The Goddess Shines on America

When the first snow of winter came to New York State, it happened to be November 22, which was only 11 days later than November 11. This heavy snowfall was far more violent than the weather station reported. When many residents woke up overnight, they were all surprised to find that the whole city seemed to have become a city of Northland covered in silver, even Toronto could not compare to it. .

"Today the temperature is low, please prepare for the cold, and pay attention to the arrival of heavy snow. In addition, a stream of cold air from the North Atlantic..."

Yesterday’s weather forecast was broadcast on the TV. Now it’s true. Lying on the sofa in the living room of his bachelor’s apartment in Queens, New York, Haripness, who has just gotten up, eats after-dinner potato chips while sitting on the sofa. Switching on various stations repeatedly, listening to news from various channels.

Recently, Harry, who was just in his early twenties, got a job to use his superb computer skills to do regular maintenance for the computers of the New York Stock Exchange. Because he showed an unparalleled ability in front of the executives, he even had a privilege, and he only needed to go to the exchange every three days, and his salary would still be calculated as a monthly salary.

According to Harry's judgment, his job is obviously the harvest that happened in March this year. Although from the standpoint of a single incident, IBM’s case has been lost in succession since it not long ago, and finally ended with a loss of tens of millions of dollars for Microsoft and Nasdaq, but the whole world as one can be regarded as disturbed by this incident. It turned the sky over.

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Even according to Harry's understanding, the computer science college students who graduated in June this year, especially Stanford and other prestigious Ivy League schools, suddenly ushered in a wave of employment. Not only the major exchanges, but many investment companies on Wall Street, many companies that have a deep relationship with the Internet are also spending huge sums of money to recruit webmasters, and the more highly educated, the more exaggerated the salary increase. There is a posture of only academic qualifications!

For a time, when September came again, the computer departments of major colleges and universities even ushered in a wave of enrollment. When many recent high school students learn that those seniors who are four years older than their university can easily enter some quite high-end companies with a computer science certificate, there seems to be no suspense about their professional choice.

Harry was such a beneficiary. As a New York University dropout, he still had some worries about getting a job. You know, because of the fact that I dropped out of school, although my parents didn't say anything, they were disappointed. It's okay now, it's easy to solve!

Therefore, this also made Harry so young that he had the capital to go to work every three days, and he would usually be able to finish work in half a day. With 30 hours of work a month, he can receive a huge monthly salary. He can almost die of laughter in his dreams recently!

"Well... it doesn't seem to look good."

At this moment, he was sitting lazily on the sofa. After breakfast, when the entire New York office workers were struggling on the morning rush hour, he was worried about the TV show not knowing which one to watch.

"Let's take a look at "Japan Observation"."

After thinking about it, it seemed that it was time for the show to begin, and Harry changed the channel to a certain station.

"Japan Observation" is a program launched three years ago, that is, around 83, when the Japanese economy began to flourish. The program is once a week, dedicated to real-time observation of the country’s economic development. Of course, related cultural industry trends are occasionally mentioned. For example, when the new Gundam animation was released, the commentator took the last ten years The development of Japanese animation became a topic, and a special program was made.

After the beginning of this episode, Harry realized that it was a special introduction to Japan's investment in the United States.

"We are currently experiencing a worrying situation. Believe it or not, from November last year to the same period this year, Japan has invested a total of 3 billion U.S. dollars in our Hawaii, dedicated to real estate investment."

The TV host said with anxiety: “According to the statistics of our reporter’s visit to Hawaii, in this year, one-third of the luxury hotels in Pearl Harbor Beach area, as well as a large number of buildings, large restaurants and shopping centers , And the entire two golf courses, as well as many livestock farms and plantations, are already under Japanese capital management."

"According to statistics, from November 1980 to the same period in 1986, Japan's direct investment in the United States has increased by about eight times. This is a very terrible situation. The most obvious data that everyone feels is that of Japan. Financial power has already accounted for 25% of the daily trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange!"

"We can't help but come up with the idea. Could it be that the United States is really going to sunset to the west? The country of the sun in the east will really rise and buy our entire country as they wish?"

When the show saw this, Harry changed the channel without waiting for the experts invited in the follow-up to speak.

"The nonsense is not just trying to establish a negative image of Japan among the people."

With such a sneer, Harry actually changed the channel back. The new guest on the stage was an expert who studied Japan. He began to make rounds of judgments about his purchases during this period of time.

"It is true to say that the current investment focus is real estate."

Ignoring the experts on TV, Harry muttered to himself: "When a country develops its economy, it will definitely experience a wave of real estate, but it's definitely going to plummet."

What is the difference between Harry and other classmates is that he knows how to use various ways to understand countless things that ordinary people don't care about. After a long time, even if you call yourself a miscellaneous scholar. He understood the concept of financial bubbles as early as the sixth grade. The current situation in Japan is obviously a real estate bubble!

You know, for most countries, even if the real estate bubble really occurs, it will skyrocket up to one or two times in a very long period of time, and Japan's speed and extent have long surpassed this. In the category, almost anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a typical bubble shape.

Just like the United States, when Harry got bored earlier, he investigated the history of real estate prices in the United States because of the incident in Japan.

He went back a hundred years, and set the price of 1890 to 100 as the standard. In 1900 it was around 120, and then fell back to its original position within a few months. During the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s, housing prices fell to a trough of 6 or 70. During World War II, even the effects of Roosevelt's New Deal were wiped out, and they have been hovering in this range. But with the advent of the golden age, prices immediately rose steadily, instantly returning to the level of 1900.

That’s right, Harry clearly found that apart from the 40% plunge during the Great Depression, housing prices across the United States have remained within the range of 10% increase or decrease for a full 100 years, that is, after entering the 1980s. , The peak broke above 20% in an instant, and then fell back in a few months.

But what the **** is the situation in Japan now?

In 1985, the price index of commercial land in Tokyo was 120, but now, a mere year later, its price has soared by more than 60%!

If Harry remembers correctly, it seems that at the beginning of this year, it was still 20%?

God, even though the United States is experiencing the Great Depression, it will only plummet by 40%! ?

Japan actually achieved a 60% surge in half a year! ?

And this momentum is not over yet! ?

Harry had told his buddies on the Internet a long time ago that if this is not a bubble, he will be disconnected from the Internet!

Oh, yes, Harry has always described himself as a geek. The so-called geek originally referred to the semantics of superior intelligence and hard work, but now it is used to describe people who have a fanatical interest in computer and network technology and have invested a lot of time in research. What new meanings there will be in the future is the future, and as far as Harry feels now, he certainly deserves the title.

Therefore, to travel freely on the Internet as a hacker, of course, has become an indispensable hobby.

In fact, Harry gave himself a very interesting code name, called HP.

Speaking of, as early as two years ago, Harry met a kid on the Internet, his nickname is KM, a pretty arrogant guy who claimed to have invaded the North American air defense command system many years ago.

Harry and Zeng KM discussed the IBM incident, analyzed the technical feasibility, and even went to the Nasdaq exchange network for a circle~www.readwn.com~Results It proves that if they are willing to spend some time to study the relevant program logic carefully, they can really affect the system's statistical results of call auctions!

However, just when Harry was gloating at IBM, KM came up with an ingenious idea.

"Could there be other super hackers who deliberately hacked IBM?"

This idea can exist, and this idea can really exist. After the two proved the possibility of this measure together, the truth of such a guess naturally increased infinitely. It's not surprising that IBM's masters can do it, but since the two of them can also do it...

In the entire American society, how many nasty computer masters are hidden in it?

It's a pity that Harry hasn't seen KM go online recently. He clearly said that when he meets next time, he will greet him with a picture of a beautiful woman composed of the number 8, but now he is gone.

What is KM doing?

Harry said that he was really interested. (To be continued.)