Chapter 297: Crisis and Conflict
There's a reason for Tony's words. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The financial crisis is not a physical monster, nor is it a real storm, and before it has even begun, governments can purposefully mitigate the consequences of the economic downturn through rough forecasts of the economic cycle and through monetary and fiscal policies - yes, not elimination, only mitigation.
Because at the end of the day, there is an imbalance between demand and supply and the expectations of the population, and everyone is afraid of losses, everyone wants to escape bankruptcy, so people are scrambling to sell stocks that are lower, so banks are reluctant to lend money, so companies don't want to continue to invest more.
This financial crisis, by its very nature, is even more difficult to deal with. First of all, it is very counter-cyclical, it came suddenly, when demand is still inflating, and when the bubble is still blowing, which makes governments unable to react, and even many countries regard the two-day plunge as a short-term accident.
Second, the black hand behind this financial crisis is a world-class national economy -- Latvia, and Dr. Doom is full of courage and has taken out his entire country to play with the world, and the funds to hedge against the whole world are not hundreds of billions, but trillions, tens of trillions of dollars. And because of the lag of the free market itself, as well as the complexity of human nature, it is impossible for the global market to unite to deal with the financial crisis, but it seems to start a vicious circle that will make the situation worse and worse
Finally, this financial crisis coincided with the outbreak of racial contradictions between humans and Transformers, there were many Transformers who disrupted the production and sales plans of many companies through strikes and marches, which further aggravated the extent of the financial crisis, even if Optimus Prime persuaded those Autobots in time, but the situation was only slightly eased, after all, Optimus Prime was only the leader, his words were not divine decrees, and there were still many Transformers in a state of strike.
Five days have passed since the first big fall, although many superheroes have stood up and appealed, and even advertised, to restore the people's confidence in the economy, but the people are not stupid, even if Tony said it well, even if Dave's Pluto company took the lead in increasing investment, but when people's stocks kept falling, he could only sell them, and when people couldn't pay off their debts, he could only mortgage things that were far less valuable, and when the bank's cash flow broke, They also had to declare bankruptcy.
In just five days, driven by Latvia's inaction, and even continued death, the entire world economy has fallen into a terrible liquidity trap, with a large number of banks, mutual funds and securities companies declaring bankruptcy, investment stagnating, economic development stagnating, companies going bankrupt, and people unemployed.
In such an environment, the racial contradictions that had been slowly easing were once again provoked, this time, not because the Autobots went on strike, not because they marched in the streets, but because their near-free labor squeezed human jobs, causing resentment in the hearts of many unemployed people.
The anger, hatred and discrimination that had accumulated in the hearts of the unemployed, the loss-making, and the bankrupt slowly brewed, and finally turned into a second round of conflict on this day.
On this afternoon, in the American metropolis, a human and a Transformers clashed, perhaps that person had the idea of impulsively killing people at the beginning, and quickly took out a firearm and launched an attack on the Transformers, and the Transformers themselves are not easy to mess with, obviously with some extremist meanings, and did not blindly dodge, but in turn, crushed that person into a pulp.
This conflict, which began with a verbal quarrel and ended with bloodshed, was in a global uproar on the Internet in less than an afternoon, and in the bleak background of the economic crisis, the topic of racial contradictions became hot, and everyone invariably released their anger on the Internet.
"He shouldn't have killed! Even if it was the conflict that was provoked by that person first, that Transformer shouldn't have killed anyone! ”
"Oh, when I see the Holy Mother of the again, I will allow your mad dog to bite people, and no one will be allowed to resist!"
"Upstairs, even if it's a rebellion, with the strength of those Cybertrons, it can just be suppressed, and there is no need to kill!"
"Hey, hey, those Cybertron dogs have been dissatisfied with humans for a long time, and this time they caught the cause and took the opportunity to kill people!"
"Upstairs conspiracy theories, with racial discrimination, I hope you don't just die in front of your computer, after all, your computer is also likely to be an intelligent creature that you discriminate against!"
"Is there a dead mom upstairs? What the hell are you guys standing over there? Or is it not human anymore? The Transformers killed humans, our kindred, so you dogs should go to Jupiter and kneel and lick your father Cybertron! ”
"Hehe, anthropocentrism, upstairs is actually an undercover agent of Hydra! Or Hitler's son? The sound of a dog barking is really like! ”
"Long live the Transformers, Rise of the Robots!"
"Why, a group of stray dogs in the universe, after being given by us, they will bite their owners in turn!"
"What's so noisy about this, you are all bad pens!"
"Hehe, upstairs looks like I haven't graduated from elementary school yet, and I haven't even finished shaping my worldview before I go on Facebook? You might as well go back to pumping! ”
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All sorts of rhetoric erupted in the wake of the global unrest and depression brought about by the financial crisis, and on the same night, humanity began to march in every city, with extremist groups holding signs and shouting for the expulsion of the Cybertrons, and others vowing to punish the murderers.
This violent reaction did not make the matter resolved, but also aroused the indignation of the Transformers, and the Autobots also began to march,-for-tat with the humans, they still remember the manslaughter incident some time ago, remember the persecution and hunting that were dug up, and their anger rose above the anger of the humans, burning into a raging flame.
This sudden change made the hearts of the watchmen who were already anxious, trying to solve the economic crisis, trying to find Dr. Doom, and solve this series of events cold, but they still had to issue a global mission: [B-class threat, maintain order. 】
It's not that Dave hasn't thought about using coercion, or force, to expel those demonstrative, confrontational humans and Transformers, but the current network is too developed, and their actions may be immediately transmitted to the Internet, and then affect the credibility of the Hero Association.
So, Dave can only ask all the heroes registered with the Hero Association to cooperate with the police, maintain order, and not let the conflict break out, because he has a hunch.
The next conflict, perhaps, is war!