America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 310 More valuable than gold are patriots

2001.

   Explosions from Manhattan, New York.

   Opens a new chapter on this planet.

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

  In the master bedroom of a hot spring villa on the outskirts of Milan.

  Warm and fragrant nephrite jade in his arms.

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

  He converted the time on the clock and knew that it was around eight to nine in the morning in the United States.

   Then what should have happened has happened.

  Abel pushed away the big KK Karolina Kurkova lying on top of him.

  He got off Simmons carefully, for fear of stepping on the Elizabeth angels lying everywhere.

   While walking out, he put his hands on his waist, mainly because he was a little numb.

  It can make him, who has an abnormal physique, also show this kind of performance.

  Then only the angels swarmed up, relying on group fighting tactics 25vs1, ruthlessly suppressed His Majesty the Satanic Demon King.

   Tiptoeing, Abel walked out of the master bedroom.

  Outside the master bedroom, there is a platform covered with soft carpets, and there are also several angels who have "fallen" due to "war".

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

  No matter how lightly Abel moved, he still accidentally woke up a few of them.

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

  The supermodels who woke up nodded at him with a sweet smile, and continued to rest.

   After much difficulty, Abel finally got out of the messy "battlefield".

  He appeared in the living room outside the villa.

   Watch the boss appear here in pajamas.

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

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

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

   "What kind of big deal?"

  David recounted 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're going back to New York right now!"

  David hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "Boss, I personally think it is a little risky to go back to New York now. No one can guarantee that such a thing will not happen a third time"

   If it happens again, then I will think about evacuating the United States.

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

   "Because I know the danger, I should go back to New York. Although I am a Texan, New York is also my second home. I want to go back to my hometown, see what I mean?"

  Seeing the boss showing such an appearance at such a dangerous moment.

  Edward and David were surprised, but at the same time they were a little moved.

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

  Edward also said: "I'll get someone to prepare it."

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

  David came back to report the results soon, and the results 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 the U.S. airspace during this period will be subject to sniping."

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

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

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

   After comforting and arranging a lot of people and things, he became quieter.

   At this time, Elizabeth's angels have also woken up, and they know what happened in New York.

  Everyone's reaction was shock and panic.

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

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

  The New York Stock Exchange and other domestic exchanges in the United States announced a four-day holiday.

  The owner of the white house who was giving a speech to elementary school students in a primary school in Virginia that day.

   Immediately rushed back to the White House, and launched a televised speech to the whole country that night, announcing a state of emergency in the United States

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

  In two days, federal departments at all levels secretly detained, arrested, and questioned 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 liked to question the authorities the most, have also been quiet.

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

   Originally, in terms of authority, it belonged to the little George Bush authority of the super small government.

   Also because of this incident, he took power in an instant.

  On September 14, the closed airspace of the United States was opened.

  Abel's Boeing 747 is about to take off.

   Landed at JFK International Airport in New York seven hours later.

  Abel, who returned to the United States, did nothing. He went directly to No. 1 Thirteenth Road, King Point, New York.

  During the quiet few days, he didn't even go out for a single step other than calling to appease the woman and his subordinate company.

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

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

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

   Deadline September 20.

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

  Although the white house injected a lot of money into the stock market.

   Panic selling is still unavoidable, the major stock indexes continue to fall until the lowest point in 3 years.

  The world's largest stock market fell.

  The stock markets of other countries are also difficult to improve, and the slump in the stock market will inevitably affect the confidence of investors and consumers in various countries.

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

  The share prices of the most affected airlines fell even more.

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

  The U.S. dollar index was even more violent. From the previous 119.65, by September 20, it was only 100.93.

  This shows that the sovereign currencies of the world's major economic powers have all risen against the US dollar.

  Typical such as the Norwegian krone held by Abel in large quantities.

  Before this happened, the NOK/USD exchange rate had been hovering around 7.6800.

   That is, 7.68 NOK can be exchanged for one US dollar.

  After this incident, it will end on September 20.

  The exchange rate between NOK and USD has become 6.9500.

   That is less than 7 NOK, which can be exchanged for one dollar.

  The dollar value of NOK 600 billion held by Abe also increased from 78.125 billion.

   becomes $86.33 billion.

  Like the island of Manhattan in New York, it is where multinational financial companies gather.

  The businesses of these companies are more or less affected.

  Companies with offices located in buildings are even more unlucky.

   Their business was almost paralyzed, and a lot of data was lost.

  The famous companies include Bank of America, Bank of Asahi, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley Financial Corporation, American Commodity Futures Exchange and so on.

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

  Of course, very coincidentally, the CEOs and chairman of these big companies.

   None of them had an accident.

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

  According to the internal statistics of Wall Street, among the missing and dead people, the highest-ranked person was a middle-level executive of a U.S. commodity futures exchange.

   is so magical.

  The total payment of the global insurance industry this time will be between 15 billion and 30 billion US dollars.

  During 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 apart from the airlines, the global insurance industry was the most severely hit by this incident.

  Munich Reinsurance, Swiss Reinsurance, Lloyd's of London, General Reinsurance and other companies were all seriously injured by this incident.

  September 21st.

  New York has finally initially restored order.

  Queens, Smith Building.

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

one hour later.

  The huge floor-to-ceiling windows next to the office sofa rest area, Abel looked at Manhattan across the East River in New York with his hands in his pockets.

  The skyscrapers are still there, but the proud twins are missing from the buildings.

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

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

  The words "God bless America", after George Bush yelled it in the White House that day.

   has become the most yelled sentence on the lips of Americans in the past ten days.

   It seems that if you don’t say a few more words like this, you are not an American at this moment.

   is like an American thief.

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

   After Abel pretended to shout again.

  The three giants also had to read it.

  Same as chanting scriptures, this is currently the largest ZZZQ in the United States.

   Those who do not follow this ZZZQ are the biggest enemy of the United States right now.

   After the "chanting" is finished.

  Abel raised his hand to check the time, it was almost noon.

  He looked up at the three giants, "Everyone, O'Neill's appointment time is up. We should go."

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

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

   Now is the time to end the show.

  Bloomberg left alone.

  Buffett and Sullivanston set off from Smith Building with Abel's motorcade in a car.

  After driving for half an hour, the convoy came to a building in Brooklyn.

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

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

   After much difficulty, the three of Abel got off the car before arriving at the building.

   Under the **** of some special staff, walked into the building.

after a little while.

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

  Many people have already come in the conference hall.

  Abel glanced around and saw many acquaintances.

  Like David Komansky, Philip Purcell, Richard Fuld, Paulson, etc.

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

   At this time, if there is a cruise bomb, attacking from the building above the head, and razing the building to the ground.

   Then basically the American financial group can be wiped out.

   "It's a big fight."

  PNC Financial Services Group CEO and Chairman, Sullivanston whispered to Abel and Buffett.

  Abel found Soros in the crowd.

  The latter is also looking at him.

  The two looked at each other and smiled, and they seemed to have a good relationship.

   It seems that half a month ago, the fierce confrontation between the two in USD/NOK did not happen.

  Buffett waited for Abel to finish greeting Soros, and the stock **** said softly to Abel:

   "Abel, tell me. Paul's call today means the White House?"

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

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

Abel shrugged, "Actually, I don't know either. That guy is too busy now. My father-in-law is not in power. But I think it's the White House. Paul Henry O'Neill doesn't deserve our attention. "

   Buffett and Sullivanston nodded slightly when they saw what he said.

  Paul Henry O'Neill, the new finance minister of the White House, has conflicts with the White House and even the ruling party, which many people know.

  The reason why he is also allowed to hold the important position of finance minister is mainly because Paul Henry O'Neill himself is indeed capable.

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

  Paul Henry O'Neill just can't figure this out.

  As a member of the ruling party, he stares at the white house all day long, especially the leader.

  Finally in a parallel time and space, he will be stepped down next year.

  Because of Paul Henry O'Neill's disagreement with the White House, the upper class in the United States knew that Paul Henry O'Neill had no power.

   Wall Street itself is not a big bird finance minister, let alone a finance minister with little power.

   Such a finance minister, if there is no White House support.

  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 chatted quietly, and everyone else in the conference room was also chatting.

  Paul Henry O'Neill After half an hour, he hurriedly led many people to appear.

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

  Paul Henry O'Neill is a typical white elite. As early as when Herbert became the owner of the White House, he wanted to invite him to be the chief of defense.

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

  Dick Cheney is the deputy of 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 finance minister.

  This finance minister with great personal ability, once he appeared, he gave a contagious speech-like line.

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

  That is, the country needs you, the United States needs you, why don’t you hurry up and spend money to support the stock market?

  The giant crocodiles didn't say a word, but things obviously won't be so easy.

  No one would speak, Paul Henry O'Neill started the roll call.

   It is estimated that this guy is really at odds with the White House. Hundreds of Wall Street giants and American financial giants are sitting here.

  Paul Henry O'Neill doesn't order anyone.

  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 the present. 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 also fifty or sixty years old.

  The old ones are in their seventies or eighties.

  Those staff standing against the wall are young 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 was also looking at Abel.

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

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

   "Smith Capital has gradually converted 600 billion NOK 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 give 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 of Abel's plan and approved of it.

   In fact, it is useless to disagree. Abel has an absolute controlling stake in Smith Capital.

   What the two of them and Bloomberg can do is at best the right to withdraw shares.

  In other respects, even dividends depend on Abel's will.

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

  Because compared to Abel’s clear statement that he would convert foreign exchange into dollars, and then put the funds into the U.S. stock market.

  His doing so is tantamount to supporting the US dollar first, and then US stocks.

   The support is terrible.

   Compared to him.

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

  The other two-thirds of the people watched with cold eyes, choosing to shrink and wait and see.

   There is no one who has clearly rescued the market.

   So far, except for the official, no one has entered the market to save 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 beside Abel also stood up.

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

   "But I am also a patriot. Berkshire Hathaway will follow in the footsteps of Smith Capital and join this action to save the US stock market."

  The CEO of PNC Financial Services Group stood up.

   "So is PNC."

  The joint statement of the three made the audience fall into silence.

   It took me three hours to write this chapter, and the harmony was deepened. If I didn’t write the foreshadowing, I’m sorry for myself for waiting so long. That's it in the end. I am very dissatisfied, but that's all I can do

  (end of this chapter)