America's Road to Wealth

Looking at John Cleese's expectant eyes.

James Robinson's back was covered in cold sweat. After being stunned for a moment, his heart couldn't help but beat fast.

Yes, if I could defeat Abel Smith once in a head-on confrontation.

Defeat the Wall Street tycoon who has gradually gained the title of "Investment God".

Then I, James, can take my place?

The man who killed the gods took his place and became the new god of investment.

Just thinking about this possibility made James Robinson's adrenaline begin to secrete crazily.

"I...I understand."

James' eyes gradually became crazy and became determined at the same time.

"Trust me, Mr. Morgan."

James Robinson began to ask for support from John Cleese, "I can definitely beat this lucky boy. I believe he will never be so lucky every time!"

It has been since 1999, when Abel emerged on Wall Street.

On Wall Street, one of the smartest human groups in the world, they have never stopped studying Abel.

Wall Street studies Abel's investment style,

Study Abel’s investment experience,

Review every investment operation of Abel,

Even studying every hobby and every little detail of Abel.

Throughout Wall Street, from the past to the present, the number of elite talents staring at Abel's research has never been small.

They are like every American, and indeed everyone in the world, who knows the trajectory of Abe Smith's success.

They all wanted to study Abel to find out why Abel's transactions were successful every time.

They wanted to know what it was that allowed Abel to defeat different opponents again and again.

What is it that allows Abel to have a different operating style every time, but the results are always the same.

James Robinson is one of them.

In the two years from 1999 to 2001, he studied every trading experience of Abel in the market.

Although like other Wall Street people, they have not researched anything.

But James thought he knew Abel very well.

Because he even knew how many times Abel had operated in the market!

"Of course I support you. James, I believe in you. David also believes in you, just go ahead and do it."

John Cleese said with a smile.

What else can we do if we don’t support it? Now that I have decided to give Smith a little color to see.

And James Robinson is one of the best traders in his camp.

So at this time, in addition to supporting James Robinson, John Cleese and the others also had several other traders in other places.

John Chris knew that all he and David could provide were funds and all-round support such as intra-market and off-market moves.

Because in terms of extremely technical operations on the front, he and David are not as good as James and the others.

Seeing John Cleese give such a promise, James Robinson's confidence increased greatly.

"15,000 hands!"

Inside the trading room of JPMorgan Chase.

James Robinson suddenly shouted to the other operators:

"Boys, use the first 100 accounts in Group A and Group B to buy, and go long 15,000 USD/JPY. Also, let our marketing and publicity departments move, we will give that Look at the little cowboy from Texas showing some color!!"

With Morgan and Rockefeller standing behind it, Morgan Chase has had a very strong authority in the market since its merger two years ago.

It took Bloomberg and Dow Jones decades or hundreds of years to accumulate industry reputation.

Morgan Chase has had it since its inception.

Its marketing department and publicity department publish economic and business news and information to the outside world, which can greatly affect the market.

In addition to the head-on confrontation in the foreign exchange market.

James Robinson is going to mobilize the power of Morgan Chase and other related parties.

I hope to use this method, which can be regarded as an intraday move, to target Abel Smith, hoping to affect the market price of USD/JPY.

This creates a situation that favors the bulls, that is, their side.

Seeing that James quickly recovered and made the most correct decision.

John Cleese nodded with satisfaction.

In fact, the head of the Morgen family still believes that Abel's success is due to luck and the nature of a gambler.

In fact, this view is very common among the entire Wall Street, and even among the successful financial elites in the global financial community.

Looking at Abel Smith, since he showed his prominence at the end of 1999.

In the past two years, almost every transaction he made in the market was like a gambler's operation.

The leverage ratio is very high every time, the fluctuations are too big every time, and the profits are very generous every time.

He is like a gambler. In two years, with tens of thousands of dollars at the beginning, he made crazy bets and made crazy profits in financial markets such as foreign exchange, gold, and futures.

It was okay once or twice, and it was like this every time. Many elites in the financial world believed that there were only two situations where this guy could be like this.

The first situation is that this kid can predict the future and is a prophet and god of prophecy in the investment and financial world.

This is so ridiculous that most people don’t believe this is possible unless there really is a God.

As for those who are involved in finance and investment, if they really believed in the existence of God, they would not be able to really make a lot of money and reach the top of the industry.

Which financial tycoon doesn't have blood on his hands?

Warmongers also rely on weapons to kill people, but financial tycoons don't need them to kill people.

If a benevolent God existed, the first people to be punished would be the financiers.

Guys who have really climbed to the top, especially in finance.

On the surface, there are many devout believers among them, but in fact, no one believes in the existence of God.

Therefore, very few people believe in the first possibility.

The second possibility is that this kid has good talent and is very, very, very, very lucky.

The earth is big and there are many people in the world.

Most people are ordinary, but among the huge number of humans.

Even the most rigorous scientists cannot deny that some lucky people are deeply favored by the goddess of luck.

For example, in Croatia, there is an ordinary music teacher named Fran Serak.

Throughout his life, he miraculously escaped death many times.

Including falling out of a flying plane, driving into a cliff, and nearly drowning in an icy river.

According to statistics, he escaped a total of 7 fatal disasters similar to "The God of Death".

Not only that, Fran Serak also won the lottery twice, once for 600,000 pounds and once for 1.06 million pounds...

And Fran Serak is not the only one, there are many similar lucky people.

There is an Englishman named Matthew McDonald. This person's luck value is not as high as Fran Serak's, but it is not low either.

His experience started when he was struck by lightning for the first time when he was 13 years old. By the time he was fifty, he had been struck by lightning five times in total in 37 years...

And he's not dead yet.

Being struck by lightning is particularly unlucky, and is less than the number of people who win more than $100,000 in lottery tickets around the world every year.

To survive being struck by lightning is to turn bad luck into super luck.

However, this guy was hacked five times and didn’t die...

I don’t know if I’m unlucky or lucky.

If this were replaced by ancient Chinese immortality novels, this guy would have succeeded in overcoming tribulations five times, and he would be even more powerful than Daluo Jinxian.

There are many such lucky people, and some appear every year.

Their experience seems much more outrageous than Abel's huge profits from all his investment transactions in two years.

Most Wall Street people who have studied Abel therefore believe that Abel's success is due to excellent talent, keen financial intuition, and super luck.

The first two are shared by many successful people on Wall Street.

It's just that these people can't last long, and they usually disappear after a few years.

Now that so many people have been like this.

Naturally, many people think that Abel is also such a short-lived genius.

Even if he is now in a high position.

There are too many examples of this in human history.

Is the mustache awesome?

A failed art student made most of the world tremble under his beard, but he failed in the end.

In the business world, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the richest man in the United States at that time, once monopolized 90% of the railroads in the United States at its peak.

When he died before 1877, although his property was only US$105 million, it accounted for 1/87 of the US GDP at that time.

But now?

The Vanderbilt family has lost its voice.

A small number can barely maintain a middle-class life, and many even live in slums altogether.

This planet is huge, and there are too many individuals in the human race.

It’s not surprising that there are freaks, weirdos, geniuses, tycoons, and heroes here.

Legends such as Abel Smith, whose experiences are outrageous, are still understood by most elites.

Since it can be understood, there are inevitably some geniuses and elites who think they can defeat Abel or even replace him.

James, who is secreting adrenaline like crazy, is now one of these people.

John Cleese actually has the same mentality.

So the real, invisible war between the two sides has officially begun.

U.S. time, 9 a.m. on April 2, 2002.

The Wall Street Journal published an article by JPMorgan Chase Bank that was pessimistic about Neon’s future economic development.

Morgan Chase Bank believes that the neon bubble period of the 1990s has exhausted all the country's development potential.

Now in the new century, it is no longer easy for Neon to ensure its share of global GDP.

Therefore, Morgan Chase Bank will not purchase Japanese bonds again in the future, but instead stated that it will continue to sell the Japanese bonds currently in their hands.

As soon as JPMorgan Chase made this argument, the selling rate of Japanese bonds increased by 13% month-on-month that morning.

Affected by this, the exchange rate of the Japanese yen began to fluctuate downward.

The exchange rate of the U.S. dollar against the Japanese yen increased, and the multi-line trend of the U.S. dollar/yen currency pair strengthened.

That day, time zone East 9th District, Neon Tokyo is 8pm.

Neon, Tokyo.

Neon Bridge, Naka-ku, Tokyo, is where the headquarters of Neon Bank, the central bank of Neon, the world's second largest economic power, is located.

This night, in the Neon Bank Building.

In the office of the Kuroda Group, one of the special economic action teams.

Akihiko Kuroda, the leader of the well-born team, has bloodshot eyes and thick dark circles, and is looking at the computer screen in front of him.

"...Baga! These hateful rice beasts are treating our currency and national debt as a battlefield!"

The rugged Japanese yen exchange rate chart made Kuroda Akihiko feel very bad.

"Mr. Kuroda, are we still waiting to see what happens? The yen seems to be falling further. Just now, the monitoring team found that the rice traders bought another 16,000 lots. At the same time, their opponents shorted another 14,000 lots. Hedging. There are now more than 1.5 million USD/JPY positions in the foreign exchange market."

A small leader of Kuroda Akihiko's economic special operations team took the A4 paper faxed from the fax machine and reported to Kuroda Akihiko.

The Japanese yen has been a major player in the foreign exchange market since the 1970s and is one of the major international safe-haven currencies.

The market is large enough. Most of the time, the stock of Japanese yen futures contracts is more than 800,000 lots.

Compared with other currencies except the US dollar, the plate is much larger.

But now within 36 hours, the number of positions has reached 1.5 million, which is abnormal no matter how you look at it.

"Haga, Hayami-sama and Kuroda-sama asked us to wait and see what happens. Of course we can only wait and see what happens!"

Although I really want to join the fight.

But Kuroda Akihiko understood that if the superiors did not allow it, he would do whatever he wanted.

The possible consequences would be that even his brother might not be able to save himself.

What's more, his brother Fuyuhiko Kuroda is still only the vice president of Neon Bank.

In the near future, he may be transferred to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs to serve as president of the Asian Development Bank.

Although for my brother, this transfer is a promotion.

But for Kuroda Akihiko himself.

When my brother left Neon Bank. Kuroda Akihiko's own voice inside Neon Bank had to be lowered a bit.

After all, the county magistrate is not as good as the current one. The vice president of Neon Bank can manage much more than the president of the Asian Development Bank within Neon Bank.

As for the battle between the rice beasts over the yen exchange rate, both his brother Fuyuhiko Kuroda and the governor Yu Hayami asked them, the protectors of the yen and Japanese debt, to wait and see what happens.

The special economic power of Neon is requested not to give up for the time being and let the rice beasts fight on their own.

So even if you think about the outcome in your heart.

Now Akihiko Kuroda can only stare at the Japanese yen's exchange rate war, standing on the outside feeling secretly worried.

It's just that this kind of watching is too torturous for the young and energetic Kuroda Akihiko.

The two sides were fighting over the Japanese yen and Japanese debt, and the news they passed on made Kuroda Akihiko twice as anxious.

"...The selling rate of Japanese bonds increased by 6.5% from yesterday, and is still growing."

"...The Japanese yen continues to depreciate, crossing the 130-yen line against the U.S. dollar."

"The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism announced on April 2, 2002, the real estate price index for "residential" in March 2002 and "commercial real estate" in the first quarter of the same year. Calculated using the 10-year average as 100. The comprehensive housing index in March 2002 was 95.8, a monthly decline of 1.6%. Neon’s nationwide residential land index was 92.9, down 1.8%, one-family home was 94.1, down 2.3%, and apartments was 114.4, up 0.3%..."

"..."

The data sent to Kuroda Akihiko, due to the confrontation between the two powerful rice beasts, was almost all bad news that was unfavorable to Neon's economy and exchange rate.

In fact, Kuroda Akihiko knows that the falling yen exchange rate is not entirely a bad thing for Neon.

Because Neon is an export-oriented economy, it mainly earns profits by exporting products.

Therefore, the more the yen depreciates, the stronger Neon’s foreign trade competitiveness becomes, because Japanese goods become relatively cheaper.

When goods become cheaper, buyers naturally tend to buy more Japanese goods.

But the depreciation of the yen cannot be considered a good thing, precisely because Neon is an export-oriented economy.

Except for a few industries, such as romance and action movies.

Most neon industries and national needs depend on imports from foreign countries.

If the yen depreciates, the cost of imported raw materials will increase.

Therefore, excessive depreciation of the yen is also detrimental to the development of the neon economy.

It is best to be in an intermediate state, a value that is most beneficial to the economic development of the country.

This is also the most desirable state for most foreign trade-oriented countries.

The current problem is that the fierce confrontation between the rice beasts has greatly affected the stability of the Japanese yen exchange rate and Japanese debt.

I just couldn't bear it anymore.

Kuroda Akihiko looked at the time, finally walked to a secret room, picked up the secret phone, and secretly called his brother Kuroda Fuyuhiko.

"Onisan, it's me, I want..."

"It's Akihiko. I know what you mean by calling me. I'm on my way to Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo."

After hearing his brother's words, Kuroda Akihiko suddenly became energetic.

Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo is where the Neon Imperial Palace is located.

But that place is also the current core of Neon's real power, the location of the Neon Capitol Building.

In neon, "Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku" basically refers to the Diet.

"Hey! Since Onisan has something big to do, I won't disturb you!" Kuroda Akihiko said quickly.

He waited quietly for his brother to hang up the phone.

In Neon, juniors call their elders.

Or a subordinate calls his superior. Juniors and subordinates are absolutely not allowed to hang up the phone on their own initiative.

If you do that, it will be considered disrespectful and inconsistent with neon ethics. If it spreads, you will be punished by society.

In Neon, class concepts are very exaggerated.

In this regard, Hanguo actually learned from Neon from the beginning.

It’s just that later it started to feel a little better than it was…

Fuyuhiko Kuroda did not hang up the phone immediately, but said to his brother gently:

"Akihiko, I know you and many others are anxious. But it is useless to be anxious about this kind of thing. Governor Hayami and I are heading to the Diet. I believe that the members of the Diet will discuss countermeasures soon. ”

"Hey! I understand." Kuroda Akihiko said immediately.

"That's it." Fuyuhiko Kuroda hung up the phone.

Kuroda Akihiko put down the phone and breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he did not leave the office with the secret phone. Instead, he did not even turn on the light in the darkness, looking at the phone quietly and sitting quietly.

This ride lasted more than 4 hours.

During this period, except for going to the toilet to eat and drink water, Kuroda Akihiko almost stayed there the entire time.

He just stared at the phone.

Neon time, 1:15 a.m. on April 3.

The phone in front of Kuroda Akihiko rang suddenly.

The leader of the special operations team opened his eyes in the darkness and grabbed the phone.

"Mixi Mixi, this is the Neon Bank Economic Special Operations Kuroda Group, and I am Kuroda Akihiko."

"Akihiko, it's me."

"Onisan! I've been waiting for your call."

"Well, you're waiting. Let's start taking action. The resistance of the rice beasts has already affected us. We have to go down and bring fire to them, but we must obey the command, understand? President Yu Hayami will personally direct this special operation. "

"Hi!" Kuroda Akihiko said excitedly. He had been waiting a day and a night for this news.

The excited Kuroda Akihiko wanted to wait for his brother to hang up the phone, and then start his great work of saving the Japanese yen exchange rate and Japanese debt.

As a result, I heard my brother say softly:

"Remember. You must obey the command and completely follow the command of President Yu Hayami. By the way, I will call you every once in a while. It is a secret phone number. Remember to keep the line open."

Kuroda Akihiko was stunned and thought a lot in that moment.

"Hi Yi!"

In the end, the leader of the Special Economic Action Group responded decisively.

There are some errors in the previous information. At this time, Fuyuhiko Kuroda was not the president of Neon Bank. The president of Neon Bank was Yu Hayami, so I made some adjustments.