Chapter 752： under the tuyere

"Hitchhiker" is a horror story that takes place on the highway, and it is also very vivid to call it a deadly highway.

After this meeting.

Lehman added: "The first "Twilight" of "Twilight" will be directed by Kathryn Hardwicke, with Blake and Eva as producers. Regarding the behind-the-scenes personnel..."

Lyman looked at Catherine, "Ms. Catherine, you can pull someone yourself. In addition, find an actress named Kristen Stewart, she played the heroine of "Little Ghosts", I think the image is very good. Look again. An English actor named Robert Pattinson who played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

"OK."

Blake nodded, knowing what the focus of his production on this project was.

Of course, take good care of Eva and help her better familiarize herself with the production work.

Smart people should know.

As for the actors, the candidates Lehman personally ordered did not cross over, just talk about it directly.

A small meeting was held, and the efficiency was scary. The filming had not yet started, and the crew was half-built, just waiting for the location, props and costumes to be in place.

Director Catherine, who was sitting on the sidelines, was dumbfounded. She wanted to know how fast Firefly made the movie? This is too arrogant.

You know, when she cooperated with other studios, it was common to spend half a month just picking actors and not auditioning, forgetting that her male and female lead roles had been set, and she had not yet consulted her opinion.

Of course, the remaining character Katherine is still optional.

Although it's a little uncomfortable, whoever makes someone more senior than you is still an investor, and you should nod your head.

Finally, a list came out-

"The Hitchhiker, directed by Dave Myers, has a production budget of $3.5 million, the rest is to be determined.

"Twilight", directed by Kathryn Hardwick, has a production budget of 40 million.

Isabella - Tentatively named Kristen Stewart.

The male vampire Edward - tentatively named Robert Pattinson.

The rest is yet to be determined, but most of the cast members are newcomers. "

The standard was set, and the crew acted quickly.

Robert Pattinson has not yet entered Hollywood at this time. Even if he played a small supporting role in "Gble of Fire", he was mainly mixed in the UK, and he gained a little reputation among the new actors.

In the original time and space, Katherine would first confirm that Christine would play Isabella, and then take her to interview Edward one by one, to find the one with the most on-screen couples, and then choose Robert. In this life, don't be so troublesome.

Kristen Stewart doesn't have the qualifications of Robert Pattinson. Similar newcomers pop up every year in Hollywood, but few actresses really make it out. She is still lucky. When a child star debuts, the chances are better than There are many others, and this was selected by the "Twilight" crew.

Good looks, Christine is not lacking, but this person is a little troublesome - referring to his private life.

If she follows a pure character design, it is estimated that she will not be able to get along, but as long as she pays more attention to herself, the American people are very open to this aspect, and after comprehensive consideration, she is still selected.

In a "Mary Sue" fantasy drama, the appearance of the actors is very important, giving people a sense of substitution.

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Ben Bernanke is over 50 years old.

From academics to politics, he has experienced too much——

He received his BA from Harvard University in 1975 and his PhD from MIT in 1979.

He taught at Princeton University for 17 years and served as chair of the Department of Economics. Visiting Scholar of the Federal Reserve since 1987, served twice at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1987 to 1989, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 1989 to 1990, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1990 to 1991 and 1994 to 1996 Bank; appointed by Bush in 2002 to the Federal Reserve Board.

In June 2005, Bernanke served as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

On February 1, 2006, he succeeded Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Along the way, the position is higher and higher, and the work is more cautious.

He is a financial scientist with the same rich theory and experience. Even if Paulson pointed out the subprime mortgage problem, he really feels that it can be controlled, and inflation is stable, and some bad businesses can be cleared and eliminated.

After several weeks of meetings, discussions, discussions with major investment banks, raising the threshold for lending, interest rates, reducing market enthusiasm, and slowly implementing it, the pressure will soon be reduced.

On March 28, Bernanke issued a statement that the impact of subprime mortgages on the market had been contained.

The news was released, and the U.S. stock market continued to rise in April, hitting a record high.

But in these days of prosperity, few people have noticed another hidden danger, the real estate market problem.

Then there are financial markets generally dominated by two emotions - greed or fear.

In the case of rising house prices, the former is undoubtedly the main theme of the market.

Therefore, even if the major credit institutions are reminded by the Federal Reserve that other businesses have been tightened, the subprime loans related to real estate are still providing loans to borrowers with insufficient qualifications - anyway, the house prices have been rising, and if you can't repay Forfeit the house to pay off the debt...

Not to mention the fact that capitalist society has a lot of harassment.

Just borrowing is not a problem. A small number of people can't pay it back. The big deal is bad debt. As long as the overall economic situation keeps rising, it's not a problem.

But major credit institutions and investment banks have also turned subprime loans into financial products.

Specifically, those subprime loans have long been packaged and sold by financial institutions. This process is legal and reasonable, and the old man is innocent.

The principle is roughly as follows: if I have a loan of 1 million, the default rate is 0.1%, and the interest for ten years of income is 200,000, then I will now package this loan and sell it, only 1.05 million in cash.

Then institution B pondered it for a while, and after calculating that the transaction was profitable, it would buy the loan - in A's view, his 1 million loan immediately obtained 1.05 million in cash, in B's view , he got an asset with low risk and good returns in the long run, and everyone was satisfied.

But Agency B's plan didn't stop there. He "securitized" the loan -- that is, divided the loan into 10,000 copies, and anyone could buy a securitized product of the loan, Then wait for the return.

As a result, subprime loans after securitization entered the market and were held by more people - and the bankers' creativity was not limited to this. Credit-rated loans are "securitized" at the same time and then mixed together to spread the risk - which is scientific in some ways.

Because it is very unlikely that all regions and all people will default at the same time.

As a result, these assets were bought back by financial institutions and individual investors around the world, which is one of the main reasons why the subprime mortgage crisis that broke out in the United States caused a financial crisis in the world.

In other words, the real estate sector has been artificially ignored by the Federal Reserve for the hidden dangers of subprime mortgages, because real estate has been rising. As long as it does not fall, the asset loan business around real estate will always be profitable.

Profitable things do not need to be reminded by others. Everyone is maximizing the pursuit of this process.

The number of new homes in the United States climbed to about 2.3 million units in January 2006 and 2.65 million units in 2007.

What if there are too many houses and no one lives there?

In response to this, credit institutions lowered the threshold for housing loans again, allowing more poor people to join the game.

The so-called regulation, capitalists and Wall Street elites have their own ideas, what can the Fed do?

Bernanke probably did not expect these people to play so well.

In the case of further prosperity in the financial market, the Firefly Building, Lehmann is discussing things with Joseph.

"How is it that I asked you to investigate?"

"It's not been doing well In fact, it would have ended in the 90s if Avi Allard had not restructured the board after taking over."

Joseph answered briefly.

And what they were discussing was naturally the Marvel that Ryman was always concerned about.

The company went bankrupt several times, and the cabbage price was sold to DC, which was rejected twice as long as Warner could cover the debt.

In 1991, another vampire Perelman who did not attach importance to development and just wanted to make money took over Marvel and operated Marvel to go public.

In order to raise the stock price after the listing, Marvel continued to acquire, buying and buying all the way to release good news. Finally, Perelman cashed out and left, and Marvel went bankrupt again, until Avi Allard took over, which stabilized the situation.

However, because of the crazy acquisitions in the past few years, Marvel has put on a lot of non-performing assets and debts. Even if the superheroes are adapted, they are still struggling.

What's more, it's harder for banks to get loans these days, oh, except for real estate.