The efforts of Zhang Yanfang and others were destined to be in vain. On the night when the rumors spread, Li Jie published a post under his real name on the Jiangsu University forum, officially announcing his relationship with Su Mingyu and solemnly stating that it was Su Mingyu he was pursuing.
As soon as the post was published, dozens of people responded within a few minutes, and it became a hot topic on the forum half an hour later. The Soochow University forum is directly managed by the student union of the school. As the director of the External Relations Department, Li Jie wanted to pin it to the top.
A post only requires one sentence. Before he could call, the member of the student union responsible for managing the forum directly pinned the post to the top.
Compared with the petty quarrels on campus, Li Jie's main focus at this time is on the international financial market. The financial crisis sweeping the world is about to come. If the development of history is not unexpected, the fourth largest investment bank in the United States will
Mann Brothers will file for bankruptcy in a few days.
The financial crisis may turn into an opportunity, just like the protagonists in the Hollywood movie "The Big Short".
The movie "The Big Short" is adapted from a true story. It tells the story of three teams who shorted the market before the outbreak of the "subprime mortgage crisis" in the United States in 2008. They made a lot of money. Amidst the optimism in the real estate market, they discovered that
Aware of the potential crisis of "subprime mortgage packaged bonds", I dared to make big bets and finally seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for success.
The most thrilling thing in the film is not how they discovered this opportunity, but when they were waiting for the real estate crash, they were mentally tortured and on the verge of collapse. The pressure from customers, the accusations from the company's top management, and the distrust of team members all...
It brought huge pressure to them.
Unlike them, Li Jie knew long ago that this crisis was bound to come, and he only used his own money, so he did not need to face any doubts from the outside world.
The changes in the international market have also touched Bai Hongwen's sensitive nerves. Fortunately, he is now well prepared.
Since that conversation, Bai Hongwen began to pay special attention to Li Jie's every move. Li Jie's behavior of shorting the market was not deliberately concealed. Bai Hongwen naturally discovered Li Jie's move intentionally.
What is short selling? For example, you buy a stock, wait for its stock price to rise to make a profit, and then sell it. This is called long selling, and its counterpart is short selling. You first sell the chips in your hand at the market price, and wait for the stock futures to fall.
Buy again and earn the difference in price.
But Bai Hongwen did not dare to invest all his wealth in shorting the market like Li Jie. He was afraid because he was not the only one standing behind him. His fate was closely related to the Bai Group and related to the survival of thousands of families.
Being cautious has been Bai Hongwen's life-long code of conduct, but he still invested a sum of money to short the market. The amount was not large, just a small goal.
Even if all this money is lost in the end, it is not a big deal for Bai Hongwen. Bai Hongwen's main focus is now on the domestic market. With the outbreak of the financial crisis, China's economic growth has dropped significantly.
Exports showed negative growth, and a large number of small-scale enterprises closed down one after another.
There is a pessimistic mood permeating the entire market, and people are panicking. It is okay within the Bai Group, because Bai Hongwen gave up most of the overseas markets last year despite everyone's pressure.
At that time, the competitors were grinning crookedly. There were only so many cakes on the market. Suddenly, there was a strong competitor missing, but they were very happy.
The Bai Group's shrinking strategy has been a laughing stock in the industry for a long time, but now its competitors are too late to cry and are busy putting out fires everywhere.
On the other hand, the Bai Group responded early and now is firmly on the Diaoyutai. Bai Hongwen's prestige has reached a new peak during this period.
Everyone admired the chairman's vision, and with Bai Hongwen in charge, everyone seemed to have taken reassurance and did not panic at all. However, as time went by, things developed beyond everyone's expectations.
In the early morning of September 15th, before the work hours came, a group of people rushed into the Lehman Brothers Building impatiently. Some of them were in straight suits as usual, while some came to the company in casual clothes, but they all had one thing.
What they have in common is that they have two more things on hand, an empty backpack and a suitcase.
This 158-year-old company has officially come to an end. Lehman was once the fourth largest investment bank in the United States. It was founded in 1850. It has experienced the ups and downs of the American economy over the past century and has survived all crises safely. It is known as the immortal of Wall Street.
bird.
However, faced with US$613 billion in liabilities and a company that collapsed overnight, more than 20,000 employees had no choice but to leave. People's faces were solemn, and their eyes were full of disbelief and confusion.
Something worse happened on the same day. Bank of America issued a statement that day, announcing that it had acquired Merrill Lynch, the third largest investment bank in the United States, for a total price of nearly 50 billion U.S. dollars. Merrill Lynch is the third largest investment bank in the world.
The largest securities brokerage.
The fall of Lehman Brothers, the staggering collapse of Merrill Lynch, and the third and fourth largest investment banks in the United States suffered heavy losses on the same day, and the market panic reached its peak.
Bai Hongwen, who was always paying attention to this crisis, finally panicked. He could never have imagined that things would develop like this. If the same situation happened in China, where would he go and where would the Bai Group's future be?
Bai Hongwen couldn't sit still anymore. The plan he had made before seemed completely insufficient today. Bai Hongwen spent the whole afternoon thinking hard about how to deal with the coming financial tsunami. In desperation, he couldn't help but think of his adopted son.
, it was Li Jie's words that woke him up in the first place.
Bai Hongwen could tell on the spot that Li Jie had reservations during the conversation in the study room, and what happened afterwards was just as he expected. He saw everything Li Jie did after he went to college, and the Happy Farm project
, he knows everything about the Three Kingdoms Project.
Li Jie took out his cell phone and looked at it, the corners of his mouth raised slightly. As expected, it was Bai Hongwen calling. I'm afraid he never thought that the American government would sit back and watch Lehman Brothers go bankrupt. Not only Bai Hongwen, but also the entire
No one in the world would have thought of it.
"Hey, uncle, what's the matter?"
Bai Hongwen frowned. He thought it was impossible for Li Jie not to know why he made this call, but who asked him to ask for help, so he had to patiently whisper.
"Tiandong, do you have time tonight? I want to talk to you."
In fact, Bai Hongwen was in a hurry and sought medical treatment. In normal times, he would never have made this call.