Washington, USA.

It's Tuesday, August 27th.

In the private area of the president's family in the East Wing of the White House, Bill Clinton, who had quietly slept in a separate room with Hillary, got up early this morning and sat in the dining room.

It's not just the young man's $1.5 trillion personal wealth at the top of the list that is eye-popping, but the entire list is embarrassing.

Especially the top 10 of the list.

First place: Simon Westeros, 1.5 trillion.

Second place: Bill Gates, $97.1 billion.

Third place: Claire Gain, $29.5 billion.

Fourth place: Neil Brantley, $29.5 billion.

No. 5: Paul Allen, $18.6 billion.

Sixth place: Tim Berners Lee, $17.8 billion.

No. 7: Jeff Bezos, $17.8 billion.

No. 8: Carol Butz, $17.8 billion.

No. 9: Larry Ellison, $15.5 billion.

Fourth place: Warren Buffett, $13.9 billion.

The top ten richest people in the United States, the first place is really a weird demon star, not to mention, the others, all of them have entered the period of 10 billion dollars.

And that's not even the most critical thing.

The most important point is that among the ten super-rich people, except for one Warren Buffett, the other nine, most of the net worth is from the field of new technology. Moreover, this tendency is even more prominent on the entire 400-person list.

It was as if all of a sudden, a whole new era was coming.

It was only half past seven o'clock after breakfast, and Janet Reynold, the attorney general of the Clinton cabinet, hurried to the White House for a final discussion with Mr. President about the 9 o'clock press conference this morning.

Yesterday, the latest issue of the Forbes list was released, and in the face of heated discussions in the media, many things can no longer be delayed.

Because it was also yesterday, August 26, the four-day Democratic National Convention was officially held in Atlanta, Georgia, where the session was held, and it can be regarded as riding on the east wind that some of the Olympics have just ended, as the incumbent president, Clinton does not need to be present in the whole process, but two days later, on August 29, he will go in person to deliver a speech and formally accept the party's nomination.

This was followed by the Republican National Convention, which runs from August 30 to September 3.

These eight days can be regarded as the complete end of the pre-election phase of the presidential election, and after the Republican nomination is announced on September 3, the official election sprint will begin.

Although many things will settle down on these days, and there will be little change, the struggle will never stop.

Now that it has been decided to take the initiative to attack the Westeros system in order to avoid falling into passivity, after these days of preparation, taking advantage of the release of the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in the United States, today is also a very suitable time for a formal 'declaration of war', so as to have the best public opinion effect and leave the Republican Party with nothing to say.

After discussing for more than half an hour, Janet Renaud hurried away.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

The U.S. Department of Justice held a press conference chaired by Attorney General Janet Reynaud to officially announce that the Department of Justice would reopen an investigation into a series of alleged monopolistic practices of Igrett because it had not fulfilled the agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice at the end of 1994.

The focus of this investigation is on illegal behaviors such as using market advantages to force users to use their own Internet software and cloud computing services, unfair competition brought about by the monopoly of Internet Explorer interfaces, and maliciously suppressing competitors by using market advantages.

Although there is a three-hour time difference between the east and west coasts, after the U.S. Department of Justice held a press conference, the head of the East Coast branch of Igrete responded immediately, expressing regret over the Justice Department's investigation of Igret, emphasizing that Igrete is a company that strictly abides by market rules, and completely denies all the accusations against Igrete at the Department of Justice's press conference.

The Igrete portal also published a more detailed response and self-defense on its own website.

There was only a 10-day gap between the listing of Verizon Telecom and the launch of the investigation by the Department of Justice, and 10 days was actually enough for people who should know about the White House's plans, so the general public felt quite abrupt about this press conference, but for Wall Street or Silicon Valley, this matter is not a secret at all.

In response to this news event, everyone is more concerned about the impact that this investigation may have on the Nasdaq story.

Including the White House.

As the initiator, no one cares more than Clinton, once this investigation accidentally bursts the bubble of technology stocks and causes a stock market crash, then he will definitely not have a good time in the next few months, and it is not impossible to lose his re-election opportunity when he is far ahead in the polls at this time.

Fortunately, in the advance risk assessment, the White House staff believed that it would not have too obvious an impact on the Nasdaq if it only launched the investigation and did not take substantive action for the time being, and the announcement of the investigation on the second day after Forbes magazine released the list of the 400 richest people in the United States for the new year was also based on this consideration.

The U.S. 400 list will certainly have a positive impact on the technology stock market, so it can largely offset the negative effects of this survey.

The press conference lasted 20 minutes, starting at 9 o'clock, and immediately after 9:30 a.m., the US stock market opened.

It's just a downward curve.

In just five minutes, the Nasdaq fell from 5,263 points to 5,134 points, a decline of 1.9%, or nearly 2%.

You must know that the total market value of the NASDAQ market at this time has reached 6 trillion US dollars, a decline of 1.9%, which does not seem like much, but it also means that in just 5 minutes, more than 100 billion US dollars of wealth has disappeared.

On the other hand, as the most direct target, the stock price of Egrett Company, after the opening, will inevitably be affected more seriously than the broader market, however, in five minutes, compared with the 1.9% decline in the broader market, the decline in Igret's stock price is only 2.6%, even if this means that nearly 10 billion US dollars of paper wealth disappears quickly, but it is completely controllable.

While everyone was on the lookout, after a brief dip, the Nasdaq rebounded again, as did the share price of Ygritt, and the imaginary sell-off did not materialize.

Half an hour later, 30 minutes after the opening of the market, the Nasdaq index returned to more than 5,200 points, and the stock price of Ygrit fell back to within the 2% range, and countless people breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, the first response was a counterattack from the Republican Party.

Bob Dole, the Republican presidential candidate who has opened his personal website, personally went into battle and published a blog post around 10 a.m., criticizing Clinton's investigation into Egrett at this time as a complete bluff and a cover for his serious strategic blunders in the new technology industry over the past few years.

Bob Dole also said that once he is elected, he will really take strict measures to guide the development of the new technology industry and avoid the wealth dividend of the information age from being raised by a small number of people.

I have to say that the Republican candidate chose to build his own website, using IBM's network service platform, completely drawing a line with the Westeros system, and obviously the result was carefully considered, and this speech, taking advantage of the release of the Forbes American 400 rich list yesterday, is also to the point.

It is a common problem for almost everyone to suffer from inequality.

Many people don't think much about whether they have the ability to fight the tide in the surging wave of new technology, but they are inevitably upset when they see other trendsetters make huge fortunes from it.

In any case, since you can't get it, you definitely can't let others get it.

It's just that some people may notice, or maybe not so many people notice, Bob Doerr's speech did not name a certain name, but only emphasized that after he was elected, more people would get the dividends of the new technology industry.

Although these words can be very effective in inciting ordinary people, for those who understand, it is basically equivalent to saying nothing.

After all, Bob Dole is only a candidate, even if the other party is still the majority leader of the Senate, there is not much that can actually be done, just like the Casselbaum-Kennedy bill that was snatched by Clinton some time ago, because of the early action of the White House, the Republican congressmen who have been running around for a long time to promote this bill are so angry that they want to vomit blood.

The same is true of this first attack against the Westeros system.

In fact, after Clinton decided to make the first move, the Republican side also quickly got the news from the Department of Justice, but they could only wait and see.

Although both houses of Congress also have the power to initiate various judicial investigations, and the Republican Party also controlled the entire Congress through the midterm elections two years ago, compared with Clinton's absolute authority in the White House, whatever Congress wants to do, even if it initiates a majority of seats, whether it is various bills or initiating investigations, it will take a long time.

At the very least, 10 days in advance to launch an investigation into the Westeros system is certainly not enough.

That's why so many people are vying for a place in the White House.

Congress has a lot of power, but it's a Congress of hundreds.

The White House is just a one-person White House, because it has absolute power, whether it is a staff team or a cabinet member, they need to obey Mr. President, who is the head of state and the commander-in-chief of the three armed services, otherwise, they will be fired.

On the other hand, whether it is the sudden investigation launched by the Department of Justice or the game of the Westeros system as a gimmick in the final moments of the election, it is only a continuation of the wealth list released yesterday that shocked the world.

$1.5 trillion!

What kind of wealth is this, too many people are completely incomprehensible, but, in any case, everyone understands that such a wealth is too large, too large to ...... It has already caused a lot of people to feel uneasy.

Therefore, even if the investigation launched by the Department of Justice today is clearly exposed by Bob Doerr and many other Republicans and right-wing media, as long as someone challenges the Westeros system and the man, then everyone will feel much better.

You know, not only the young man who is on the top, the entire list, 400 people, is still not Bill Gates and other relatively shallow rich, but can be called 'Westerosian' rich people, compared with last year's 37 people, with the establishment of Aria Company B girl and many other newcomers on the list, this year quickly reached 53 people, that is to say, a group of people at the top of the country's wealth pyramid, one-eighth of them are from the Westeros system.

How can this make people feel balanced!

Therefore, in the disturbing public opinion, many people have once again put forward the idea of a wealth tax, and an additional tax should be levied on the people at the top of the pyramid to reduce the wealth inequality in this society.

It's just that because the memory of someone's series of risky and tough actions two years ago is still fresh, and the strength of the Westeros system itself has quietly risen to a new level, whether it is the media or the political circles, the influence is not what it used to be, so this time, when someone mentions it again, the response is far less than two years ago, and the response is even less.

Some people even argue that if some people are forcibly deprived because they have too much wealth, it is tantamount to shaking the foundation of capitalist society.

After all, the United States is not the former Soviet Union.

In addition, the Westeros system will certainly not be indifferent, and the guidance of public opinion has been opened even before the release of the Forbes list, and one of the important winds is to start attacking the serious bubble of technology stocks, and instilling in the public through various real and false data that whether it is Simon Westeros or other tech tycoons, the personal net worth is not worthy of the name and most of them are just bubbles.

The spirit of Ah Q is actually universal all over the world.

Since the billions and billions of billions of dollars of Simon Westeros or other tech tycoons are just bubbles, there is naturally not much to envy.

At the same time, the Westeros system has begun to re-promote the changes that new technology has brought to public life, encouraging the public to participate in it, and at the same time trumpeting the cases of relying on Internet platforms to become millionaires and multi-millionaires in recent years by publishing videos, making games, etc., in order to tell the public that the Internet is open to everyone, and everyone has the opportunity to rely on the Internet to realize their American dream.

The uproar sparked by the latest Forbes list has spread around the world, including, of course, China.

And, this time, this list, or someone on this list to be precise, sparked the minds of many in the upper echelons of China.

This man is ranked 387th on this year's Forbes list of the 400 richest people in the United States, with a personal fortune of $500 million, and the industry involved in the note is also a hot 'technology'.

On the original list, the rich man's name is SuLin.

Linsu.

This linsu is naturally bilinin.

At the beginning, many people did not react, and did not think in a certain direction at all, after all, the Forbes list is so high-end, and it is an American list, what does it have to do with the Chinese, until a girl who deliberately made it bad from the beginning and got the cooperation of her own boss took the initiative to spread the news, and everyone suddenly realized.

A certain Lin Su turned out to be a Chinese girl who had just immigrated to the United States for only two years.

$500 million.

It seems that there are not many on the Forbes list, which is equivalent to RMB, but it is more than 4 billion yuan.

4 billion!

At this stage, in China and the mainland, how many people can have a wealth of more than 4 billion?