America's Road to Wealth

Peggy Morgenthau was clearly dressed up tonight.

Okay, this sentence is bullshit. Which upper-class woman attending such an important cocktail party would be careless?

This has nothing to do with IQ, it's a woman's nature.

What's more, Paige came with her grandfather tonight as always.

If she doesn't dress well, Robert probably won't do it either. That would hurt the face of the Morgenthau family, which a traditional and stubborn family like them could not tolerate.

Tonight, Paige has white teeth and red lips, her golden hair is tied behind her head, and her makeup is slightly mature, leaning towards a lady's makeup.

She was wearing a dark blue floor-length gown with a very long hem.

The dark blue sleeveless large V-neck tight-fitting waist-hugging fishtail skirt perfectly showed off the curves and ravines of her proud white upper circumference, which was so looming that people couldn't take their eyes away.

On Peggy's slender pink neck, there is a band-shaped white gold and diamond necklace, which is dazzling.

This dress perfectly embellishes Peggy's graceful body in an amazing way. It is completely in the shape of a gourd, charming and dignified, contradictory and harmonious.

After looking at it carefully, little Laura was a little discouraged.

She found that she seemed to be a little inferior to the other party in terms of appearance and figure.

As for IQ

Little Laura remembered this woman as a super genius prodigy.

He obtained a doctorate in law when he was still a teenager, and was a very famous and genuine "other people's kid" in the political circles on the East Coast.

Even little Laura in Texas had heard about it.

Better than family background.

In this regard, the current shrub family seems to be slightly better.

Compared to the Bush family, which has produced two generals, Morgenthau comes from a family of prosecutors and a family of judges.

Morgenthau's ancestors had a great judge.

The older generation of this generation, Robert and his three brothers, are all prosecutors in important areas of the United States.

The youngest among them has a high probability of becoming the new justice.

The premise is that one of the current justices happens to have passed away, and then the new commander-in-chief is a member of the Donkey Party.

The younger generation. The younger generation of the Bush family, there are not many people now.

In terms of family background, little Laura felt that she was still a little better than her, but not by much.

Finally, compare abilities.

Little Laura, whose talents are all about shrewdness and courtliness, doesn't want to compete at all.

Comparing is only causing trouble.

Little Laura finally realized that she seemed to be no match for Peggy in all aspects.

Then why did Abel choose me?

In addition to her family background, little Laura thought of a great possibility.

Excellent like Peggy, traditional and stubborn like the Morgenthau family.

She and they would most likely not allow her husband and their son-in-law to be so bad in some way, right?

In this regard, the Bush family, which relied entirely on marriage in the early stage, was more enlightened.

So Abel chose me because of this?

Little Laura thought like this and felt like a failure.

But no matter what, he chose me in the end!

Little Laura found her winning point, which made her smile confidently in front of Paige.

The two started a "cordial and friendly" conversation, with Li Xinyu watching the fun.

But in fact, it was mainly little Laura who was asking, and Paige's response was not very enthusiastic.

After chatting for a few minutes, little Laura found that even if she wanted to surpass her verbally, she didn't seem to have much sense of accomplishment.

Facing Peggy Morgenthau, little Laura felt like beating cotton and sucking out air.

It was limp and powerless, and there was no feeling of victory at all.

"Wow~"

Just when little Laura was hesitating whether she really couldn't compare to Paige.

At the reception, almost everyone burst into discussion.

These sounds attracted the attention of more than thirty ladies in the female guest area.

"what's going on?"

"Why do you look so lively?"

"Look over there!"

A female guest pointed out that something happened during the reception.

There is nothing to care about on the lady's side.

The female guest, who had been paying attention to the male guests, reminded her in a low voice:

"It seems that Mr. David Mellon just announced Smith Capital's financial report for this year?"

Little Laura looked over and saw the male guests taking things out of their pockets.

Someone took out the invitation letter first. It was a crude invitation letter from Smith Capital. Many people took out the invitation letter and looked at it.

Seeing this, little Laura showed a proud smile on her face.

She greeted the female guests, including Peggy Morgenthau, and said with a smile:

"Nothing. It should be Mr. David Mellon who wants everyone to see the invitation. The number on the invitation is the total profit of Smith Capital this year."

Among the thirty or so female guests, a few happened to be holding invitations.

These ladies quickly took the invitations from the small bag.

After a while, a woman who moved the fastest had already opened the invitation.

On the invitation, the lady only found a number [$458] at the end.

The other numbers are only the year, month, day, and time.

That's obviously not going to be Smith Capital's profit number this year.

"[$458]? What does this number mean?" the woman couldn't help but ask.

"That's right. My invitation also has [$458] on it." Another woman also said:

"$458? Or $4.58 million? $45.8 million? $458 million? It can't be $4.58 billion or $45.8 billion, right?"

They couldn't help but look at little Laura.

The latter nodded with a reserved smile and looked at Paige with his beautiful eyes.

Paige still had that calm and gentle expression, and when little Laura looked over, she even took the initiative to smile at little Laura.

Little Laura had no choice but to smile back, and at the same time she said softly:

"That's right. Abel just told me. Smith Capital's gross profit this year is a total of 45.8 billion U.S. dollars, that's right!"

"Wow!"

Among the female guests, the same comments as those among the male guests just broke out.

Can I attend this cocktail party tonight?

It can also be a female guest brought here by a male companion, boyfriend, or husband.

None of them are ordinary women.

Either he comes from a big family or a wealthy family. .

Or he is particularly capable, such as Wendy Deng, who is mixed in the crowd and has a somewhat marginal status.

She convinced her husband to come with Murdoch, which is also a manifestation of her ability.

Everyone, including Wendy Deng, knows what a gross profit of $45.8 billion means to a company.

This means that in terms of profits this year, Smith Capital may be the best among all companies in the world!

"Did we hear correctly? Miss Bush, what you just said was 45.8 billion US dollars?"

Wendy Deng, who was at the edge of the circle, raised her voice and asked.

At this time when everyone was curious, Wendy Deng felt that by taking the initiative, she could get some attention from these women.

Several other female guests also joined in and asked:

"Yeah, $45.8 billion! Lord, this is too hard to believe."

"I'm sorry, I was so shocked. But I really wanted to make sure."

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Little Laura didn't care about other people, and she didn't see many unnecessary expressions on Paige's face.

This made little Laura a little disappointed, but facing the questions from the girls, she also smiled and pointed to the male guests.

"Look there. Gentlemen and gentlemen, their reaction over there is the most real."

Little Laura's words drew everyone's attention and attention to the male guests at the reception.

At this time, Soros, like many others, opened the invitation and looked at the numbers on it.

George had already discovered this problem when he was in the elevator hall outside just now.

At that time, he had some doubts, but he did not expect that the number [$458] would actually be 45.8 billion U.S. dollars.

is Smith Capital’s profit this year.

In other words, Smith Capital has actually plotted their profits this year in their invitation letter this year.

But no one knew that Smith Capital’s profits this year would be so exaggerated.

Just now, no one would have thought that this number was actually a company's annual profit!

Soros took a deep breath and looked at Tims, who was also shocked.

"Tims, tell me." Soros said in a low voice, "This year, the combined profits of Soros Fund Company and Quantum Fund are so high."

Tims smiled bitterly.

"BOSS. This is difficult. I don't think so. As of October, Soros Fund's profits were US$3.25 billion. I don't know about Quantum Fund, but it should not exceed US$5 billion, because last year Quantum Fund The profit is five billion dollars."

"Quantum Fund hasn't made any big moves this year. I think it's probably just this kind of profit."

It’s not that Quantum Fund didn’t make big moves this year, but in its biggest move this year, it not only didn’t make much money.

Instead, Soros wasted several months and even lost millions of dollars.

Timms didn't dare to say it directly. It was a rare failure for the boss.

Tims had no choice but to say it indirectly and somewhat tactfully.

Soros couldn't help but rub his eyes. He didn't know if the contact lenses were uncomfortable, or if he was in a bad mood.

Compared with Tims, when he was in London, he saw Abel operating Soros on London Gold.

To be honest, he didn't have too much doubt about Smith Capital's profit figure.

Soros remembers that time when Abel made a fortune of almost four billion U.S. dollars in the international financial capital market in just one afternoon.

Subsequently, the Norwegian krone was involved, which cost at least tens of billions of dollars.

Just these two profits that Soros knew about totaled more than 15 billion US dollars.

For the whole year, the total profit was more than 40 billion US dollars.

Soros doesn't think this is a lie.

What's more, this is just a simple total value report. There will definitely be a complete financial report for investors and investors to see later.

This number can deceive people, but in the complete financial report, it is not that easy to deceive people.

Someone will definitely contact a company like PricewaterhouseCoopers to do some accounting.

These top professional people can easily figure out whether Smith Capital and Abel lied!

Thinking of this, Soros knows this number and it is probably true.

In Soros's view, those who can make money are particularly good at making money, and can make many times more money than most people.

This was Abel's greatest reliance.

Abel could not have lied in this regard, for if Abel had been exposed as having lied in this regard.

The consequences would be serious and would cause Abel's current golden body to be shattered.

As long as Abel knew this, Soros felt that he would not mess around.

Soros thought of his interactions with Abel and his observations when he was in London.

The Oilers, one of the well-known representatives in the financial world, believes that Abel will not lie in this regard.

Soros took a deep breath and couldn't help but have a wry smile on his face.

He said to Timms: "This data is probably true. In other words, Abel Smith and his Smith Capital made five times the profits of my two companies in this year! Farke, Farke !”

After talking about it, Soros, the oily guy who was forbidden from swearing by his dogma, couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

Tims felt very sad and felt very much the same as his boss.

At this time, Abel, who was surrounded by the crowd and was receiving the enthusiastic attention of everyone, kept smiling and his expression seemed calm.

At this moment, not far away, the big donkey and the giant elephant, the two giants of Capitol Hill, came over.

Amid the slightly fanatical discussions on Wall Street and the wealthy, the deputy to the owner of the White House, President of the Senate, and Vice President of the United States, Richard Bruce Cheney.

He smiled and extended his hand to Bloomberg, who was standing next to Abel and was smiling the whole time.

"Congratulations, Michael." Richard reached out to him affectionately: "You have won."

Bloomberg was stunned and subconsciously shook Cheney's hand.

He is still congratulating himself for deciding to invest in Smith Capital at the beginning of the year.

Bloomberg, who holds 4% of Smith Capital's shares, is one of the happiest vested interests present, along with Buffett and Sullivanston.

Bloomberg was stunned when he suddenly saw Vice Commander Cheney saying this to him.

Then the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Richard Gephardt, one of the big donkeys, also smiled and extended his hand to him:

"Congratulations, Michael. Mark just decided to admit defeat."

I also shook hands with one of the representatives of the Donkey Party.

Bloomberg finally figured out what was going on.

His face showed joy and he whispered: "Mr. Gephardt, is what you just said true? Has Mr. Mark Green admitted it?"

Richard Gephard shrugged. Although he felt a little unhappy, he still said gracefully:

"Yeah. We lost this time in New York. But we're going to win it back in four years, and I hope you understand that."

"Ha!" Deputy Commander Cheney said immediately, "That's impossible. Richard, if Michael can beat you once, he can beat you again!"

"Hehehe" Richard Gephardt smirked back.

people around this circle.

At this time, through the dialogue between the big donkey and the giant elephant, as well as Bloomberg, I understood one thing.

That is this year’s New York election, which should be the victory of Michael Bloomberg.

Listen to what Richard Gephardt said to Cheney just now.

It was the candidate from the Donkey Party who admitted defeat and announced his withdrawal.

This was considered a tradition before the elephant and the donkey were separated.

That's when elections are held on both sides, when victory is in sight for one side.

After the other party sees that their efforts are ineffective, they will announce congratulations to the other party in the media and admit that they have lost the election. They appear to be polite and gentlemanly.

Now it seems that Mark Green saw that there was no hope of victory and took the initiative to withdraw.

So after today's day, Bloomberg has led Mark Green by 150,000 votes.

Naturally, he was successfully elected as the next mayor of New York City and can take office after January next year.

Abel also realized this, and he looked at Bloomberg who was surprised.

Abel thought for a moment, then suddenly grabbed Bloomberg's hand and raised it.

Then the chairman of Smith Capital loudly announced to the guests present:

"Everyone! Everyone, look over here, look over here. Look at this Mr. Michael Bloomberg next to me. Many of you should know him. He is the founder and chairman of Bloomberg."

"But today, I'm announcing Mr. Bloomberg's alter ego."

"Mr. Bloomberg's new identity is that he has become our new mayor next year. Everyone, how about we applaud our new mayor together?"

As soon as Abel finished speaking, the two Davids and people from Smith Capital immediately took the lead in applauding.

Ted Lerner and Barron Hilton were a little slow to react, but they immediately started applauding.

The guests at the cocktail party all put down their glasses when they saw this, followed Abel's suggestion, and all applauded.

Amidst the huge applause, Bloomberg, who was extremely surprised, turned around and gave Abel a fierce hug——

"Thank you, thank you, dear Abel, my dearest friend! Thank you very much, and thank you all! As the new public servant of New York, I will definitely work hard to serve all citizens of New York during my term of office, and bring beauty and peace to all. Bringing light to everyone”

Amid the applause, many people looked at Bloomberg who was so excited that he took the initiative to hug Abel.

A thought flashed through their minds.

That is, in the city of New York, no one may be able to compete with Abel Smith in the future.

A huge group and consortium with New York as its main base and headed by Abel Smith.

It has taken shape in this moment today.

Look at the people surrounding Abel Smith.

Buffett and Sullivanston are representatives of the two major forces in the American financial community, the East Coast and the Central Region.

Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, founder of Bloomberg, one of the Oilers’ top bosses, and one of the top leaders of the Oilers’ power. He is similar to Soros in the Oilers.

Cheney, President of the Senate, deputy to the owner of the White House. His appearance is a platform for the Elephant Party and George, to some extent Abe Smith!

Even Richard Gephardt, the leader of the Donkey Party. His appearance can also be seen as the Donkey Party's initiative to show favor to Abel Smith and not wanting Abel to completely fall to the Elephant Party.

The simultaneous appearance of these two people can be considered to mean that Abel has become a character worthy of being attracted by both the donkey and the elephant.

In addition to these people, there are Paulson, David Komansky, Philip Purcell, Richard Fuld and so on who surround Abel.

These investment banking giants can also be seen as Wall Street's proactive overtures to Abel.

Against the background of these characters, there are more than 300 guests attending the meeting tonight.

A strange feeling of witnessing the birth of history arose in my heart.

They witnessed the emergence and birth of a new huge interest group with Abel Smith as its core.

some people are thinking.

Maybe a new member will be added to the federal Deep State.

There is another chapter later, but it may be late, so don’t wait until you read it tomorrow.