Chapter 1016 (1/2)
Washington, USA.
It's Tuesday, August 27.
In the private area of the president's family in the east wing of the White House, Bill Clinton, who has quietly shared a room with Hillary Clinton, got up early this morning and sat down in the dining room. At the same time, he could not help but open the latest issue of Forbes magazine just published yesterday.
It's not just the 1.5 trillion dollar personal wealth of the young man at the top of the list that is astonishing, but the whole list is enough to cause too many sighs.
The top ten are the most typical.
First place: Simon westero, 1.5 trillion dollars.
Second place: Bill Gates, 97.1 billion dollars.
Third place: Claire Gaines, 29.5 billion dollars.
Fourth place: Neil Brantley, 29.5 billion dollars.
Fifth place: Paul Allen, 18.6 billion dollars.
Number six: Tim Berners Lee, 17.8 billion dollars.
Seventh place: Jeff Bezos, 17.8 billion dollars.
Eighth place: Carol Bartz, 17.8 billion dollars.
Number nine: Larry Ellison, 15.5 billion dollars.
Fourth place: Warren Buffett, 13.9 billion dollars.
Among the top ten richest people in the United States, the first one is really a strange monster. Not to mention the others, all of them have entered the $10 billion range.
That's not the point.
The most important point is that most of the ten super rich, except Warren Buffett, come from the new technology field which has been rising rapidly in recent years. Moreover, this tendency is more prominent in the list of 400 people.
Once again, it gives people a sense of a new era coming suddenly.
At 7:30 after breakfast, Justice Secretary Janet Reno of the Clinton administration rushed to the White House to have a final discussion with the president about the 9:00 press conference this morning.
Yesterday's ”Forbes” list was released. In the face of the hot discussion in the media, something brewing in the White House has come to the best start time.
Because it was also yesterday, August 26, the four-day Democratic National Congress was officially held in Atlanta, Georgia, the host of this session. It is also a ride on the wind of the just concluded Olympic Games. As a serving president, Clinton does not need to attend the whole process, but two days later, on August 29, he will also go to deliver a speech in person and formally accept the nomination of the party .
Then came the Republican National Convention, from August 30 to September 3.
These eight days can be regarded as the complete end of the preliminary stage of the presidential election. After the announcement of the Republican nomination on September 3, the official general election sprint will be fully opened.
Although many things will come to an end in these days, basically there will be no major changes, but the struggle will never stop.
Now that we have determined the strategy of actively attacking the Westeros system in order to avoid falling into a passive position, after intensive preparations these days, taking advantage of the release of the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in the United States, today is also a very suitable time to formally declare war. Only in this way can we have the best effect of public opinion and leave the Republican Party speechless.
After more than half an hour of discussion, Janet Reynolds left in a hurry.
Nine o'clock in the morning.
The U.S. Department of justice held a press conference presided over by Attorney General Janet Renault, and officially announced that the Department of justice would once again launch an investigation into a series of suspected monopoly behaviors of igritte because igritte did not fulfill the agreement reached with the U.S. Department of justice at the end of 1994.
The focus of this investigation is on the illegal behaviors between igrit software and network departments, such as using market advantages to force users to use their own Internet software and cloud computing services, unfair competition brought about by IE browser monopoly, and using market advantages to maliciously suppress competitors.
Although there is a time difference of three hours between the east coast and the west coast, after the press conference held by the Ministry of justice, the person in charge of the east coast division of igritte made a response for the first time. He regretted the investigation of igritte by the Ministry of justice, stressed that igritte is a company that strictly abides by the market rules, and totally denied all accusations of igritte at the press conference held by the Ministry of justice Control.
Igrit portal also released more detailed responses and self defense on its website.
From the launch of Verizon Telecom to the investigation launched by the Department of justice, there was only a 10 day interval, which was enough time for those who should know to know the plan of the White House. Therefore, the ordinary people felt quite sudden about the press conference, but it was no secret whether it was Washington, wall street or silicon valley.
In view of this news incident, all people are more concerned about the possible impact of this investigation on the Nasdaq stock market.
Including the White House. As the initiator of evil,
is more concerned than Clinton. Once the investigation has accidentally broken the technology bubble and triggered a stock market crash, he will not be too good in the next few months. Even if the polls are far ahead of the time, it will be impossible to lose the reelection.Fortunately, in the early risk assessment, the White House staff believed that it would not have too obvious impact on NASDAQ if they only started the investigation and did not take any substantive action for the time being. Moreover, the announcement of the investigation on the second day after Forbes magazine released the new annual US 400 rich list was also based on this consideration.
The list of the 400 richest people in the United States will definitely have a positive impact on the technology stock market. The 2.9% rise of the NASDAQ index after the list was released yesterday is a clear evidence. Therefore, it can largely offset the negative effects brought about by the survey.
The nine o'clock news conference lasted 20 minutes, followed by the opening of the U.S. stock market at 9:30 a.m.
It's a straight down curve.
In just five minutes, the NASDAQ index fell 1.9% from 5263 to 5134.
At this time, the total market value of all enterprises in the Nasdaq market has reached US $6 trillion, with a 1.9% decline. It seems not much, but it also means that in just five minutes, more than US $100 billion of stock wealth has come to nothing.
On the other hand, as the most direct target, the stock price of igrit will inevitably be affected more seriously than the general market after the opening. However, in five minutes, compared with the 1.9% decline of the general market, the decline of igrit's share price is only 2.6%. Even if it means that the book wealth of nearly 10 billion US dollars disappears quickly, it is completely controllable.
In the close attention of all people, after a short dip, the NASDAQ index began to rebound again, and the stock price of igrit also rebounded. Moreover, the imagined selling tide did not appear. So after half an hour, 30 minutes of opening, the NASDAQ index returned to more than 5200 points, and the decline of igrit stock price returned to within the 2% range. Countless people were relieved.
Then there was the Republican fight back.