America's Road to Wealth

To little Laura's surprise, it was Abel who found the designer for "Flower of Lauren".

It's a little-known female designer named Zaha Hadid.

This female designer named Zaha Hadid has a private studio and is about fifty years old this year.

In an estate with 81 acres of land that has not yet been demolished.

Little Laura watched Abel discuss with the other party.

"Oh my God, Mr. Smith, according to your plan, the high-energy cement and steel bars required will be an astronomical figure."

"Maybe building a skyscraper will not necessarily use so much steel and cement."

The speaker is architect Zaha Hadid.

Zaha Hadid in 2001.

Her fame is not that big yet. She has not yet been dubbed the "Devil of Architectural Design".

At this time, Zaha Hadid was just a well-known but controversial designer in the architectural design world.

As of 2001, she had only handled four designs.

One is a fire station in the town of Weil on the Rhine River in Germany.

There is also the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, USA.

A parking lot in Strasbourg, France.

and a ski resort in Innsbruck, Austria.

These places and buildings are not well-known just by looking at their names.

They are only known in the industry for their outrageous designs and exaggerated construction difficulty.

But as long as ordinary people have seen these buildings, after seeing what they look like.

A literate person might use some poetry or even come up with a prose to praise them.

Illiterate, or someone with a straightforward personality like Anne Hathaway.

Saw these buildings designed by Zaha Hadid.

Anyone who speaks Chinese would probably just say "fuck".

If you speak English, it’s probably “fxxk”.

This master of deconstruction of modern architecture, her designs are all outrageous and beautiful in terms of lines.

In terms of construction difficulty and construction cost, there will be no exceptions that will make the relevant civil engineering dogs scream Fake.

Little Laura didn't understand this.

She is a smart girl, she knows Zaha Hadid even if she does not know it.

But Abel can find Zaha Hadid, so there must be his reasons.

Little Laura didn't chatter like the other women, or ask curious questions from the side.

She just smiled and listened to the conversation between Abel and Zaha Hadid.

Even if little Laura has dissatisfaction or doubts in her heart, she will only do it at the right time.

Or if there are only two people, then bring it up to Abel appropriately.

Little Laura heard Abel say to Zaha Hadid:

"I know all what you said. Ms. Hadid, what I originally wanted was a unique house that could not be found in the world. I also knew that the cost of making it appear would be extremely exaggerated. I have already been mentally prepared for this. Just tell me if you can design it."

"sure."

Zaha Hadid barely even thought about it.

"There are solutions to your request in civil engineering and construction."

Zaha Hadid drew a small hill in the middle of the 81-acre land on simple scratch paper.

Zaha made a circle around the hill, and then said: "The area at the top of this small hill is about two hundred and fifty square meters."

"The circle I made is about four thousand square meters."

"According to your idea, Mr. Smith. Then we can irrigate the entire circle with reinforced concrete and build it up to the level of the hill."

"That way, you get a man-made platform of over 4,000 square meters."

Abel looked at Zaha Hadid's sketch and found that the circle basically surrounded the entire hill from the base.

In other words, if you really want to pile them up, you have to pile them from the foot of the hill to the top of the hill.

Use steel, cement, and countless building materials.

The cost involved does not require much architectural knowledge, and ordinary people would find it very exaggerated if they think about it.

But Abel had other considerations. He smiled and said, "Give me a design drawing and a project cost calculation."

Zaha Hadid nodded: "No problem. But even if you don't adopt it, my studio will still charge money."

"Of course." Abel smiled and said, "It won't be a penny less."

Zaha Hadid then smiled and said, "Then my studio and I will be happy to serve you."

Zaha Hadid was sent away.

After she left, little Laura said softly:

"This Ms. Zaha Hadid, I haven't even heard of her name."

Abel knew what little Laura meant, and he was already prepared.

"Edward," Abel called.

Edward came over immediately, holding a portfolio in his hand.

Abel took the portfolio handed over by Edward and gave it to little Laura.

"Here are four pieces designed by Zaha Hadid, some photos of them."

Little Laura took it curiously, not knowing what Abel meant.

But when she and Abel took the boat, halfway back to Manhattan.

Little Laura understood what Abel meant.

Because these works designed by Zaha Hadid, they look so beautiful, so artistic, and so designed.

Everything that fell into little Laura's eyes made her marvel.

When the two came ashore, little Laura mentally agreed with Zaha Hadid as the designer of her and Abel's future love nest.

I stayed with little Laura all day.

The next day is Monday.

daytime.

Little Laura went to class.

Anne Hathaway filmed a night scene the day before yesterday. While Abel and little Lauren went out to play yesterday, Anne spent the day catching up on her sleep at home.

Little Laura is going to school today.

Anne is also going to Queens to film a movie.

Abel had time to spare, thinking that he had not cut leeks for almost a month.

The leeks on the international market have been recuperating for a month.

It's also fat enough to be harvested.

At noon, he arrived at the Smith Building where Smith Capital is located.

Upon arriving at the company, he went directly to CEO David Mellon.

"Gather a hundred of the most energetic traders." Abel said:

"Just tell them that the king of the Smith Kingdom is going to lead his knights to the battlefield again."

"Oh~YES!" David raised his hands and jumped very high, looking very excited.

David went out to gather people, and Abel waited in the office for about ten minutes.

David came in excitedly and informed him that everything was ready.

This was so fast that the employees of Smith Capital probably gathered together as soon as they heard the summons order.

Abel came outside immediately.

"Knights! Our king is about to lead you to fight in the territory of money and lead you to dominate the world of capital!"

David Mellon stood on the high platform and began his very ordinary speech again.

"Now!"

"Hail to your King - Hail!"

David Mellon was greeted with loud cheers.

Amidst cheers.

Abel smiled and raised a finger, and the one hundred selected traders immediately stopped cheering.

Abel took the microphone handed over by David, in a somewhat middle-of-the-road atmosphere.

Abel couldn't help but feel a little confused.

He smiled and said——

"Want a bonus?"

“Want a bigger income?”

"Want more dollars?"

"Go ahead, I'll put them all on the computer in front of you."

"Now, immediately, immediately!"

"Start your work!"

After Abel waved his hand.

These elites, almost all of whom graduated from the Ivy League, quickly returned to their seats and sat down, just like the pirates in One Piece who went to sea to grab the One Piece.

They looked up, like schoolchildren looking at their teacher, at Abel, the Smith King in their hearts.

Abel turned his back to them. He was looking at the financial information on the screen wall, and he was picking the lucky ones.

"Just pick..."

"USD/NOK!"

Abel picked a "lucky guy" at random.

Norway is a Nordic country.

Among the five Nordic countries, the economy and currency are relatively strong.

The overall situation is not bad. On the screen information wall, Abel also saw that the currency of this country has fluctuated greatly in the past few days.

This made him set his sights on this lucky guy.

Talent tells him what to do next.

Abel smiled and said: "Do more, let us help the lovely Americans and Norwegians, so that the US dollar can be exchanged for more Norwegian krone. This will make it easier for Americans to travel to Norway and spend money, and Norwegians can also earn Let’s do the best of both worlds, American dollars.”

Whether it's short or long.

As long as they can make money, the traders of Smith Capital put their ears to the maximum and listened to Abel's instructions.

Abel glanced at the real-time exchange rate on the screen wall again, USD/NOK: 7.6049.

"Buy 100,000 lots first, hold long positions, and pay attention to consumption offsets!" Abel said.

After he gave the order for the transaction.

The "knights" of Smith Capital got to work.

The market for this currency pair is obviously not as big as USD/JPY or USD/GBP.

Norway's economy is not as good as that of Britain or Neon.

With the rapid influx of Abel's funds, the USD/NOK exchange rate rose rapidly.

Just two hours.

The price has already reached 7.6111.

That is, one US dollar can be exchanged for 7.6111 Norwegian kroner.

There is no doubt that this is an appreciation for the US dollar, and it is going too far.

But for the Norwegian krone, it has depreciated.

On the surface, it seems that Smith Capital has made a profit of 61 points at this time.

If you only look at the floating profit point figures, you can indeed say this.

However, the increase in these points was actually caused by Smith Capital investing a large amount of funds, because it was doing long orders in US dollars, which led to the rise.

If Smith Capital chooses to close all positions and throw them away at this time.

With huge amounts of money being dumped, it is impossible to keep this exchange rate unchanged.

The floating profit points will definitely fall accordingly.

After all Smith Capital's long positions are closed and sold, the exchange rate is expected to drop even lower than when he bought it.

The two offset each other.

Not to mention making money, you may even lose money.

Normal investment banks would be very cautious when conducting this kind of operation above this number.

Unless there is a really big market, such as the previous black swan market of USD/JPY.

If there is no big market situation or an international black swan event.

No one would dare to spend such a large sum of money on a currency like USD/NOK that is not that big at once.

If it is the normal operation of those big investment banks.

That's all very cautious. If you want to go short or long on a country's currency, you need to hold a small amount of the position slowly for many times, and then sell out at the right opportunity.

Only those like Abel rely on talent to operate. How dare you act so unscrupulously.

To be gifted is to be willful.

Smith Capital's subsequent funds are still entering the market and building positions.

Abel asked the traders and David to pay attention to the market.

He was about to go back to the office for a cup of coffee.

David, who had been keeping an eye on the market, suddenly shouted: "Boss, someone has entered the market."

An hour ago.

Neon, Tokyo.

Neon Bank, among the central bank buildings.

Akihiko Kuroda was sipping his coffee and walking with one hand in his pocket among hundreds of elite traders at work.

Akihiko Kuroda belongs to a special economic action group of the Neon Central Bank.

The so-called Special Economic Action Group is actually the investment arm of the Neon Central Bank.

Mainly responsible for the central bank's investment actions, including long and short positions, arbitrage, equity, global macro, insurance, absolute return, momentum, multi-strategy, etc.

To put it simply, the so-called Special Economic Action Group is the group responsible for earning profits from the international market for the Neon Central Bank.

At the same time, it also has the responsibility of stabilizing the exchange rate of Neon Country and the domestic economic situation of Neon Country.

There are many groups like Kuroda Akihiko, and his group is just one of the more outstanding and elite among many economic groups.

Central banks in most countries also have such organizations.

They also hold similar positions to Kuroda Akihiko's group, responsible for seeking international benefits for their central banks and countries.

The foreign exchange, futures, insurance and stock transactions of international central banks are all executed by this kind of organization.

Including Rabbit, there are some similar people.

These people can also be called the national team.

Sometimes even those financial groups in the United States will take on such responsibilities.

That is, the Federal Reserve generally needs to come forward to organize or even provide funds.

Then the financial capitalists in the United States will end up being hypocritical.

The central bank of the United States is a private bank.

As one of the leaders of the national team members of Neon Central Bank, Kuroda Akihiko actually has average abilities.

Many senior executives or the elites of Neon Bank know this.

Kuroda Akihiko can serve as the squad leader because he has a good brother.

Who knows that his brother is Kuroda Nishihiko, the current president of Neon Bank.

Everyone else knows that he was able to reach this position because he had a good family background and a good brother.

This is normal in Neon. Family background, connections, and nepotism are far more important than ability in Neon.

But Kuroda Akihiko doesn't think so. He feels that he can serve as the team leader because of his ability.

In addition to his brother, the subordinates and friends around him have always praised him in this way.

In addition, after more than a year of work, everything is going smoothly.

Kuroda Akihiko has always felt that he is a financial genius that is unique among neon lights.

When Abel laid out Smith Capital's entry into USD/NOK.

Kuroda Akihiko was happily drinking coffee when suddenly one of his men shouted:

"Master Kuroda, please come and take a look. One of the funds we are paying attention to has been captured by us."

Kuroda Akihiko was stunned and walked over quickly.

"Nani?! Where is it? Do you know which rice animal consortium's funds are from it?"

"Look. We have tracked it. This amount of money has just entered the US dollar/Norwegian krone. This currency exchange rate has risen by more than 60 points in just two hours! This plate has now reached 50 billion US dollars from the original More than 10 billion US dollars!"

Kuroda Akihiko frowned.

The market went from 5 billion US dollars to more than 10 billion US dollars in one fell swoop.

This means that the other party is likely to invest billions of dollars in a short period of time.

So confident?

Is this a short-term transaction or a long-term transaction?

If it is a short-term transaction, this is too risky.

Putting so much money into a currency pair with a small market size is fine if it's a long-term investment, but it's really a big risk if it's a short-term investment.

"Kuroda-sama? What should we do now? Do we want to take action?"

his men asked loudly.

Although he is a fool, Kuroda Akihiko is also a graduate of Tokyo University's Department of Finance.

It’s hard to say whether a top student is a top student or not.

But Akihiko Kuroda has no shortage of knowledge in the financial field.

Otherwise, he would not be the leader of this group just based on his family background.

Akihiko Kuroda knows that anything can happen in the foreign exchange market.

Sometimes the market is originally very good, but when you are shorting, the currency happens to fall sharply, and you can get out of the market before you see it.

But often an accidental event causes the exchange rate to suddenly rise, many giants enter the market, and then the good situation that could have been profitable is instantly destroyed.

This kind of thing is very common in the foreign exchange market, and Kuroda Akihiko himself has experienced it.

Trading on the Forex market.

No matter how cautious you are, you can never be too cautious.

"Pay more attention. Let me take a look."

Kuroda Akihiko said calmly.

Akihiko Kuroda quickly ordered the traders to check the recent economic situation in Norway and Europe, as well as some economic news in Norway.

The result of the query is that Norway's economy and exchange rate have actually strengthened compared to Europe and the euro recently.

We must know that after the new century, the Nasdaq Internet bubble will be implicated in the collapse.

The U.S. stock market is in dire straits. The U.S. stock market is a barometer of the world economy.

The barometer is not good, and the global economy will certainly be affected. Therefore, the overall global economy has declined slightly recently.

Europe is not immune.

However, Norway did the opposite during this period, and its economy was generally much better than its neighboring countries.

During this period, Norway's economy has gone against the general trend of the world and has actually been on the upward trend.

As the sovereign currency of Norway, the Norwegian krone is naturally on the rise.

A week ago, USD/NOK was at 7.6190.

The current level of around 7.6100 is the result of its continued strength.

Before being suppressed, it was even 7.6049.

After reading it, Kuroda Akihiko felt at ease.

Because he found that there is a high probability that the Norwegian krone will continue to strengthen this time.

Its power mainly comes from Norway, where two new oil fields and three new gas fields were discovered.

The content of these five oil and gas deposits is still very high.

So much so that it has boosted the country’s overall GDP.

This is undoubtedly a big guarantee for the Norwegian krone.

Akihiko Kuroda decided to give it a try.

"Mobilize funds. Let's enter the market. Short USD/NOK. This time we will hit these rice beasts hard. Let these hateful white-skinned pigs know that we are not easy to mess with."

Kuroda Akihiko said calmly.

"Kuroda-sama, how much capital should we enter?"

"$1 billion. Enter using a margin account."

"OK."

The traders operate quickly.

If you operate a US$1 billion margin account and someone provides leverage, it can reach billions or even tens of billions of US dollars.

It's just that the risk is high.

If you use your own funds to enter, the loss that your own funds of 10 billion US dollars can bear is all, and no matter how low it falls, it will not fall much.

But if it is margin trading, sometimes a few points may lead to liquidation. Once the position is liquidated, there will be nothing left.

Kuroda Akihiko's trading request of 1 billion margin and leverage multiple was received quickly after being sent out.

Because of his elder brother, Kuroda Akihiko has a high status within Neon Bank.

The bank quickly approved its application.

With a leverage ratio of ten times, after entering this market, it will be a short order of 10 billion US dollars.

This caused the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Norwegian krone, which had rapidly risen by dozens of points, to fall again, and even the decline exceeded the number of points that had risen.

Looking at his results, Kuroda Akihiko smiled proudly.

Now he wants to see how these rice beasts deal with it.

If the other party opens a position again, he will continue to suppress it.

If the other party does not increase its position, Norway's own domestic economic situation will cause the USD/NOK to fall on its own.

Anyway, it is negative for USD/NOK.

Then Kuroda Akihiko and his team can profit.