America's Road to Wealth

2001.

Explosions from Manhattan, New York.

A new chapter has opened on this planet.

Around four o'clock in the afternoon on September 11th European time.

In the master bedroom of a spa villa outside Milan.

Warm and fragrant nephrite fills my arms.

Opening his eyes, Abel saw the clock hanging on the wall.

He converted the time on the clock and knew that it was already about eight to nine o'clock in the morning in the United States.

Then what was supposed to happen has happened.

Abel pushed away the big KK Karolina Korkova who was lying on top of him.

He carefully got off Simmons, fearing to step on the Elizabethan angels lying everywhere.

As he walked out, he put his hands on his waist, mainly because he was a little numb.

It was possible for him with a perverted physique to behave like this.

Then only the angels swarmed forward and relied on group fighting tactics 25vs1 to ruthlessly suppress His Majesty the Satanic Demon King.

Tiptoeing, Abel walked out of the master bedroom.

On the platform covered with soft carpets outside the master bedroom, there were also several angels who had "fallen" due to the "war" lying on them.

They were all resting, but some were about to wake up.

No matter how gently Abel moved, he still accidentally woke up a few.

He looked at the supermodels who were rubbing their eyes hazy, smiled and said softly: "You guys continue to rest, I have something to deal with."

The supermodels who woke up smiled sweetly at him and nodded, then continued to rest.

With great difficulty, Abel finally escaped from the messy "battlefield".

He appeared in the living room outside the villa.

Watching the boss appear here in pajamas.

Edward and David, who had been waiting here, quickly stood up.

David immediately came to Abel and said softly: "BOSS, something big happened in New York!"

Abel's heart moved and he thought, is it finally here?

"What kind of big deal?"

David then told what happened in New York this morning.

Abel sighed, with a compassionate expression on his face, "How could this happen? That's too bad, too bad! Get ready, David, we are going back to New York right now!"

David hesitated for a moment and whispered: "BOSS, I personally think it is a bit risky to go back to New York now. No one can guarantee that this kind of thing will not happen a third time."

If it happened again, I would think about evacuating the United States.

Abel thought this in his heart, but his face was righteous. He said to Edward and David:

"It is because I know the danger that I should go back to New York. Although I am a Texan, New York is also my second hometown. I want to go back to my hometown, do you understand what I mean?"

I saw my boss acting like this at such a dangerous moment.

Edward and David were both surprised, but at the same time a little touched.

"BOSS. I know." David said with some shame.

Edward also spoke: "I'll go and have someone prepare it right away."

Abel nodded expressionlessly, "Go ahead, I want to return to the United States as soon as possible."

David came back quickly to report the results, which were far from ideal.

"The United States has announced that it has closed all airspace to the outside world. Any commercial and private aircraft entering U.S. airspace during this period will be subject to sniper fire."

Abel nodded to show his understanding, turned around, took out his personal phone, turned it on, and made calls one by one.

By the time he finished making and answering the phone, it was already evening in Venice time.

For more than three hours, he made and answered hundreds of calls.

After appeasing and arranging a lot of people and things, it became a little quiet around him.

At this time, Elizabeth's angels had also woken up, and they knew what was happening in New York.

Everyone's reaction was one of shock and panic.

This is normal. In fact, the repercussions caused by that major event that day had a huge impact.

During the three days that the United States closed its airspace.

The New York Stock Exchange and other domestic exchanges announced a four-day closure.

The owner of the White House was originally at an elementary school in Virginia that day, giving a speech to elementary school students.

He immediately rushed back to the white house and launched a televised speech to the nation that night, declaring a state of emergency in the United States.

That night, federal departments at all levels launched investigations into the incident.

Over two days, federal agencies at all levels secretly detained, arrested, and interrogated at least 1,200 people.

The Ministry of Justice also questioned 5,000 suspicious persons.

In the past few days, the American media, which originally loved questioning the authorities, have all gone silent.

At this moment, there is only one voice left in the Federation.

Originally, in terms of authority, it belonged to the super-minor government of George Bush Jr.

Because of this incident, he took power instantly.

On September 14, closed U.S. airspace was opened.

Abel's Boeing 747 is about to take off.

Landing at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport seven hours later.

Abel did nothing when he returned to the United States. He returned directly to No. 1 Thirteenth Road, Royal Point, New York.

During the quiet few days, except for making phone calls to comfort women and subordinate companies, he never left the house.

On September 17, the U.S. stock market reopened.

Although before the market opened, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank suddenly cut interest rates by 50 percentage points each to stabilize people's confidence and support the stock market.

However, the Dow Jones still fell 7.1% that day, and then fell slightly for two consecutive days.

Ends September 20th.

The Dow Jones Index, Nasdaq Index and S\u0026P Index fell 14.3%, 16.1% and 11.6% respectively, and the US stock market stocks shrank by 1.4 trillion US dollars.

Although White House has injected a large amount of capital into the stock market.

Panic selling is still unavoidable, and major stock indexes continue to fall to their lowest point in three years.

The world's largest stock market fell.

It is also difficult for the stock markets of other countries to improve. The sluggish stock market will inevitably affect the confidence of investors and consumers in various countries.

Tokyo fell 4.8%, London fell 6.2%, Paris fell 11.4% and Frankfurt fell 12.3%.

Share prices of the most affected airlines fell even more sharply.

Among them, the share prices of British Airways, Lufthansa and Air France fell by more than 30%.

The U.S. dollar index plummeted even more, from the previous 119.65 to only 100.93 on September 20.

This shows that the sovereign currencies of the world's major economic powers have surged relative to the US dollar.

A typical example is Abel's large holdings of Norwegian krone.

Prior to this incident, the NOK-USD exchange rate had been hovering around 7.6800.

That’s 7.68 Norwegian kroner to one US dollar.

After this incident, the deadline is September 20.

The exchange rate between the Norwegian krone and the US dollar has become 6.9500.

That is less than 7 Norwegian kroner, which can be exchanged for one US dollar.

The US dollar value of Abel's NOK 600 billion holdings also increased from US$78.125 billion.

It became $86.33 billion.

Manhattan Island in New York is home to multinational financial companies.

The businesses of these companies have been affected to a greater or lesser extent.

Companies with offices in buildings are even more unlucky.

Their business was nearly paralyzed and a large amount of data was lost.

Among the famous companies are Bank of America, Bank of Asahi, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley Financial Corporation, the Commodity Futures Exchange and so on.

Among them, Morgan Stanley suffered the worst losses because it rented a total of 298,000 square meters of office space in the building, and many of the company's employees did not even have an office space.

Of course, very coincidentally, the CEOs and chairmen of these large companies.

Nothing happened to any of them.

These people either traveled far away from the United States on business that day, or were doing business in other parts of the United States, or working in other areas of Manhattan.

According to internal statistics from Wall Street, among the people who disappeared and died, the highest-ranking person was a mid-level executive at the U.S. Commodity Futures Exchange.

It's just so magical.

The global insurance industry’s total reimbursement this time will be between 15 billion and 30 billion US dollars.

Within this week, AIG, the largest property insurance company in the United States, paid US$500 million in compensation, MetLife, the second largest life insurance company, paid US$300 million in compensation, and CNA Financial Insurance Group paid US$230 million in compensation.

It can be said that in addition to airlines, the global insurance industry was hardest hit by this incident.

Munich Re, Swiss Re, Lloyd's of London, General Re and other companies were all severely damaged by this incident.

September 21st.

New York has finally restored order.

Queens, Smith Building.

Three shareholders of Smith Capital, including Buffett, Sullivanston and Bloomberg, all appeared in Abel's office on the fourth floor.

one hour later.

From the huge floor-to-ceiling windows next to the sofa seating area in the office, Abel put his hands in his pockets and looked at Manhattan across the East River in New York.

There are still skyscrapers there, but the figures of the proud twins are missing among the buildings.

"What a terrible disaster." Abel sighed and turned to look at the three people. "God bless America."

The three giant crocodiles couldn't help but whisper softly, "God bless America."

The words "God bless America" ​​were shouted out by George Bush in the White House that day.

It has become the most shouted sentence among Americans in the past ten days.

It seems that if you don’t shout these words a few times, you are not an American at this moment.

Just like American thieves.

Under the general trend, even the top wealthy people have to do this.

After Abel pretended to shout again.

The three giants also had to read it again.

Just like chanting sutras, this is the biggest ZZZQ in the United States currently.

Those who do not follow this ZZZQ trend are the biggest enemies of the United States at the moment.

After the "chanting" is completed.

Abel raised his hand and looked at the time. It was almost noon.

He looked up at the three giants and said, "Everyone, it's time for O'Neal's date. It's time for us to go."

Bloomberg immediately smiled and said: "Oh, that's your date, it has nothing to do with me. Mr. O'Neill did not invite me."

The four of them have been talking here for more than an hour.

Now it's time to end the show.

Bloomberg left alone.

Buffett and Sullivan followed Abel's motorcade from the Smith Building in their cars.

After driving for half an hour, the motorcade arrived at a building in Brooklyn.

This building is far away today, and there are many people guarding and arranging it.

It took more than half an hour for the convoy to pass the inspection by these security personnel.

With great difficulty, Abel and the other three got off the car before arriving at the building.

Under the escort of some special staff, we walked into the building.

after a little while.

The three of them appeared together in a spacious conference hall in the building.

There are already many people in the conference hall.

Abel glanced around and saw many familiar people.

Such as David Komansky, Philip Purcell, Richard Fuld, Paulson, etc.

At a glance, the dozens or hundreds of people in the conference hall included almost 70% of Wall Street giants and 80% of American financial giants.

At this time, if there is a cruise bomb, it will attack from the building above and raze the building to the ground.

Then you can basically wipe out the American financial community.

"The formation is huge."

Sullivanston, CEO and chairman of PNC Financial Services Group, spoke softly to Abel and Buffett.

Abel found Soros in the crowd.

The latter was also looking at him.

The two looked at each other and smiled, looking like they had a good relationship.

It’s as if the fierce confrontation between the two on USD/NOK didn’t happen half a month ago.

Buffett waited for Abel to finish greeting Soros, and the stock god whispered to Abel:

"Abel, tell me. Does Paul's summons today mean the white house?"

Sullivanston also looked at Abel, and the leader of PNC Financial Services Group was also curious about this matter.

Who on Wall Street doesn't know that Abe Smith is Shrub's son-in-law.

Abel shrugged, "Actually, I don't know. That person is too busy now. My father-in-law is not in power. But I think it still means the white house. Paul Henry O'Neill is not worthy of our attention. "

When Buffett and Sullivan saw what he said, they both nodded slightly.

Many people are aware of the conflict between Paul Henry O'Neill, the newly appointed finance minister of the White House, and the White House and even the ruling party.

The reason why he was given the important position of Treasury Secretary was mainly because Paul Henry O'Neill himself was indeed capable.

But no matter how capable he is, in that position, without support from the White House and the ruling party, it will be of no use at all.

Paul Henry O'Neill just couldn't figure it out.

As a member of the upright party, he stares at the white house all day long, especially at the commander-in-chief.

Eventually, in a parallel time and space, he will be ousted next year.

Precisely because of Paul Henry O'Neill's disagreement with the White House, the upper echelons of the United States knew that Paul Henry O'Neill had little power.

The Treasury Secretary is not a big deal on Wall Street, let alone a Treasury Secretary with little power.

Such a finance minister would not be supported by the White House.

It is impossible for so many giant crocodiles to appear here today.

It can be said that two-thirds of the princes in the American financial world have gathered here.

The three of them chatted quietly, and everyone else in the conference room was also chatting.

Paul Henry O'Neill hurriedly led many people to appear half an hour later.

Out of etiquette, everyone basically stopped the discussion and looked at the finance minister who just took office this year.

Paul Henry O'Neill was a typical white elite. As early as when Herbert became the owner of the White House, he wanted to invite him to become the Minister of Defense.

Paul Henry O'Neill declined at the time but recommended Dick Cheney.

Dick Cheney is the deputy to the current owner of the White House.

After Herbert's son moved into the white house this time.

Paul Henry O'Neill finally did not refuse the invitation and became the new Treasurer.

As soon as this finance minister with great personal ability appeared on the scene, he delivered a series of contagious speech-like lines.

But in summary, there is actually only one central idea.

That is, the country needs you and the United States needs you. Why don’t you quickly come up with money to support the stock market?

The giant crocodiles responded without saying a word, but things were obviously not going to be so easy.

When no one spoke, Paul Henry O'Neill began the roll call.

I guess this guy really has trouble dealing with the White House. Hundreds of Wall Street tycoons and American financial giants are sitting here.

Paul Henry O'Neill ordered no one.

The new Dick Cheney was the first to point to the person present who had the closest relationship with the owner of the White House.

"Mr. Abel Smith."

Paul Henry O'Neill said loudly:

"From the end of 1999 to now, the United States has allowed you to accumulate amazing wealth. Now that the country needs you, can't you show something?"

Everyone gloated, and everyone looked at Abel with gloating eyes.

You must know that among the people in this room, the youngest person who can sit is fifty or sixty years old.

The old ones are all seventy or eighty years old.

The young staff standing against the wall are all in their thirties.

The only young man sitting was Abel himself.

No matter what they were thinking at the moment, everyone was staring at Abel.

Paul Henry O'Neill looked serious and looked at Abel.

However, to everyone's surprise, Abel stood up directly and said in a clear and authentic voice:

"Gold is indeed precious, but a vigorous and brave patriot is even more precious. I am willing to be that vigorous and brave patriot."

"Smith Capital has gradually converted 600 billion Norwegian kroner in foreign exchange funds into U.S. dollars."

"These funds will be invested in the U.S. stock market. I hope that Smith Capital's approach can provide a boost to the collapsing U.S. stock market!"

"Mr. O'Neill, what do you think of me doing this?"

Abel's clear voice echoed in the conference hall, and everyone, including Paul Henry O'Neill, was stunned.

Only in the morning, Buffett and Sullivanston, who had already discussed with Abel, looked calm.

They knew Abel's plan and approved of it.

In fact, it’s useless to disagree. Abel has absolute controlling interest in Smith Capital.

The most that these two people and Bloomberg can do is to demand the right to withdraw their shares.

In other respects, even dividends also depend on Abel’s wishes.

"Uh" Paul Henry O'Neill probably didn't expect Abel Smith to answer like this.

Because compared to Abel's performance, he clearly stated that he would convert foreign exchange into U.S. dollars and then put the funds into the U.S. stock market.

By doing this, he first supported the U.S. dollar and then U.S. stocks.

The support is terrible.

Compared to him.

Among the hundreds of giants present, nearly one-third of the people and companies secretly shorted the U.S. stock market during this period.

The other two-thirds watched indifferently and chose to wait and see.

There is no one who clearly wants to rescue the market.

So far, apart from the official, no one has stepped in to rescue the market.

Abel's direct statement naturally surprised Paul Henry O'Neill.

The new finance minister wanted to say something, but at this time he saw Buffett standing next to Abel.

"Although Berkshire Hathaway has suffered heavy losses this time." Buffett said:

"But I'm also a patriot. Berkshire Hathaway will follow in the footsteps of Smith Capital and join this effort to save the U.S. stock market."

The CEO of PNC Financial Services Group stood up.

"The same goes for PNC."

The three people's joint statement caused the entire audience to fall into silence.

This chapter took three hours to write, and it deepened the harmony. I feel sorry for myself for not laying out the foreshadowing and waiting for it for so long. That's it in the end. I'm very dissatisfied myself, but that's all I can do