Chapter 1454 Operation Overlord

   "Yes, this is the greatest political correctness!"

   "Daren, please believe me, this is an "overlord operation" representing justice, and all the top hedge funds on Wall Street have to land in Europe together to save the bad impression in the government's mind."

   "Vision Capital, as a member of Wall Street, should not be absent from such a grand event anyway."

   "I'll tell you a little more, George Soros, John Paulson, all of them are on the invite list this time. If you want to attend the "Braining Dinner" the night after tomorrow, think about it!"

  Xia Jingxing held the phone with a strange smile on his face.

   represents justice and acts as an overlord. It’s so ironic. Is it to destroy the German Third Reich, or to land in Normandy to send warmth to the French girl?

   After thinking for a while, Xia Jingxing agreed that Blankfein would go to the meeting and drop by to see what medicines were sold in Goldman Sachs' gourd.

   In fact, he has already guessed the real intention of Blankfein, I am afraid that he wants to use "detonating the European debt crisis and accelerating the return of international capital to the United States" to please the government.

   Goldman Sachs has a very bad reputation in the past two years, from the government, to investors and partners, to ordinary Americans, almost everyone shouts and beats.

   The dissatisfied voices from the middle and lower levels are ignored, but Goldman Sachs does not dare to completely ignore the dissatisfaction from the top.

  Thinking of this, Xia Jingxing slowly put down his mobile phone, tapped his fingers on the table lightly, and his head began to spin rapidly.

   Really makes people guess right, Goldman Sachs is the mastermind of planning the European debt crisis... the thug.

Perhaps at the beginning, it was simply to make some unscrupulous money to help the economically unqualified Greece blend into the euro zone and enjoy the happiness. Later, I saw the snowball of Greece’s national debt getting bigger and bigger. At the same time, the United States itself has caught up with the financial crisis and urgently needs the little brother in Europe. Pull the eldest brother, and then things will come naturally.

  Limited by his status and industry in his previous life, Xia Jingxing did not know exactly what role Wall Street played in the European debt crisis.

   But just now, Blankfein has made it very clear that the "USD VS EUR" battle is about to start, and the mercenaries from Wall Street are urgently needed to provide firepower support. The pay is generous, but the seats are limited.

  Xia Jingxing pinched his chin, the news brought by Blankfein was both good news and bad news.

  The good news is that Goldman Sachs has long planned to launch a general attack, and at the same time recruited a group of thugs, it is impossible to lose.

  The bad news is that there are too many institutions involved. There are too many wolves and few meat. It is almost impossible for Vision Capital to replicate the miracle of the previous two years.

  Should we leave Goldman Sachs alone?

  Xia Jingxing thought for a while, and soon gave up this unrealistic idea.

   Goldman Sachs has been deployed for so long. If Vision Capital secretly followed behind and disrupted Goldman Sachs’ deployment, Blankfein may have turned his face.

   At present, there are many enemies in his industry, and it is really not appropriate to make new enemies.

   Moreover, the old capitalist countries in Europe are not vegetarians. It is too hateful to go to let other people's blood. Envision Capital is mixed with the big army. Although it earns less, it is relatively safe and will not become a scapegoat.

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   Two days passed in a flash, and Xia Jingxing came to a villa in the Upper East Side by car.

   As soon as I entered the room, I saw a room full of old friends, including George Soros and John Paulson.

  Xia Jingxing greeted several people with a smile. When he glanced at a bald fat man sitting at the end of the table, the smile on his face suddenly stopped and his eyes changed a little.

   "Daren, get to know me, my name is Steven Cohen."

   The bald fat man got up with a smile and handed out his palm to Xia Jingxing.

Looking at the fat man who slowly walked in front of him, Xia Jingxing still had the same smile on his face, he shook his hand and said, "Mr. Cohen's name "King of Hedge Funds" is known to everyone on Wall Street, it's a pleasure to meet you ."

  Steven Cohen looked at Xia Jingxing with a smile, a pair of blue eyeballs gleaming under the golden glasses, as if to see through the latter's true heart.

  Xia Jingxing was also looking at the famous Great White Shark on Wall Street in front of him.

   Although he only met Cohen for the first time today, he has actually fought twice!

   The first time was in 2008. The stock index futures counterparty of Vision Capital was the Jewish Capital Group headed by Cohen.

   The second time was in 2009, when Cohen and Jewish Capital Group couldn’t afford to lose, and released the big news that Vision Capital made $30 billion in blood, inciting public opinion to attack Vision Capital.

   In the end, Xia Jingxing asked the blue-blooded nobles to take action to settle the matter.

   At the same time, Cohen got on fire and engaged in insider trading in stocks and was targeted by the SEC and the FBI.

Up to now, it has been a year since the incident. Although Cohen, who has been involved in lawsuits, has not received any substantial punishment, the allegations and investigations from the SEC have not stopped. At the same time, his ex-wife also backstabbed him at the end of last year and filed a complaint with the court. Indict him for fraud and insider trading.

   However, Cohen's backstage is very tough, and at the same time he is backed by the Jewish capital family, so he has never been brought down.

  Xia Jingxing paid more attention to this person, because he was very suspicious that this guy was trying to connect with others in an attempt to harm him.

   But these are not substantive evidence, just suspicion.

   But then again, who gave this guy a criminal record? Naturally became the biggest suspect!

   Blankfein had a faint smile on his face, quietly watching Xia Jingxing and Cohen talking.

   As the real king of Wall Street, Goldman Sachs naturally has his own exclusive news channel.

  Through this information, he easily grasped the grudge between Xia Jingxing and Cohen, and the Jewish capital.

   At this moment, the two who looked at Qiu Shen like the sea were talking as if nothing was happening, and they had to admire their self-restraint and tolerance.

   But that is the grudge between the two, and it has nothing to do with Goldman Sachs. It is their own business to beat each other to death in the future.

   He invited the two of them to come here today to discuss how to launch Operation Overlord to land in Europe.

   Blankfein clapped his hands and said, "Since everyone is here, let's start the meeting directly."

   Hearing Blankfein's words, Xia Jingxing and Cohen stopped talking and sat down.

   Cohen glanced at Xia Jingxing who was sitting opposite him, sneering in his heart.

   He never gave up the idea of ​​revenge, he just didn't dare to be alone.

   The last time he underestimated the energy behind Xia Jingxing and Vision Capital, his head was full of bags.

   He will not make this mistake again, this time he has found a strong ally.

Blankfein glanced at everyone, and then asked his subordinates to send a document to each of the hedge fund bosses present, saying: "This is the information that Goldman Sachs spent a lot of effort to collect and organize, it is more precious than gold, you can read it first. Look."

  Xia Jingxing quickly glanced at the documents in his hands, all of which were records of the Greek economy and debts, and the data was very detailed.

   Soros gently put down the document in his hand, spread his hand and said, "I seem to smell money."

   Blankfein said with a smile: "Yes, this is the taste of money!

  The euro is not much stronger than the pound in 1992.

   The debt problem of Greece and the other three countries in southern Europe is like a fishbone stuck in the throat of the EU, causing headaches for several finance ministers in Western and Northern Europe.

  If the EU is desperate, letting these countries withdraw from the EU will inevitably lead to an "earthquake" in the euro area and lead to a sharp depreciation of the euro in the short term.

  If the EU is to bail out, it will need to invest a lot of euros, which is bound to form a medium- and long-term depreciation trend of the euro.

   Therefore, the depreciation of the euro has become a matter of time. "

   Blankfein has a calm and confident smile on his face. The EU has been forced so badly, and the mere lack of talent is precisely from their Goldman Sachs handwriting.

   As the CEO of a financial giant who can call wind and rain in the world and can arbitrarily subvert the financial order of a country or even a continent, he enjoys the feeling of being in control of everything and standing at the top of the global pyramid.

  Others present were similar to Blankfein, treating Greece and the euro as one dish.

  John Paulson said with a big smile: "The last time I shorted European stocks, I was beaten and made difficult by the financial regulatory authorities of various countries.

   I would be excited to play against them again. "

  Steven Cohen smiled lightly, "I heard that the Paulson Fund made billions of dollars from Europe the year before last, and now European countries are shivering when they hear the names of their funds."

   "Is this a compliment to me?"

  Paulson raised his chin slightly and looked at Cohen, who nodded slightly, "I think this should be the biggest compliment to a hedge fund."

   Paulson listened to the music and praised it back: "The biggest compliment to a hedge fund should be to charge half of the LP's excess return like SAC Capital.

  Looking all over Wall Street, you are the only institution that dares to charge customers such high fees. "

Steven Cohen smiled and said, "In my opinion, GP and LP have an equal relationship, each taking half of the return, which is reasonable, isn't it? Paulson Fund can actually try to mention the cost, believe me, The effect will be beyond your expectations.”

   Paulson smiled and didn't answer, he wasn't easily fooled and lame.

The reason why SEC Capital dares to collect 50% of the excess profit share, plus an annual management fee of 3%, is based on its reputation in the industry for nearly 20 years. At the same time, the scale of SEC Capital has always been small. Control the scale of asset management.

   In 1992, when Seike Capital was first established, it had a scale of 2.5 billion US dollars. It has been nearly 20 years since its development. The scale of asset management has only increased five times, and it looks like it is just over 10 billion US dollars.

  Paulson is not particularly aware of Cohen's intentions for doing so, but it is expected to be related to the rate of return and fee sharing.

  Once the size of the fund is large, the rate of return will definitely decline, then the golden signboard will not work, and naturally no one will buy the sky-high fee of "3%+50%".

  Xia Jingxing looked at Cohen who was talking eloquently, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

   He does know the real reason why the other party does not have a large asset management scale. Once the fund scale is large, insider trading will be difficult to operate, and the exposure risk will increase exponentially.

   With this unique skill, Cohen traversed the U.S. stock market, earned tens of billions of dollars in net worth, and contributed an American drama called "Billions" and a novel called "Black Advantage" to the society.

  The domestic media often compares Mr. Xu and Cohen. The life stories of the two are very similar, and they are both financial predators.

   But Cohen was luckier than the helmsman Xu. Although both of them had the same solid evidence, Cohen finally spent a lot of money to avoid prison, reached a settlement with the SEC, and even transformed the company into a family office to continue to engage in finance.

   This may be the biggest difference between the two countries, one has a bottom line and the other has no bottom line.

   Blankfein waved his hand, "Alright, alright, dear friends, you can stop praising each other for a while.

  You look at Darren, who is more modest. He may be thinking about how to short the euro, a typical doer. "

   Hearing what Blankevan said, everyone turned their attention to Xia Jingxing.

  Xia Jingxing was originally a quiet spectator, but he did not expect that Blankfein would take the initiative to bring the topic to him.

   He hurriedly looked at Blankfein, who smiled at him and seemed to be expecting his wonderful speech.

  Xia Jingxing shook his head and laughed and said, "Mr. Blankfein, everyone here is seniors, and everyone's experience in the industry far exceeds mine. Actually, I would like to hear everyone's opinions."

  Blankefan seemed determined to want Xia Jingxing to express his stance publicly, and said reluctantly, "Daren, you are wrong, experience can't mean anything, this is Wall Street, a world where the strong are respected!"

  Xia Jingxing smiled, "Okay, then I will briefly explain my opinion."

   As soon as these words came out, everyone turned serious.

   In the face of the legendary record, industry veterans including Soros and Cohen cannot ignore Xia Jingxing's dazzling financial talents.

   "At present, most people have not paid special attention to the debt crisis in Greece. Most of the people here refer to ordinary Greeks and European residents, excluding the finance ministers of various countries.

   This powder keg is only one last fire away from being completely detonated!

  Before the official ignition, I think we should do some preparatory work, including establishing options and futures short positions in foreign exchange, and lobbying for the three major rating agencies. "

   Hearing this, everyone laughed, even Cohen gave Xia Jingxing one more look, he understood the American way of playing.

  Xia Jingxing continued: "First, we sold the euro in a centralized manner, and then the rating agency rated Greek government bonds as junk, BBB or even C.

  At this point, we just need to put the last nail on the coffin board.

  The European Central Bank will definitely seek help from the Fed, including but not limited to stopping interest rate hikes and pressure to investigate hedge funds that maliciously short the euro. "

   "Don't worry! The Fed and the government will not help the EU."

  Blank Sanskrit said in a firm tone, seeing that everyone's eyes turned to him, so he said a few more words: "Of course, the face project still needs to be done, after all, it is an ally!

  You don’t need to worry about this, the government and the Federal Reserve have their own Goldman Sachs to arrange for lobbyists. "

  Xia Jingxing had a smile on his face, but he was full of slander in his heart. This is because he has to set up an archway when he is a bitch, and then the EU has to read the old beauty.

   If you don't read our "protection of Europe", it's good. Then next year, the military expenditure of the garrison will increase a little bit, and it will be charged according to the first dutiful son.

  Under the heavy pressure of military, financial, technological and other hegemony, there is no one in Europe who can fight, so they can only take off their pants obediently and wait for the American uncle to come.

   Blankfein looked at the others and said, "Do you have any other opinions? If not, we will implement this "Overlord Operation" according to the framework proposed by Daeron."

"I have no opinion!"

"No comment!"

"agree!"

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   A group of people expressed their agreement with Xia Jingxing's suggestion.

   Blankfein nodded lightly, "Okay, that's it! In a month's time, we will launch a full-scale attack."

   (end of this chapter)