Chapter 517 Undercurrents are raging (2)

   "What the **** is this guy going to do? Does he really think he can affect the economy of a country?"

Not long after Zhong Shi’s interview ended, Soros sat in his executive chair and thought over and over again. He didn’t think Zhong Shi was aimless, but this time the scope of what this young man said was too broad, and he targeted The target is the US economy, God, doesn't he know how big the US economy is?

  Compared with the president's economic advisers or the giants of the Federal Reserve, Zhongshi's influence is undoubtedly pitifully small. If these words come from the mouths of the former, the giants of Wall Street may stop and consider for a moment, and then continue to do their own way. But from a person like Zhongshi, most traders give Zhongshi a part of their attention, and Wall Street giants may directly choose to ignore it.

Although compared with seven or eight years ago, he is just an "outdated" fund manager, and he no longer has the momentum to make big promises and call the wind in 1997 and 1998, and compared to his peak period, his fund management in these years The scale of the company has not increased significantly, and remains at around 20 billion US dollars, but his personal net worth has rapidly inflated like a balloon, and he has been the richest man in the financial world for several consecutive years. But now there are billions and tens of billions of dollars in hedge funds in the entire fund industry, so his words can no longer influence the market.

Even so, Soros has never left the front line of the market. Although the era of macro hedge funds has passed, it is basically impossible to impact a country's currency system, but he is very clear that as long as a country Even if the central bank has a slight deviation in policy, macro hedge funds can still gain huge profits by capturing this opportunity.

   More importantly, Soros has been brooding over the failures in the Hong Kong, Russia and Japanese markets, which is almost the Waterloo of his career. Compared with the unshakable nature of the other two markets, Zhong Shi in Hong Kong is obviously easier to deal with. It's just that he endured it for a full eight years before waiting for the other party's reappearance. Therefore, after hearing the news about Zhong Shi, he My first reaction was that it was time for revenge.

  Just after listening to the other party's interview carefully, he fell into a deep surprise. Although he has not seen him for a few years, he has no doubts that the other party will grow very rapidly, but the other party even boasted that his wealth has reached the top level in the world. After some "specious" comments, he was slightly disappointed while being shocked.

   "Paulson, what do you think of Zhongshi's remarks?"

   Soon, Soros made a call. During the call, he pretended to be relaxed and said to the other party. After connecting the phone, there were bursts of low roaring sounds in his ears, which surprised Soros, but he realized the next moment that the other party should be on the plane, otherwise this familiar sound would not have appeared. noise.

This Paulson is not John Paulson, but Henry Paulson, the CEO of Goodman Company. As the CEO of Goodman Company, he is famous for his excellent operational ability and flexible strategy adjustment. He brought a century-old company to the position of the largest investment bank on Wall Street, and became a star among Wall Street star executives for a while.

   At this time, Paulson was indeed on a private jet, just flying back to New York from Washington, DC. In Washington, he just had a face-to-face meeting with the President, who wants to nominate him for the position of Treasury Secretary, but is still in the contact stage, and even after the public announcement, the nomination still needs Congressional approval. Compared with Goodman's annual salary of tens of millions of dollars, the salary of the US Treasury Secretary is undoubtedly quite shabby. But Paulson didn't care about these. He believed that the opportunity to serve the country had come, and even the sacrifice of salary was worth it. Therefore, after the initial fiscal policy outline with the president, he readily accepted the job. Invited, flying to New York with joy, ready to hand over everything here as soon as possible.

When Soros's call was connected, Paulson was taken aback for a moment, and then asked his subordinates to turn on the TV on the plane, tune out the program just now, and after watching it carefully, he was still talking to the microphone. Soros, who was waiting patiently, said, "George, do you have any questions?"

   Paulson rose from the position of chief financial officer. This is a compromise measure within Goodman to balance the investment banking department and the sales and trading department. Although Paulson was born as a CFO, it does not mean that Paulson does not understand the internal operations of investment banks. In fact, among all investment banks today, the sale of real estate mortgage securities is one of the most profitable transactions, even the most profitable transaction. One, Paulson knows it all too well.

So when Zhong Shi mentioned real estate in his words, Paulson was thrilled. He was well aware of the huge size of Goodman's company in the CDO market. To the point of no return.

However, this idea just flashed in Paulson's mind, and he completely threw this "unrealistic" idea out of his mind, because it is obviously impossible for all this to happen, not to mention that these assets are now They are all high-quality bonds with a rating of 3A. In other words, Goodman's internal risk control is very strict, and they will never be put in such a dangerous situation.

   But Paulson needs more professional advice, especially a fund industry tycoon like Soros.

"No, no, no, there's no problem!" Soros quickly denied, and after choosing his words for a while, he said slowly, "Henry, don't you think this kid is too humble? Openly challenging the American economy, this It's really too arrogant. Why don't you and I join forces, just like what we did a few years ago, and teach him a hard lesson, what do you think?"

"Hmph, let's talk about this!" If there was no trip to Washington, Paulson might still be tempted by Soros's suggestion. After all, the other party exposed his position. Now that he was about to leave, he naturally didn't want to cause these messy things again, so after tactfully refusing, he hung up the phone.

   Soros here is holding the beeping mobile phone, slightly astonished, but when he thinks of the recent rumors in the market, he feels a little relieved. Recently Paulson was nominated as US Secretary of the Treasury, and he thought that his time at Goodman would not be too long. Stability may be his top priority, so Soros was not angry but happy, and pondered After a while, he called the CEO of another famous Wall Street investment bank.

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   "Mr. Zhong, do you know how much trouble you caused by saying that?"

When the interview was over, Zhong Shi went to the bathroom to wash his face and completely removed his makeup. Hu Ping slipped in quietly and stood leaning by the door with his arms crossed, looking solemnly at Zhong Shi who was splashing water on his face. , Shaking his head frequently while speaking.

"It doesn't matter, everything is still under control!" Zhong Shi didn't look back, took another handful of water, and wiped off the foundation from the corners of his eyes one by one, "If you are talking about the natural gas market, then there is no problem, now The initiative is in our hands. Uh... it may also be in the hands of others, don’t worry, no one dares to openly manipulate the market at this time.”

   After talking for a long time, Zhong Shi finally washed his face. When he opened his eyes again, he found that Hu Ping still hadn't left.

   "Wow, you mean..."

Only then did Zhong Shi put away his perfunctory attitude just now, and after thinking about it seriously, he felt that Hu Ping might have taken the situation too seriously. He pondered for a long time and said sincerely: "Mr. Hu, do you think that I just Is everything just talking nonsense? No, I can tell you clearly that all this is from my heart and based on my judgment on the future of the US economy. If you don’t believe me, then we will have to wait and see. I believe it will not be a few years , all this may actually happen.”

   "Hey, I don't know what to say!"

Seeing Zhong Shi's serious face and sincere tone, Hu Ping had no choice but to put away the questioning posture just now, first sighed, and then said seriously: "Mr. Zhong, although I admire your intuition and judgment, but in this matter In matters, our differences are really too big. And your behavior today exposed us, which may cause considerable trouble for our trading in the future, so I decided that after finishing this order, I and My team will be completely separated from you. Although your capital is powerful, the current market is completely different from that of eight years ago. If you continue like this, you may become the next permanent fund.”

Hu Ping was also very serious when he said all this. Obviously, he and Zhong Shi finally had a fundamental difference in terms of investment philosophy. At this time, it is the best time to choose to part ways, so that he can save enough capital Self-reliance, second, the two parties separated at the best time of cooperation, and all they can leave to each other are good memories.

"Okay, but Jiang Shan has already transferred to my sect, I believe you will not keep him anymore!" For Hu Ping's departure, Zhong Shi had already been psychologically prepared, so he didn't say anything to persuade him to stay, but just snatched Jiang Shan Afterwards, he warmly invited Hu Pingdao, "I'm going to go hunting in South Africa this weekend, so you should go too?"

Generally speaking, when there is no work time on weekends, the elites in the financial industry will choose some "leisure" activities to relax themselves, such as skydiving, rock climbing, racing, diving and other competitive activities with certain risks. On the one hand, they can vent their abundant energy, on the other hand, they can also maintain their strong sense of competition and aggressiveness.

   But at the level of Zhongshi, naturally he no longer needs to use similar activities to develop his strength, and more often he chooses to go to sea or hunt to kill time. Of course, the entry threshold for these activities is definitely not low, starting at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, and those who can be invited by investors are either rich or expensive, which is more upscale and exciting than golf-style social networking. A popular pastime in society.

Although Hu Ping has also heard about it, this kind of high consumption is obviously not suitable for him. In fact, he has only heard of it, so when he heard what Zhong Shi said, he opened his eyes wide and looked at it in disbelief. Looking at Zhong Shi, he reluctantly shook his head after a long while and said, "This activity is not suitable for me. It is a sin to see those animals die under the gun, not to mention that I am the one who pulls the trigger! Anyway , thank you for your kindness!"

"Natural selection, survival of the fittest!" Zhong Shi curled his lips in disdain, and said disapprovingly, "What's different? The same is true in the financial market. Just wait and see, one day, a catastrophe sweeping the world There will be a crisis in the United States, and then you will know that everything I said today is true."

  (end of this chapter)