Chapter 512: U.S. stock undertaker! (Please vote for me)

Author: Linjiangxian

Chapter 512: U.S. stock undertaker! (Please vote for me)

Bill Gates contacted Saltwater Fund through his foundation and directly injected one billion U.S. dollars. During the consultation, Ian Ball learned that the money was going to be used to short Enron. He almost knelt down in fright.

Got off.

Shorting Enron?

If nothing else, every one of Enron's employees peed was enough to flood the saltwater fund.

At that time, it truly deserves the name "salt water".

Ian Ball came to Lu Yiming in a hurry. After entering the villa, he hurriedly asked: "I just received a billion dollars from the foundation under the name of Bill Gates, saying it was to short Enron. Is this true?"

?”

Lu Yiming never told him about this matter!

In fact, Lu Yiming had been planning this matter for a long time, but he felt that now was not the best opportunity, so he did not tell Ian Ball. They happened to talk about this matter when they were playing golf.

, so Lu Yiming just took advantage of the situation and told the matter.

Lu Yiming poured a glass of rum for Ian Ball and said in a relaxed tone: "What? Are you scared?"

Ian Ball took the rum and took a sip. The faint sweetness mixed with the stimulation of alcohol lingered on the tip of his tongue.

Ian Ball didn't taste any sweetness from the drink, he only felt a bitter taste.

"That's the Enron Group. Can I not be afraid?"

To destroy the jobs of 20,000 people in one fell swoop, and to cause countless financial losses to the capital forces behind Enron, this is a huge feud.

Ian Ball wouldn't be surprised if one day while he was out for a morning jog, he was dragged to fill a pile of cement and sink to the bottom of the Hudson River.

His hands are still shaking now.

He really can't handle such a big scapegoat.

Lu Yiming sat in front of him with a normal expression and looked at him indifferently: "How much money have you made in the recent period?"

Ian Ball was stunned when he heard this, and then said in a low voice: "One hundred and twenty million US dollars."

If it had been in the past, he would never have been able to earn this amount of money in his lifetime.

But under Lu Yiming's guidance, he earned it effortlessly. Not only did he become rich overnight, but he also became famous. This kind of beautiful thing, both fame and fortune, was exactly what he had never wanted in the past!

Lu Yiming looked at Ian Ball coldly and asked: "It feels great to make money and become famous, right? If you think it's too hot, I don't mind finding someone else to do it."

Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Ian Ball shivered all over and almost couldn't hold the wine glass.

He thought of himself half a month ago, and then thought about his current situation.

After a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Lu, I know what I should do. Please give me another chance!"

As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. Ian Ball is unwilling to go back to the past life.

The feeling of gaining both fame and fortune really fascinated him.

He knew very well that now he was Lu Yiming's tool. Lu Yiming's words could make him rich and wealthy, but they could also make him fall into the abyss again.

The most painful thing in a person's life is not that the money has not been spent after the person dies, but that the money has been spent and the person has not died yet.

That would be worse than death.

Obviously, he is a greedy person, more afraid of poverty than afraid of death!

What's more, he may not necessarily die. The worst he can do is spend more money and hire a few more bodyguards. As long as he can become a billionaire and join the upper class, what's the point of taking some risks?

On the contrary, he missed this opportunity. If he wanted to climb up again, it would be as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Lu Yiming shook the wine glass in his hand with a smile on his face: "Do your best and don't let me down. Remember, behind you, there are also many big people paying attention to you."

Ian Ball finally cheered up, nodded seriously, and drank the rum in the glass in one gulp.

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Do you know why I invited you to drink rum?"

Ian Ball was stunned by Lu Yiming's out-of-the-box thinking. He thought about the history of rum carefully and said: "Rum originated in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. After it was brewed, it was deeply loved by pirates.

They love us. Do you mean that we should be like pirates, not afraid of wind and waves, always full of wildness and plunder?"

A smile of successful mischief appeared on Lu Yiming's face: "I have to say, your reading comprehension scores perfectly. But the main reason is that I happen to have a bottle of rum in my hand, that's all."

Ian Ball: “…”

Sure enough, Mr. Lu has an unknown evil taste.

Last time it was a dead rat.

This time it's rum.

A few days later, the US stock market, which was already in turmoil, once again made a shocking announcement.

On a very famous talk show, Ian Ball broke the news with a serious expression in front of a national audience: "In my recent survey of energy companies, I found that Enron's return on investment was significantly low.

, even when the company was at its peak, its return on investment was only 6%, while the industry's returns were typically three times that amount."

The host also pretended to be surprised: "Does this mean there is a problem with Enron?"

Ian Ball said righteously: "Yes, the problem is very serious. I recommend that the Department of Justice immediately investigate Enron's financial situation. Such a black sheep must not be allowed to continue to deceive innocent investors."

After the show was broadcast, the incident immediately caused an uproar!

After all, the Saltwater Fund’s target this time is the energy giant Enron!

Texas, the birthplace of American-style living, has always been known for its tough folk customs and abundant martial arts.

The headquarters of Enron is located here, and it is a well-known star enterprise in Texas.

In 1985, when this company was first established, it took advantage of the United States' policy of allowing energy privatization and non-bank enterprises to operate financial businesses, quickly monopolizing the energy supply in the United States, and introducing energy supply to the stock and futures trading markets.

It has grown rapidly from an unknown small company to an energy giant. Enron's stock has risen from less than 10 US dollars per share to 89 US dollars per share at an astonishing speed. Even technology companies such as Microsoft and Apple can only lament.

Ashamed of myself.

If you want to ask, did Enron rely on its advanced business philosophy or innovative products and services for its rapid rise?

Sorry, neither.

Enron's rapid rise and take-off depended on the indestructible network of relationships behind it.

The main backers behind it are the CIA, the Pentagon and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. If anyone thinks that doing business in the United States does not care about human relations and relationships, then you can donate your brain.

Enron CEO Kenneth Wray was a Pentagon official who worked for the U.S. Department of Defense during the Vietnam War.

Another important member of the company's board of directors is Franka Wiesner, whose father is the former head of the CIA. He himself is a fellow villager of two-term President Bush, and grew up with George W. Bush.

In addition, Franka Wiesner himself holds many hats and also serves as a board member of the American insurance giant AIG.

Interestingly, AIG was founded in Xia Guo, but it has been providing property insurance services to the US military. This business model sounds outrageous.

Robert, the former Treasury Secretary of the United States, serves as an independent director of Citigroup and is a close friend of Enron's Ray.

In addition, Enron formed an alliance with several related companies, and coincidentally, these companies were all doing business with the U.S. military.

The ignorant are fearless. The more you know about Enron's background, the more you understand what it means to have a tiger's butt that cannot be touched.

If you're in a hurry, it's not impossible to fly a missile with a missile.

At this time, Enron's headquarters.

Kenneth Ray watched the replay of the talk show on TV, smashed his tea cup, and yelled: "Shit, shit, shit, shit!"

The Enron Group is now having its pants taken off. It’s no wonder that he, the CEO, can still sit still. What Ian Ball is doing is not digging up his ancestral graves, it’s simply waving a shovel at his head.

Up for auction.

If he hadn't been concerned about the impact, Kenneth Ray would have wanted to find a team of gunmen and kill Ian Ball directly.

"Calm down."

Franka Wiesner smoked a cigar, blew out a beautiful smoke ring, and said calmly: "Now is not the time to vent your anger. If you want to take revenge, there will be many opportunities in the future. The most important thing at the moment is how

Let’s solve the problem.”

Kenneth Ray looked frustrated: "How to solve it? Can you conjure money, or can I conjure money?"

Enron's biggest problem now is poor management.

As for how an energy giant with an industry monopoly could manage poorly, how it came to have so many bad debts, and how its profits disappeared, only God knows.

However, this is not surprising at all. After all, a certain petrochemical company and a certain oil company on the other side of the ocean can also buy chandeliers worth 40 million each while losing money.

Don't ask, asking means you don't understand economics.

It's a good thing this mess didn't come to light. After all, Arthur Andersen, one of the world's five largest accounting firms, personally helped make the false accounts, so most people wouldn't see any problems.

But now someone has broken the sky. It's really useless for God to come down to earth.

Taking a deep breath, Franka Wiesner suggested: "If it really doesn't work, we can only give up part of it."

This sounds obscure, but in fact, the translation means that the money of small and medium-sized investors can be lost, but the money of the company's senior management and the interests of the big people behind it must be protected with all possible means.
To be continued...