Chapter 183 The economic crisis is more terrible than the monster
The impact of this disaster on January 1 is obviously far more serious than everyone expected.
After two days of hard work on the 2nd and 3rd, the mutant monsters in various cities have been basically cleared, and the monster's corpses and the remains of the dead have also begun to be contained by the government in an orderly manner. Other chaos and turmoil have gradually returned to peace under the suppression of the army's iron fist.
Everything seems to be moving in a good direction.
But the crisis was suddenly detonated from another direction...
The first thing that collapsed was the financial circle.
On the morning of January 4, as soon as the stock market opened, less than twenty minutes after the Spring Festival holiday, it saw an unprecedented full limit down in history!
Whether it is the unlucky guys who were already green all the way, or the military industry stocks, technology stocks, and industrial stocks that were rising strongly before the New Year, they were all wiped out.
Countless investors are panic selling their stocks, but the more they fall, the more they sell, the more they sell...
For a moment, the financial market was wailing.
Even those giant crocodiles were still fucked with heartache in the face of the huge wealth that evaporated instantly.
After all, this is not the plan of cutting leeks they have on weekdays, but the stock game collapsed from the root.
The tragedy of the stock market is just the appetizer of today's nightmare.
Next, the prices of the affected cities and surrounding areas, which were originally held by the government's forced actions with administrative power and official reserves, suddenly collapsed rapidly under the manipulation and induced by some black hands and the already-existing imbalance of supply and demand.
The prices of all basic livelihood commodities, including grain, vegetables, oil and salt, rise almost once an hour, and many commodities doubled in half a day.
What's even more terrifying is that even so, you can't buy it!
The madness that suppliers are reluctant to sell is hard to describe as a simple shortage of materials or hoarding goods.
Instead, it was more like a determination to prepare for the end of the world, holding these "lifelines" tightly and refusing to take them out.
With the discontinuation of upstream supply and the reverse retraction of large quantities of goods, the shelves of major supermarkets and shopping malls have gradually become blank, and even continuous vacancy.
After the people who were originally immersed in the deaths of relatives and friends discovered this situation, new chaos broke out irresistible!
The sudden sudden disaster has already planted the seeds of chaos and panic in the hearts of most survivors, and the remarks of the end of the world have become increasingly rampant in the past two days.
Therefore, in the face of increasingly empty shelves, the irresistible wave of buying and rumors spread rapidly, and it even quickly developed to the point where the store was rushing for buying and selling without asking about prices or things.
The most direct consequence is that the people who have lost their minds will snatch out all the daily necessities that were not short of them, and even the toilet paper is gone!
It's a tragedy on earth...
Next, with the soaring prices and the lack of commodities, the people felt that the currency in their hands seemed to have lost its original meaning and power.
The financial game that once made everyone crazy has become even more disgusted by people and dogs.
The simple values of the people have quickly formed a new consensus in the face of reality
——Everything else is false, only if it is actually something that can be held in your hands and eaten in your mouth is real!
For the modern economic system, this is undoubtedly a fatal blow, and it will expand the chain reaction to more and more industries, and will bring about the collapse of prices of other systems.
For example, housing prices, commodity prices, etc. in the affected areas.
When the government found something was wrong and wanted to take action to control the problem, countless banks had already lined up with money withdrawals that were out of sight... The most terrifying bank run broke out!
Faced with the crazy withdrawal of savings, the central bank directly issued a red warning to the Presidential Office. Then, the exhausted president held another press conference, calling on the public to be rational.
But this is obviously useless, and it even allowed more people to join the army of withdrawals.
However, in one day, there were 16 small local private banks across the country, and they announced that they would suspend their business because the cash reserves in hand could not meet the exchange of depositors.
Although the remaining large and medium-sized banks and state banks can still hold on for the time being with their strong size, some small outlets inevitably have signs of suspending withdrawal business.
For a time, shopping malls closed in many cities, supermarkets closed, and streets were full of "spectacular" mirrors of people who went crazy to smash doors to withdraw money...
"This time, the United States' economy has to retreat at least ten years."
Looking at the many shops that were closing early along the way, Alvin was riding a bicycle to pull Sydney back from school, he couldn't help but shake his head silently.
"If the government responds to the disadvantage, or if the sudden outbreak of a sudden change of the same scale breaks up, causing the crisis to continue to ferment. It is estimated that if the monsters come, the "apocalypse" of many people will have arrived..."
This is not a random guess without any basis. It not only has the support of secret data from the county government, but also the tragedy he saw with his own eyes.
In fact, just ten minutes ago, Alvin witnessed a guy jumping from a high building in the distance with his extraordinary visual ability.
As for similar situations, he discovered five times today...
For this reason, he had to pull Sydney to spare several more distances.
However, although some unlucky guys who ended everything with death appeared, according to various information, Ryan City was actually the one with less damage in many affected cities.
Although it is relatively close to Shanghe City, the hardest-hit area, and it is also affected by the "4th-day big jump", because Ryan City's economy has long reached a state of failure, even those gamblers and many companies who invest heavily in finance have to lose their underwear, the losses of the bottom group are not very large.
After all, you go to the bank to withdraw money and go to the mall to sweep goods crazy... Then you have to have money to withdraw money first!
Most families that are most likely to be affected now basically rely on government subsidies to survive, which is approximately the same as "profits that can be guaranteed by drought and flood."
In addition, in order to maintain stability, the Ryan Municipal Government specially requested a large number of daily necessities from the county a while ago, so there is no major turmoil in Ryan for the time being.
In fact, the areas where El Devon County suffered the most severe impact from this round should be the county government Changhe City in addition to Shanghe City itself.
There is no way, who makes Changhe City rich and prosperous, and at the same time is the most important financial center in Hedong?
If there is a problem with the economy, it is naturally the first to be unlucky. Even the housing prices, which have been extremely strong for more than 50 years, plummeted.
This is mainly because many companies are selling their fixed assets to make up for the damage caused by the financial collapse.
This has instead become a good opportunity for the psychic church to expand secretly and extend its tentacles to Changhe City.
Don’t forget that in addition to being a religious organization, the psychic church is also an entertainment industry group with complete systems and large scale.
Bars, amusement halls, cinemas, dance halls, chess and card rooms, tea rooms, board games bars, baths, hotels... These shops that were sold cheaply due to the crisis were secretly eaten by the psychic church, and then based on this, they tried to spread their influence to this city.
In this process, a deputy county head who had completely worshipped under the power of the great god "Ye", provided great help, helping the psychic church quickly gained a foothold in the upper-level circle of powerful people in Changhe City.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Alvin, the boss who is shaking his hands. He is actually more concerned about a small issue at the moment.
——How should I arrange a holiday that has suddenly begun?