Chapter 1016

Washington, USA.

It's Tuesday, August 27.

In the private area of the president's family in the east wing of the White House, Bill Clinton, who has quietly shared a room with Hillary Clinton, got up early this morning and sat down in the dining room. At the same time, he could not help but open the latest issue of Forbes magazine just published yesterday.

It's not just the 1.5 trillion dollar personal wealth of the young man at the top of the list that is astonishing, but the whole list is enough to cause too many sighs.

The top ten are the most typical.

First place: Simon westero, 1.5 trillion dollars.

Second place: Bill Gates, 97.1 billion dollars.

Third place: Claire Gaines, 29.5 billion dollars.

Fourth place: Neil Brantley, 29.5 billion dollars.

Fifth place: Paul Allen, 18.6 billion dollars.

Number six: Tim Berners Lee, 17.8 billion dollars.

Seventh place: Jeff Bezos, 17.8 billion dollars.

Eighth place: Carol Bartz, 17.8 billion dollars.

Number nine: Larry Ellison, 15.5 billion dollars.

Fourth place: Warren Buffett, 13.9 billion dollars.

Among the top ten richest people in the United States, the first one is really a strange monster. Not to mention the others, all of them have entered the $10 billion range.

That's not the point.

The most important point is that most of the ten super rich, except Warren Buffett, come from the new technology field which has been rising rapidly in recent years. Moreover, this tendency is more prominent in the list of 400 people.

Once again, it gives people a sense of a new era coming suddenly.

At 7:30 after breakfast, Justice Secretary Janet Reno of the Clinton administration rushed to the White House to have a final discussion with the president about the 9:00 press conference this morning.

Yesterday's "Forbes" list was released. In the face of the hot discussion in the media, something brewing in the White House has come to the best start time.

Because it was also yesterday, August 26, the four-day Democratic National Congress was officially held in Atlanta, Georgia, the host of this session. It is also a ride on the wind of the just concluded Olympic Games. As a serving president, Clinton does not need to attend the whole process, but two days later, on August 29, he will also go to deliver a speech in person and formally accept the nomination of the party .

Then came the Republican National Convention, from August 30 to September 3.

These eight days can be regarded as the complete end of the preliminary stage of the presidential election. After the announcement of the Republican nomination on September 3, the official general election sprint will be fully opened.

Although many things will come to an end in these days, basically there will be no major changes, but the struggle will never stop.

Now that we have determined the strategy of actively attacking the Westeros system in order to avoid falling into a passive position, after intensive preparations these days, taking advantage of the release of the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in the United States, today is also a very suitable time to formally declare war. Only in this way can we have the best effect of public opinion and leave the Republican Party speechless.

After more than half an hour of discussion, Janet Reynolds left in a hurry.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

The U.S. Department of justice held a press conference presided over by Attorney General Janet Renault, and officially announced that the Department of justice would once again launch an investigation into a series of suspected monopoly behaviors of igritte because igritte did not fulfill the agreement reached with the U.S. Department of justice at the end of 1994.

The focus of this investigation is on the illegal behaviors between igrit software and network departments, such as using market advantages to force users to use their own Internet software and cloud computing services, unfair competition brought about by IE browser monopoly, and using market advantages to maliciously suppress competitors.

Although there is a time difference of three hours between the east coast and the west coast, after the press conference held by the Ministry of justice, the person in charge of the east coast division of igritte made a response for the first time. He regretted the investigation of igritte by the Ministry of justice, stressed that igritte is a company that strictly abides by the market rules, and totally denied all accusations of igritte at the press conference held by the Ministry of justice Control.

Igrit portal also released more detailed responses and self defense on its website.

From the launch of Verizon Telecom to the investigation launched by the Department of justice, there was only a 10 day interval, which was enough time for those who should know to know the plan of the White House. Therefore, the ordinary people felt quite sudden about the press conference, but it was no secret whether it was Washington, wall street or silicon valley.

In view of this news incident, all people are more concerned about the possible impact of this investigation on the Nasdaq stock market.

Including the White House. As the initiator of evil,

is more concerned than Clinton. Once the investigation has accidentally broken the technology bubble and triggered a stock market crash, he will not be too good in the next few months. Even if the polls are far ahead of the time, it will be impossible to lose the reelection.Fortunately, in the early risk assessment, the White House staff believed that it would not have too obvious impact on NASDAQ if they only started the investigation and did not take any substantive action for the time being. Moreover, the announcement of the investigation on the second day after Forbes magazine released the new annual US 400 rich list was also based on this consideration.

The list of the 400 richest people in the United States will definitely have a positive impact on the technology stock market. The 2.9% rise of the NASDAQ index after the list was released yesterday is a clear evidence. Therefore, it can largely offset the negative effects brought about by the survey.

The nine o'clock news conference lasted 20 minutes, followed by the opening of the U.S. stock market at 9:30 a.m.

It's a straight down curve.

In just five minutes, the NASDAQ index fell 1.9% from 5263 to 5134.

At this time, the total market value of all enterprises in the Nasdaq market has reached US $6 trillion, with a 1.9% decline. It seems not much, but it also means that in just five minutes, more than US $100 billion of stock wealth has come to nothing.

On the other hand, as the most direct target, the stock price of igrit will inevitably be affected more seriously than the general market after the opening. However, in five minutes, compared with the 1.9% decline of the general market, the decline of igrit's share price is only 2.6%. Even if it means that the book wealth of nearly 10 billion US dollars disappears quickly, it is completely controllable.

In the close attention of all people, after a short dip, the NASDAQ index began to rebound again, and the stock price of igrit also rebounded. Moreover, the imagined selling tide did not appear. So after half an hour, 30 minutes of opening, the NASDAQ index returned to more than 5200 points, and the decline of igrit stock price returned to within the 2% range. Countless people were relieved.

Then there was the Republican fight back.

Bob Dole, the Republican presidential candidate who launched his own website, personally launched a blog at 10 a.m., criticizing Clinton's investigation of igritte company at this time. He is totally bluffing and covering for his serious strategic mistakes in the new technology industry in the past few years.

Bob Dole also said that once he was elected, he would really take strict measures to guide the development of new technology industry, so as to avoid the rise of the wealth dividend of the information age by a few people.

It has to be said that the Republican candidate chose to build his own website, rather than using IBM's network service platform, as many politicians do, to open a Facebook account. Obviously, the details that clearly draw a line with the westero system have also been carefully considered.

Moreover, this speech, in line with yesterday's "Forbes" US 400 rich list, is also to the point.

It is common for almost all people to suffer from inequality rather than poverty.

Many people don't think too much about whether they have the ability to fight against the tide in the surging tide of new technology. They just feel aggrieved when they see that other tide makers have gained huge wealth from it.

Anyway, since you can't get it yourself, it's better for others not to get it either.

However, some people may have noticed, or perhaps not so many people have noticed, that in his speech, Bob Dole did not name a certain name, but only emphasized that he would let more people get the dividend of the new technology industry after he was elected.

Although these words can effectively incite the general public, for those who understand them, they are basically equivalent to saying nothing.

Bob Dole is only a candidate after all, even if the other party is still the majority leader of the Senate, there are not many things he can actually do, just like the casebaum Kennedy bill robbed by Clinton some time ago. Because of the advance of the White House, some Republican members who have been running for a long time to promote this bill are almost angry to vomit blood.

The same is true of the first attack against the westero system.

In fact, after Clinton's decision, the Republican Party also got the news very quickly. However, they still had to wait and see.

Although both houses of Congress also have the power to launch various judicial investigations, and the Republican Party also controlled the whole Congress through the mid-term election two years ago, compared with Clinton's absolute authority in the White House, what Congress wants to do, even if the sponsor occupies a majority of seats, whether it is to promote the bill or launch the investigation, it will take a long time to wrangle.

At least, it would be too late to prepare a survey of the westero system 10 days in advance.

That's why so many people are fighting for the White House.

Congress has great power, but it has hundreds of people.

The White House is just one person's White House, because it has absolute power. Whether it is a member of the staff or cabinet, it needs to obey the orders of the president as the head of state and commander in chief of the three armed forces. Otherwise, he will be fired.

On the other hand, whether the investigation launched by the Department of justice suddenly or the game between the two parties using the Westeros system as a gimmick at the last moment of the general election, it is just a continuation of the list of wealth that shocked the world released yesterday.$1.5 trillion!

What kind of wealth is this? Too many people can't understand it at all. However, everyone knows that such a wealth is so huge that It has made a lot of people feel uneasy.

As a result, the investigation launched by the Department of justice today, even though it has been singled out by many Republicans such as Bob Dole and the right-wing media, as long as someone challenges the westrow system and the man, everyone will feel better.

The president's goal of taking the lead has been achieved.

You know, it's not just the young man who is on the top of the list. There are 400 people in the whole list. They are still not Bill Gates and other less related rich people. They are just "western" billionaires. Compared with 37 people last year, with many new people such as B Girl who founded aliya company on the list, this year's number has rapidly increased to 53. That is to say, the number of people in this country's financial sector is increasing More than one eighth of the people at the top of the rich pyramid came from the westero system.

How can it be balanced? !

therefore, in the tumultuous public opinion, some people once again put forward the idea of wealth tax, that is, an additional tax should be levied on the top of the pyramid to reduce the wealth inequality in this society.

However, because of the fresh memory of a series of adventurous and tough actions taken by someone two years ago, and the strength of the westero system itself, the influence of both the media and the political circles has changed. Therefore, this time, when someone mentions it again, the number of responders is far less than that of two years ago, and the repercussions are even less Few.

Others argue that if some people are forcibly deprived because they have too much wealth, it is tantamount to shaking the foundation of capitalist society.

After all, the United States is not the former Soviet Union. The

vistle system will certainly not be completely indifferent. The guidance of public opinion even opened before the publication of Forbes's list. One of the important directions is to start attacking the serious bubble of technology stocks, and instilling a public figure in the form of various or real or false news, whether it is Simon Westerlo or other technology stocks. Most of the facts are just bubbles.

Ah Q spirit is universal all over the world.

since Simon Westerlo's $about one trillion or billions of billions of other technology stocks are just bubbles, there is not much to be envied.

At the same time, westero system has once again started to publicize the benefits of new technology to ordinary companies on a large scale. It has launched a large number of cases in which ordinary people have turned into millionaires and multimillionaires through blog creation, video publishing, game making and other means relying on Internet platform in recent years, so as to tell the public that the Internet is open to anyone, and all people are rich Everyone has the opportunity to realize his American dream by relying on the Internet.

The uproar caused by the latest Forbes list has spread all over the world, including China.

Moreover, this time, this list, or to be exact, someone on this list, triggered the idea of many people in the upper class of China.

This man ranked 387 on the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in the United States this year. His personal wealth is US $500 million, only US $70 million more than the US $430 million threshold of the 400 list. The industry involved in the note is also a hot "technology" field.

On the original English list, the rich man's name is Su Lin.

Lin su.

This Lin Su, naturally, is also Pi Lin su.

At the beginning, many people didn't react, and they didn't think in a certain direction. After all, subconsciously, they thought that the Forbes list was so high-end, and it was also an American list. What did it have to do with the Chinese people? It wasn't until a girl who had been deliberately bad from the beginning and got the cooperation of her boss took the initiative to release the news that everyone suddenly realized.

A certain Lin Su is actually a Chinese girl who has just immigrated to the United States for only two years.

500 million dollars.

It seems that there are not many on the Forbes list. According to the exchange rate of US dollar to RMB, it is equivalent to RMB 4.3 billion.

What is the concept of RMB 4.3 billion?

There is a very interesting contrast. In 1995, Forbes first paid attention to the rich people in mainland China. For this reason, it listed a list of 17 people. The total personal wealth of these 17 rich people in mainland China is only 4.1 billion yuan, which is not as good as Lin Suyi.