.m. and landed in the area of the village of Smerovka, Saratov Oblast.
The Americans have always believed that they are God's chosen people and that the United States is the richest and most powerful country in the world, but after the Soviets took the lead in sending artificial satellites into space, they once again completed the world's first manned space flight ahead of the United States, realizing mankind's desire to go into space.
I was just shocked, and I haven't reacted yet.
On April 17, five days after the Soviet Union sent astronauts into space, the U.S. invasion of the Bay of Pigs on the southern coast of ancient Brazil ended in a "complete failure."
When the action was revealed, there was a global outcry of condemnation and disgrace, so much so that the newly inaugurated President Kennedy had to appear on a television screen to accept the colossal mistake without reservation.
Immediately afterward, the Soviet Union conducted a super-powerful nuclear test. On the development of nuclear weapons, which has a bearing on national and even global security, it has lagged behind and surpassed the United States.
A few days ago, the Soviet Union used barbed wire and masonry as materials to build a border wall of more than 100 kilometers in Berlin, cutting off the link between West Berlin and East Berlin and turning West Berlin into an out-and-out enclave.
In short, the Soviet Russian camp was aggressive and aggressive. It makes the most apolitically concerned Americans feel threatened and deeply disappointed with the government.
Because of this, in Washington, the past few days in Washington, the politicians who have been overwhelmed have met almost perfunctorily. Even the members of the "Association of Friends of Vietnam" were not so concerned about the situation in South Vietnam, and their attention was almost entirely focused on Soviet Russia.
The elder brother kept taking money from angel investment companies and kept her in touch with the Giustina family, looking for ways to buy shares or buy the French military-industrial enterprises on the list. Qingqing could guess a little about what his brother was doing, and suddenly asked in a low voice: "Brother, if Mr. Yan turns against you, will President Kennedy support Mr. Yan or support you?" ”
The younger sister is not only in charge of the Li family's assets in Europe and the United States, but also holds the huge investment of the Xidi Chinese Foundation and the major chambers of commerce in South Vietnam, as well as a secret fund of the industrial investment company, which can be called the head of the overseas assets of the "industrial investment system".
Li Weimin had nothing to hide from her, and said with a smile: "Although President Kennedy was very busy, he still took time to meet me, and he said that when he met Diem a few years ago, he thought that Diem had studied at a Catholic seminary in New Jersey, and felt that it was a strong proof that he accepted Western values."
As he learns more about things, he realizes that this is not the case. Neither Ngo Dinh Diem nor those around him, nor the political structures he had established, lacked direct contact with the people of South Vietnam, and never even tried to strengthen it. frankly admitted that his judgment of Wu Tingyan had completely gone into a misunderstanding. ”
Speaking of this, Li Weimin suddenly remembered that his sister had an equally close relationship with the "first family" in the United States.
When she was in college, she often went to Kennedy's house with his wife Wu Lijun, and she had an extraordinary relationship with Mrs. Kennedy.
"Don't talk to me, tell me you know the situation."
Careful thinking was seen through, Qingqing said with a smile: "At a White House banquet, Mr. Secretary of State mentioned Mr. Yan to the president, saying that Mr. Yan is silent and not good at communication, coupled with the difference in cultural background, Mr. Yan is completely a mystery in his eyes. Saying that from the outside, Mr. Yan seems authoritarian, suspicious, and overpowering the people, saying that he really can't understand Mr. Yan's inner world. ”
Li Weimin smiled and asked, "That's all?" ”
"Of course, they said a lot that day, and even mentioned Mrs. Mi. said that although she married the president's younger brother who was good at power tricks, she actually played the role of Mr. Yan's wife. It is believed that Mrs. Yao's comfort to Mr. Yan can relieve Mr. Yan's nervousness, and often argue with him about some issues.
It is believed that Mr. Yan's thoughts and ideas contain many opinions of Mrs. Yao. In their description, Lady Yao is intelligent, strong, and beautiful, but she is also fierce, cruel, and scheming, and she is simply a complete witch. ”
Li Weimin laughed and said, "They should have never seen Chen Lichun." ”
Qingqing couldn't help but smile: "They are all the same, and they don't know Vietnam at all. Jacqueline (Mrs. Kennedy) was very curious about this, and asked me more than once for confirmation, so that I didn't know how to explain it, so I could only push it on my sister-in-law. ”
My sister is a "strong woman" on Wall Street and a socialite who often goes in and out of the White House.
But in terms of popularity and influence in the United States, it is far inferior to Wu Lijun's "Lotus of Saigon", but Wu Lijun is devoted to her husband and children, and she has rarely shown up in the past two years.
Li Weimin pondered for a moment, and said casually: "The president's wife wants to hold a concert on the south lawn of the White House, and wants to invite me and your sister-in-law to attend." I'm going to South Africa tomorrow, and I'm going to Israel after I'm busy with South Africa, so I won't have time to do it, so I can only ask your sister-in-law to come over. When the time comes, you will go with her, and you will come every day. ”
"It's great to come every day, what time is it, I'll reschedule the next day." (To be continued.) )