Chapter 120: North America
"What? The agricultural unions are in trouble? What are you doing? Are you not even getting paid as much as the cattle? If the price of beef is going up, you all have to stop doing it, and go home and raise cattle." β
"Mr. President, we can't influence the decision of the American Agricultural Association, they say that the cost of employees and land is going up, so the price of beef must be raised, or they will go on strike to fight for their own interests. β
"Is the $120 billion a year in agricultural subsidies going to the monkeys? These bastards are making trouble in the midterm elections. Bastard... β
"Yes, we have told them what you said, after all, the share of the subsidy is not distributed to each farm, and this disturbance is clearly planned, according to intelligence, this strike is inextricably linked to several agricultural consortiums in North America. I dare to use personality to assure that they must have been instigated behind the scenes. β
"Well, Bond, I've thought about what you said, but it's not that simple, you can see that Wall Street is more lively now. β
A surprised voice came from the phone, "What's wrong with Wall Street? Our data inspector showed that all the stocks were still in an upward channel yesterday, and there was no big problem." β
"Haha Bond, this time we were yin, this is definitely a group, no, far more than one group can do, this is definitely planned and premeditated, several or even a dozen groups jointly launched an economic attack on the United States as a whole, yes is an economic attack. β
"Your Excellency, what's wrong with you? Your tone seems to be agitated, are you sure you're okay now?"
"Thank you my friend Bond, I'm fine, now Wall Street has collapsed, the overall market fell by seven percent within an hour of opening, and now the whole is still facing a huge sell-off, I asked the Jewish group, those damn old guys said it has nothing to do with them, those sell-offs are very smart, basically some small institutions, or retail investors. β
President Hill had just said this, only to see a few clerks rush in and say loudly, "Oh no, Mr. President, ahem, sir, mud company, ahem, ahem, ahem." β
"Damn, what's wrong with the mud company? You say, for God's sake, you drink some water first. β
I saw the clerk take a sip of the mineral water handed by President Hill and said, "Mud Company, announced a downward revision of this year's development profit target, because it was the strike of the American Agricultural Association, which caused the beef to rise, and several movies announced the postponement of their releases due to the general depression in the market." The American service oil company also announced that it will raise the ex-factory price of gasoline in the United States by 5% from now on. The Great Lakes Workers Association of the United States also announced a one-week strike to protest the rising price of beef. And those car companies are being asked to raise their wages, and now all the factories that the Great Lakes have visited have been shut down. β
"What? Damn, have these companies forgotten who saved them during the last financial crisis? Now this is a betrayal, it's a bucket of my **, God, it must be an umbrella company. Everything must have been caused by this incident. β
At this time, Bond's inhalation voice also came from the phone, "Your Excellency, I want to say something even worse news, the North American Fishing Company will declare a strike from tomorrow to protest the low purchase price of fishing, what the hell are they all crazy? Don't they have to feed their wives and children? Well, since you don't have to stuff money into the breasts of your own women and those dancing girls, you crazy people." β
"Bond: From now on, I declare a state of emergency across the country, and inform the consortium bosses not to make trouble in the near future. No, this won't work," President Hill's mind was completely confused at this time, but as a president, the more chaotic events he encountered, the calmer he should be.
Hill sat back in his oak chair, thought about it for a moment, drank a little more coffee, and said into the phone, "Bond, I think we need to talk about it this time, I want to get those old guys from the Jewish consortium here, I want to see them now." We must stabilize the dollar, this is the most important thing. β
I just heard the phone come from the other side, "Okay, Your Excellency, is there anything else?"
"Well, your CIA is investigating the connection between this incident. Hill thought for a while and said, "Don't investigate for the time being, stability is the most important thing now, since these consortia have a certain connection with the umbrella company, I guess it's better to talk to the person in charge of the umbrella company directly." Hill, you can help me get in touch, let's meet tomorrow afternoon, well, that's it, by the way, the investigation of the umbrella company is suspended, and all personnel are withdrawn. β
In just one day, Hill couldn't believe that almost half of the United States was paralyzed like this, and those damn capitalists must be behind this matter, but this requires evidence, and even if evidence is presented, what's wrong with capitalists letting their workers fight for their due rights?
What's even more ridiculous is that several consortia that have obviously made good profits have broken out all kinds of scandals in their own homes, isn't this the behavior of the bucket of their own ass? One morning the president watched the most important industrial area in the United States paralyzed, because of the strike of the agricultural associations, all the food skyrocketed, and everyone rushed into the supermarket as if they didn't want money, snapping up all kinds of ignorance, who the hell can tell me what's wrong with this president? Is it the end of the world?
And all the stocks are like a slide in a straight line, and in less than three days if this continues, another economic crisis will definitely take shape in the United States, that is, another Wall Street and the end of the United States, no, they can't be allowed to do this, if they are crazy to the point of desperation, it can easily lead to the collapse of the overall American economy.
Although these consortia can't interfere with Wall Street, or they rarely do, there is a lot of huge negative news that has completely broken the confidence of all investors.
Crazy sell-off followed by crazy sell-off, has made Hill's nerves close to collapse, Hill does not know how many people will jump off the building in this stock market crash, what he knows is that the overall Treasury bond interest rate in the United States is rising rapidly, the Federal Reserve has raised the US Treasury bond interest rate three times in the morning, and the increase is getting bigger and bigger, and if this continues, more people will lose confidence in the United States, and now some people have begun to sell in large quantities, I am afraid that no one will dare to buy US Treasury bonds at high interest rates, it will be another nightmare for the United States, which is already in debt development, is a rope to kill itselfγ