Chapter 1382

He gently went forward to help his boss fasten his shirt button, and angri Davis could not help looking at the two Miaoman figures under the thin cover in the direction of the big bed.

It's hard to be eccentric.

In the past few years, angri has found that little men, who are more and more aloof in front of him, are always able to put seemingly unrelated women together on the big bed. Most of the women, one by one, may be the dream goddess that many men want to kiss Fangze day and night.

Simon ignored the strange carefulness of the housekeeper in front of him, who was apparently breathing fast. He dressed and hurried downstairs.

This is August 20.

Thursday.

The location is Simon's apartment on 68th street, upper east side.

Just last night, when Simon fell in love with two women who were quite different in appearance, temperament, style and even age, Celia Miller, who was upgraded from a personal military assistant to Simon's assistant for Eastern European and African affairs, rushed back from Moscow and came to Simon's side after landing.

It's simple,.

Russia's economic crisis, which has been accumulated for more than half a year, finally broke out.

The financial turmoil in Asia last year made the countries all over the world withdraw funds in order to ensure the stability of their own economic situation. Eastern Europe, which has been attracting foreign investment for development in recent years, has been robbed. The capital outflow for nearly a year has made the economy of Eastern Europe even worse.

Russia bears the brunt.

Just talking about foreign debt, compared with other mini economies, Russia's current total foreign debt of various types has reached 150 billion US dollars, close to 60% of Russia's GDP.

If the economy is stable, the scale of the debt will be huge, but it will continue.

The crux of the problem is that the current international economic situation does not allow Russia to pay its debts slowly. The deteriorating domestic economy of Russia makes more and more people feel that the country can't afford it, so the capital has been fleeing since last year. The representative is Soros, who was urged by Simon to leave Russia in advance this time.

In order to solve the domestic economic problems, Yeltsin also launched a new Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, who is only 36 years old, under pressure in the first half of the year.

Unfortunately, nothing helps.

In the face of the continuous deterioration of the economic situation, just this morning, local time, Russia had to adopt an extreme strategy, giving up the protection of the exchange rate of the Russian ruble, and officially announced a 30% sharp depreciation.

In addition, the Moscow authorities announced that Sergei Kiriyenko, who has been in office for less than half a year, will be removed from the post of prime minister, and the former Prime Minister chernomyrkin will take up the post temporarily.

The result of Russia's allowing the ruble to depreciate is a wider financial turmoil.

With Russia's official announcement of the sharp devaluation of the ruble, the Asian stock market, which is close to the close of the day, generally experienced a sharp decline, followed by Europe, and then North America.

starving people fill the land.

"Before leaving, I had breakfast with Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana tyachenko. Tatyana once again expressed to me her hope that the boss would help the Russian economy. The other side also said that if the situation continues to deteriorate, Russia will have to launch strict capital control measures. In addition... "

Celia Miller pauses, looks at her boss's face across the table, and then says: "I don't know if my understanding is wrong. Tatyana seems to be suggesting that if Yeltsin's regime is loosened due to the worsening economy, some of the boss's arrangements will be affected and can't be smoothly carried out."

In the dining room.

Simon just nodded slightly after Celia's message.

A girl then came in and handed a copy of the material to her boss.

Simon took it, opened it, and said, "hand over a copy of the relevant materials to James. We'll meet in the morning to discuss it. Well, call Xiaoqing and let her come with us. In addition, please contact the White House for me and make a phone call today. "

Girl a quickly wrote down on the memo, confirmed that her boss had no other orders, and then turned away.

"You eat first."

When Simon saw Celia in a daze, he reminded her, then looked down at the progress of Russia's rescue negotiations with the IMF.

Like other Asian countries, Russia has been in contact with the IMF since last year and has been negotiating with the IMF for the past half year.

However, unlike South Korea, which completely gave up its economic sovereignty in the negotiations with the IMF, it was probably because the West had repeatedly cheated on it several times in the past few years. This time, Russia has grown strong. Even if the IMF is willing to give a total amount of US $50 billion in rescue loans, it is not willing to fully agree with the IMF's requirements.

So it's only now.

If history doesn't change, Simon knows what to follow.

Later, after allowing the ruble to depreciate, Russia closed the door. Like some Southeast Asian countries and regions, Russia implemented compulsory foreign exchange control, closed the bond market directly, and stabilized the domestic economy by means of almost planned economy.

Although Russia's international credit was greatly lost, it successfully saved its domestic economy on the premise of not giving up its economic sovereignty, and successfully waited for the economic recovery caused by a big bull in the international energy market after 2000.

In fact, one of the biggest impacts of the Asian financial crisis in 1997 was to wake up many countries.

In fact, the so-called free market theory in the west is fooling. Only a few countries and regions, such as South Korea, have been fooled by this theory for various reasons. Others have lifted the table and broken the rules. They have not only kept their economic sovereignty, but also caused far less serious consequences than the western mainstream public opinion.

Later, the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, the intervention of the U.S. government to rescue the market, let even more stupid people understand.

In a word: free market theory, who believe who stupid X.

This is actually like another set of western theories.

Western countries always associate their own prosperous economy with the system and instill in the world that the poor economy of your country and the poverty of the people are the causes of the system, and this has caused countless countries around the world to carry out active or passive institutional reforms one after another since the 1990s.

As a result, everyone saw it.

Because, to a large extent, the West has reversed the causal relationship between the two.

Most western countries, in fact, have completed the industrial revolution, economic accumulation to a certain extent, and gradually promoted the more and more open system level reform.

This probably should be the eastern sentence, Cang Shi and know etiquette.

When the material is rich enough, western people begin to pursue more and more individual rights.

Just one, the right to vote

The realization of the right to vote at the national level in western countries may be very early in many people's subconscious, but in fact it is not.

Take the United States as an example. It was not until 1920 that women had the right to vote, and then in 1965 that black people got the right to vote.

In fact, it was not until 1918 that the people realized the universal right to vote. Before that, only a few elites had the right to vote.

Before 1918, 1920, 1965, western countries had actually completed the industrial revolution and the primitive accumulation of modern society.

Then there will be rather slow institutional reform.

Then, reverse the cause and effect, and start to cheat all over the world.

In fact, in Simon's opinion, the saying "the economic foundation determines the superstructure" is the most reasonable. When the economy develops to a certain extent, the ordinary people will become more and more important in the social and economic structure, and naturally they will get more social discourse power.

Unless someone can completely lift the table and make the national economy go back thousands of miles, some trends can't be changed.

Or do you know the etiquette because of the real situation.

The key is the word "Zhi". It's not just etiquette.

This is a digression.

As for Russia, Simon's idea has been loosened for a time, but on the whole, he is still following the original idea.

A simple summary, four words, raise bandits self-respect.

This is a rather comprehensive general consideration, involving all aspects. The key is not to let the federal government and even the public pay too much attention to the westero system, which is growing large enough to easily affect the global economy.

There is no foreign invasion in a country, but internal strife.

Simon didn't want his business empire to be the object of a joint struggle between the federal government and the American people.

For this reason, the United States, which is now so powerful and arrogant, still needs to have some external enemies, at least competitors.

Russia is one.

Economically, Russia, whose GDP may be less than 300 billion US dollars this year, certainly has no potential to compete with the United States. However, Russia still has a strong military background, which is enough to pose a threat.

There must also be a threat.

In order to prevent this "threat" from vanishing because of the complete collapse of the economy, and even completely change the world development trend in Simon's memory, Simon must not allow Russia to collapse.

On Thursday, with the ups and downs of global stock markets, Simon was also in urgent contact with all parties, including wall street, including Washington, and even the Yeltsin authorities in Moscow.

In fact, it is in the interests of many parties to ensure that Russia will continue to maintain.

Like the U.S. military.

If Russia collapses further, there will be no need for NATO to exist. Who will sell tens of billions of arms to the US military industrial groups every year?

This is only one aspect.

Without Russia, the biggest variable is that Europe, which no longer needs the protection of the United States, is likely to be truly integrated and become the biggest competitor of the United States. This is something that the United States is absolutely unwilling to see.

Therefore, Simon took the initiative to contact all parties this time and asked them to put aside their preoccupation with short-term interests and take the initiative to help Russia.

It also prevents Russia from lifting the table.

If the ruble is allowed to depreciate, and if it is still within the rules, foreign exchange control and bond trading will be abolished, it will be breaking the rules and lifting the table.

Once Russia lifted the table, and western capital withdrew one after another because Moscow broke the rules. Another result was that they voluntarily gave up the continuous penetration of the Russian economy. Then, without the support of western capital, the strength of Russian domestic oligarchs was greatly damaged. As a result, some people successfully eliminated the oligarchs and regained control of the domestic economy.

In the final analysis, it is the result of the West giving up.

Simon is very fond of the memory of a statement about the relationship between big powers, fighting but not breaking.

Competition is for sure, but there's no need to tear it apart.

Torn, it seems that the opponent received a heavy blow in a short time, and suffered losses. Looking back, the biggest loss is himself. Because you are giving up the connection with each other, giving up the influence and control that you once had.

In response, it is almost impossible to add these things again.

Simon's personal influence is here. If he lobbies again, he will get twice the result with half the effort.

Therefore, the parties quickly reached a tacit agreement that afternoon.

Then, after a night of close consultations, the next day, the news became public that the Russian government reached a temporary rescue agreement with the IMF, and the IMF urgently provided $10 billion in loans to Russia to stabilize the domestic economic situation.

In exchange, the Russian government must promise not to let the ruble continue to depreciate.

The subtext is that Russia should ensure that it does not go further and break international financial rules.

If you only have this $10 billion in cash, it won't help.

Russia's current problems are similar to those in Southeast Asia. The key lies in the financial panic. People lost confidence in Russia's economy, so they ran out on one side, causing a stampede effect.

Therefore, in addition to direct financial support, confidence is more important.

Confidence, such an ethereal thing, is of little use now whether Yeltsin or Clinton jump out to make a statement. If Soros, who has been a powerful figure in the financial circle in the past year, jumps out to make a statement, it is more likely to backfire.

But, as it happens, Simon can.

With Russia's current GDP of less than 300 billion US dollars, the name of Simon westero is really enough to easily support the confidence of international capital in Russia.

Following the IMF's temporary rescue agreement with the Russian government, Raymond Smith, chairman and CEO of Verizon Telecom, suddenly visited Moscow and signed an investment agreement with Russia Telecom Investment Co., Ltd., Russia's largest Telecom Group, with a total value of 2.5 billion US dollars.

As for Russia Telecom Investment Corporation, this is also a project that Simon contacted several years ago.

The first time I met with Yeltsin's daughter in secret, the other party wanted to give this project to Simon as a favor. Simon didn't want it at that time, because it was a piece of fat that several oligarchs in Russia were fighting for. Even though Simon is confident of his strength, he doesn't bother to break his head with a group of local snakes.

Then, 25% of the shares of Russian Telecom were transferred, and botanin, the Russian oligarch supported by Soros, won it for us $2 billion.

Now, this is a combination of the westero system, Soros and Russia's local oligarchs. Simon did not take away the benefits of the latter two, but invested an additional $2.5 billion to acquire another 30% of the shares.

Another meaning of this deal is that the westero system has expressed its position and confidence in the Russian economy.