Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 393 released

  People often say that the rich also eat three meals a day, and they are no better than them.

Three meals are true, but the quality of the food is different. The caviar on top of the sushi costs 20,000 US dollars for a small can, and the tuna meat is cut from a bluefin tuna weighing more than 600 pounds. The price of a meal for two was as high as three to three thousand U.S. dollars at the final checkout, which was equivalent to a month's salary of an ordinary white-collar worker.

  Rich people enjoy the best resources in the world, whether it is education, food, medical care, etc. What Ye Dongqing has now is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

When others received harassing calls, they were just concerned about stocks, investment and financial management. He was amazing. He had just finished his meal when he received a call from a Dubai company asking if Ye Dongqing was interested in the Dubai World Island project. "It hasn't been bought yet, the price is only 41 million U.S. dollars, and I usually receive calls from top jewelers, auction houses, and high-end real estate companies, which means that the private number has been spread in a small area.

I haven't complained to the telecommunications company yet, because some messy things are more interesting. Sotheby's auction house recommended Rene Magritte's oil painting "Banquet" to him some time ago, and it was finally sold by Ye Dongqing in the form of telephone auction for 7,000 yuan. I got more than ten thousand US dollars, and I am still collecting pop art oil paintings by the American painter Lichtenstein recently.

  In the words of the accounting firm—do you want to save the money to pay taxes if you don’t spend it?

  Dubai World Island Project.

  In 2001, a developer planned to build 300 artificial islands four kilometers from the coast of Dubai, forming an artificial archipelago according to the shapes of the world's continents. The "America" ​​is relatively large, so the price is also high.

Ye Dongqing said that he was interested, but in fact he knew that these small islands were difficult to sell. At the same price, you can rent and buy larger and safer islands in the Bahamas, Hawaii, Southeast Asia, and the Mediterranean Sea. , so why buy an island that may be unfinished at any time, and there is a risk of sinking.

  In the previous life, due to the subprime mortgage crisis sweeping the world, the World Island project was unfinished. This time, I don’t know if it will be successful. The seller thought he really wanted to buy it, and offered to help arrange a hotel for free, so he could come and have a look.

  Never been to Dubai before, and the private jet is in New York. Ye Dongqing wanted to go, but there was a small oil bottle at home, so she finally refused.

Reminded by this incident, the idea of ​​buying an island once again took shape in his mind. He will have to pay taxes again in March and April. If he doesn’t spend some quickly, he will definitely have to pay a lot of money considering last year’s income. It’s better to buy it again. An island comes back for usual vacation use.

Considering the relationship with Maxi, and the fact that most of them will be able to get the shares of the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas, they don’t have to worry about having no place to stay when they go on vacation in the Bahamas. Pretty good yacht.

Wealth is growing explosively, there is no need to deliberately save money. For Ye Dongqing nowadays, being happy is the most important thing. In order to avoid the embarrassment of having money but not spending it, she also tested her genes recently, and the conclusion is that she is relatively healthy. But it is possible to suffer from high blood pressure when you are forty or fifty years old. From now on, you must pay attention to your diet and increase your activity.

  After discussing with Laura, they both felt that Hawaii was pretty good, so on the way home, Ye Dongqing used her mobile phone to check the news about the islands for sale.

  …

The Securities and Exchange Commission paid more attention to Ye Dongqing's suggestion. Coupled with Washington's attention, subprime housing loans were suddenly tightened. The Federal Reserve also intervened in it and announced another rate hike to prevent the risk of overheating in the real estate industry. .

Credit rating companies cannot fail. They rely on the global commercial credit system and have announced rectification news. Under the urging of the Securities and Exchange Commission, they have revised the ratings of various subprime CDO products. Within the acceptable range, it is similar to the prediction of Ye Dongqing's group of think tanks.

As a result, Ye Dongqing made another fortune through fresh water investment and hedge funds. The amount was not large, about 70 to 80 million U.S. dollars. Then he stopped paying attention to this matter and turned his attention to the oil market. It is bullish and uses hedging to reduce risk.

  A heavy snow covered New York, and the weather was so cold that people wanted to escape.

After he made several phone calls and asked where there were private islands for sale, the high-end real estate circle seemed to be crazy. Many super agents and real estate companies took the initiative to find them, including those from Australia, Canada, and Northern Europe. On the other hand, good news also came from Southeast Asia and the Bahamas, which made my eyes dazzled for a while.

Nothing happened recently, so Ye Dongqing simply went to Fiji. This country is located in the South Pacific near Australia and has relatively good natural scenery. After staying with Laura for two days, she decided to buy a small island here, and then went to Greece. Forty-six million pounds to buy Omfuri Island.

Just when people were amazed that he had bought the most expensive island in Greece, there was news that the Cabbage Island in the Bahamas and the Serralvo Island in the Gulf of California, Mexico, were acquired by Ye Dongqing, and a new real estate company was born immediately. It is said that Ye Dongqing invested in these islands to build them into tourist islands.

  For more than half a month, I flew all over the world, and spent a total of almost 500 million US dollars, which felt very good.

In order to avoid being crusaded by ordinary people, a real estate company was set up to anchor these islands under the banner of investment. It is better to be accepted by others than to tell people that it is for their own vacation enjoyment. Subsequent renovations may have to spend more With a loss of one or two billion US dollars, some islands do not even have water and electricity.

   When the transformation is completed, those islands will become more valuable, and small-scale tourist groups can also bring in a certain amount of income, which is enough to maintain the daily operations of the islands, so it cannot be said to be a loss.

After being hit by the cold wind from New York again, Ye Dongqing began to miss the good weather in the southern hemisphere. Even in Cerralbo Island, the temperature was much higher than in New York. The cold air from the north drove southward from Canada and entered the United States. There are no mountains on the way to New York, and Seattle, which is close to the Pacific Ocean, is more livable.

  The following days were busy, and nothing major happened. He participated in several activities, went to Philadelphia, and also went to Washington DC. In a blink of an eye, time entered May.

  In the early morning of the 22nd at the end of May, long queues formed at the entrances of Apple's direct sales stores.

  iTouch will go on sale at 8 o'clock, and there are only 200,000 units in the world. The next arrival may take two weeks, so many impatient guys got up early to buy.

  There are many trial videos on YouTube, and Ye Dongqing also posted her experience on Facebook yesterday, praising it like a flower...

  (end of this chapter)