Chapter 560 Above the Clouds

  It's hard to understand why men are interested in black widows like Madame Zabini. Pomona’s understanding is that they want to hit luck and conquer a goal that no one else can conquer.

  But maybe that kind of women are like cigarettes. They know whether they are harmful to their health or they can’t put it down. They just can’t give up.

  There is a famous saying on Wall Street that the market will do everything possible to prove that the vast majority of people are wrong.

  At the same time, there is a famous saying, never short a sluggish market.

  Union Pacific Railroad's stock had been rising before the San Francisco earthquake. Jesse made a total of 5,000 shares. He was dancing with his new girlfriend in a ballroom in Atlantic City.

  For Jesse, stock market speculation is the same as gambling. When most people are long, he is short, how stupid.

  However, the shares of Union Pacific Railroad plummeted after the earthquake, and he became a big winner.

  If he can be less greedy, he won’t lose 40,000 dollars if he knows that he is good. After the panic plunge, Pacific Railroad's stock rebounded slightly, and the government will not let the railroad company go bankrupt when it is in urgent need of capacity for disaster relief.

  Jesse must not know that there will be a big earthquake tomorrow, if he knew then he would be a prophet like Grindelwald and Sybil.

  The world of geniuses and lunatics cannot be thought of according to the logic of normal people. The good times brought about by speculation have kept Jesse out of control. He buys mansions all over the world and raises women in mansions. He shamelessly promoted everywhere, not caring about his image in the eyes of outsiders. In the evening, he would drive his Rolls-Royce car for a drive in Manhattan, and let her take a ride if he saw a woman.

  Although his actions are envious of many men, why not? Jesse has mansions, beautiful women, swimming pools, limousines, and hordes of servants. With everything that a poor boy dreams of a rich man, he has achieved success in the eyes of the world.

  But he is crazy. A normal person has the ability to distinguish right from wrong. He doesn't. Maybe only a failed marriage can make him feel frustrated. At that time, he was a little normal.

  Stock market gambling is not like horse racing. It does not need to rely on "flesh and blood". Everyone's behavior is based on numbers. The stock market is one of the most difficult places to succeed. Many people and human nature are involved here. This is also difficult to show their strengths, because it is very difficult to control and overcome human nature.

  Betting on horses can cause accidents, such as horses eating forage mixed with laxatives, or jockeys being bought. In the stock market, everyone is his own rider, and he needs to ride the horse that eager to run wild in his heart. Jesse's keen sense of numbers has made him a fortune. When everyone is bullish, he is bearish. If a person is too bullish The times will be overwhelmed by the times, even if it turns out that Jesse is right.

  He was rich, but he was criticized by newspapers and magazines.

He has many women, but they don’t really love him. In the first marriage, his wife refused to help him when he needed help the most. In the second marriage, the woman sold them together at a low price without mercy. The mansion I lived in was just like everything they had ever had between them that was not worthy of nostalgia. "Money" was her only purpose for approaching him and marrying him.

  The man who was as taciturn as catnip in the eyes of New York women was always attracted to bad women. The third marriage was simply with the poisonous spider.

  Just like Jesse himself said, there is a problem with his thinking, but unfortunately no one can help him.

  The crowd is like a sea of ​​people, converging into a vast ocean. Jesse likes fishing very much. He can find peace while fishing. At this time, what he cares about is no longer income. "Peace" is the only thing he needs.

This is incomprehensible to most people. In addition to overproduction, there is also an excess of information, especially in places like financial centers. There are many rumors when they are well informed. This is what Jesse hates most. "Insider information".

  Information excess does not mean that you read too much, but that you continue to be bombarded by information and try to classify all the information, so it will be difficult for you to make decisions and take actions.

Harry was bombarded by Severus’ memory information. First he was the last Horcrux, and then he hated Snape who always loved his mother. If one person gets too much information, it will cause some A form of paralysis.

  If everyone around you is procrastinating or anxiously busy with various non-important things, you will be easily affected by this emotion.

There is a large amount of unscreened information in the outside world. There is very little information that is really useful to a person. It is exhausting to sort and classify, not to mention that clear judgments must be made. There is too much information. Existence, on the contrary, makes people unable to obtain the effective information they need efficiently and quickly, so they always feel that the information they have is not enough.

  Information excess and excess information can easily make people confuse the boundary between information and knowledge, and mistakenly think that if you master information, you will master knowledge.

Jesse was lost in this flow of information. He was lost, but no one could guide him, including his wife, so in the end he was in madness and forgot that he still had the trust money, because he was taken by the landlord for not renting money. He drove out, and finally pulled the trigger in the bathroom of a hotel, ending his life.

  Jesse’s position in his time was like Buffett now. He set up the headquarters of the financial company in Omaha instead of a prosperous first-tier city. In addition to being the birthplace of Buffett, it was also because Omaha was laid back and comfortable. It is difficult for people who live in the bustling and hustle and bustle to understand. The state of peace and tranquility is very suitable for calming down and thinking. It can make people mentally upset all the time.

Crazy people don’t always talk nonsense, especially high IQ lunatics. On the contrary, what he said is very logical. One patient said, "Time does not pass, it is us that passes." At first sight of literature and art, he broke common sense. It makes sense, and it is explained by quantum physics, but he is a mental patient, it's just that normal people use rational thinking to understand the crazy things he said.

  Grindelwald is so crazy, trying to rule over a billion Muggles with a few wizards, but what he said is so reasonable. Whose interests are protected by the international secrecy law?

  The situation in the United States is different from other wizarding worlds. The Wizarding Ministry of Magic is located in the Woolworth Building on Broadway. After the building is completed, it becomes a building shared by Maji and wizards.

  The British Ministry of Magic is under the Whitehall, like the shadow of the Muggle government. Grindelwald's specious speech at the US Ministry of Magic spreads quickly, which is the terrifying aspect of the old madman.

  Pomona has never thought about the issue of Grindelwald’s “golden fee”. Although language has provocative power, its role is limited. Only the money in the pocket can really make people feel the feeling of "implemented".

   Before the stock market crash on Black Thursday in 1929, everything looked good in the United States. From summer to autumn, the economy continued to rise. People called this time a good time.

More and more funds were injected into Wall Street. In the past, it was mainly from Europe. However, after the Labor Party came to power, Britain began to implement protection policies. It was only at that time that money still poured into Wall Street from all corners of the United States, and the stock market became a country like a horse betting. As a recreational place, entering the stock market is just the price of a newspaper. An army of small gamblers put 100, 200, and 300 dollars in deposits into the stock market.

  Jesse is not blindly optimistic. He predicts that there will be an unprecedented bear market in the US stock market and the stock market index will plummet.

The first signal came out in September 1929 that an unprecedented Hartley financial fraud occurred in the United Kingdom. When the news came to the United States, the Bank of England did nothing, but Jesse’s "spy" came to the news that the Bank of England would raise interest rates. .

  Later, on October 24, the first round of the stock market bombed the stock market to pieces. On October 29, the second bomb exploded the remaining people to death. Every day, people committed suicide by jumping off the building.

  Most of the rich have been successful in the past, so once they suffer huge losses, they are sometimes at a loss. They have never tried to survive in adversity at low tide. In October and November of 1929 alone, there were 219 suicide incidents reported in New York City. By 1932, the suicide rate in the United States reached its peak, with 17.4 suicides per 100,000 people. After that, the proportion gradually declined. They didn't want to die, but they were crazy and were put in a mental hospital.

  People are always like this, only believing what they see with their own eyes, no matter what Harry says Voldemort is coming back, as long as the Ministry of Magic and the Daily Prophet don’t admit it, no one really believes what he said.

   In 1960, a professor of psychology at Stanford University in the United States designed a famous experiment on "delayed gratification", which mainly tested whether a group of 4-year-old children could persist in eating the candy in front of them after 20 minutes. The experiment uses the self-control, judgment, and self-confidence that children showed when they were young to predict their growing personality. After 12 years of tracking, children with different performances have different personality performances when they grow up. All children who have survived 20 minutes have strong self-control ability, strong ability to deal with problems, and are willing to accept challenges; while children who choose to eat candy right away are hesitant, suspicious, neurotic and unable to withstand the test of frustration. Self-esteem is vulnerable, etc. This kind of self-control, judgment, and self-confidence experiment from childhood can predict the effect of his personality when he grows up, which is called the candy effect.

Everyone will face many temptations in their life. When facing temptations, the best way to resist them is to divert attention. Just like some children cover their eyes, play hide-and-seek or sing and dance, their desire for temptation will be weakened. Or temporarily forget it.

  To be good at resisting temptation, not to be fooled by immediate benefits, and don’t expect self-control to automatically increase with age, that requires conscious exercise.

  Now, Severus needs exercise, he is about to lose control.

After experiencing the Battle of Hogwarts, his mood has gone through ups and downs, and he still has enough money. He didn't ask her for help to really go out and spend a lot of money, but he didn't want to be "lost" like Jesse. Up.

  He is really an idiot who refuses to honestly say what he thinks in his heart.

When Severus went to the house elves to fetch silver bullets, she was meditating in the greenhouse. It was still snowing in Scotland. It was quiet here, and even the sound of falling snow could be heard, and occasionally there were small children's troubles. Oh, what a beautiful place Hogwarts is, no wonder so many people want to stay here.

  (End of this chapter)