Washington, USA.

It is Tuesday, August 27th.

In the private area of ​​the president's family in the East Wing of the White House, Bill Clinton, who had quietly slept with Hillary in a separate room, got up early this morning and sat in the restaurant. While eating, he couldn't help but open the latest issue of Forbes magazine that was just released yesterday.

Not only is the young man at the top of the list's personal wealth of $1.5 trillion is shocking, but the entire list is enough to cause too many sighs.

Among them, the top ten on the list are the most typical.

First place: Simon Westeros, $1.5 trillion.

Second place: Bill Gates, $97.1 billion.

Third place: Claire Gain, $29.5 billion.

Fourth place: Neil Brantley, $29.5 billion.

No. 5: Paul Allen, $18.6 billion.

Sixth place: Tim Berners Lee, $17.8 billion.

Seventh place: Jeff Bezos, $17.8 billion.

No. 8: Carol Butz, $17.8 billion.

Ninth place: Larry Ellison, $15.5 billion.

Fourth place: Warren Buffett, $13.9 billion.

The top ten richest people in the United States are really the first one who is a strange and weird star. Not to mention, the others, their personal wealth has all entered the 10 billion dollar range.

This is not the most critical.

The most important point is that among the ten super rich people, except for Warren Buffett, most of the other nine people have come from the new technology fields that have rapidly risen in recent years. Moreover, this tendency is more prominent on the entire 400-person list.

Once again, it gives people the feeling of suddenly a new era surging.

It was only 7:30 after breakfast, attorney General Janet Renault of the Clinton Cabinet hurried to the White House to have a final discussion with the President on the press conference at 9:00 this morning.

Yesterday's Forbes list was released. Faced with the heated discussions from the media, something brewing in the White House has also reached its best launch moment.

Because it was also yesterday, on August 26, the four-day Democratic National Convention was officially held in Atlanta, Georgia, the host of this session. It can be regarded as a way to take advantage of some of the Olympic Games that have just ended. As an in-service president, Clinton does not need to attend the entire session, but two days later, on August 29, he will also personally deliver a speech and officially accept the party's nomination.

Immediately afterwards, the Republican National Congress, from August 30 to September 3.

These eight days are the complete end of the pre-election phase of the presidential election. After the Republican nomination was announced on September 3, the official election sprint will be fully launched.

Although many things will be settled these days and there will basically be no major changes, the struggle will never stop.

Since we have determined the strategy of actively attacking the Westeros system to avoid being passive, after these intense preparations these days, taking advantage of the release of the Forbes 400 US Rich List, today is also a very suitable time for formal "declaration of war". This will achieve the best public opinion effect and leave the Republican Party speechless.

After discussing for more than half an hour, Janet Renault hurriedly left.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

The U.S. Department of Justice held a press conference chaired by Attorney General Janet Renault, officially announcing that because Egrit Company did not well implement the agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice at the end of 1994, the Justice Department will once again launch an investigation into a series of suspected monopoly behaviors of Egrit Company.

The focus of this investigation is illegal behaviors such as using market advantages between IGRENT software and network departments to force users to use their own Internet software and cloud computing services, unfair competition brought about by the monopoly of IE browsers, and using market advantages to maliciously suppress competitors.

Although there is a three-hour time difference on the east and west coasts, after the Ministry of Justice held a press conference, the head of the East Coast branch of Igret responded immediately, expressing regret for the Ministry of Justice's investigation into Igret, emphasizing that Igret is a company that strictly abides by market rules and completely denies all allegations against Igret at the Ministry of Justice's press conference.

The Igrit portal also released more detailed responses and self-defense on its website simultaneously.

From the launch of Verizon Telecom to the launch of the Justice Department's investigation, there were only 10 days apart. 10 days apart, which was enough for those who should know to know the White House's plan. Therefore, ordinary people felt quite sudden about this press conference, but this matter was not a secret whether it was Washington, Wall Street or Silicon Valley.

Regarding this news incident, what everyone is more concerned about is the impact this investigation may have on the Nasdaq stock market.

Including the White House.

As the initiator, no one cares more than Clinton. Once the investigation accidentally bursts the technology stock bubble and triggers a stock market crash, then he will definitely not have a good time in the next few months. It is even possible that he will lose his re-election opportunity when the polls are far ahead at this time.

Fortunately, in the early risk assessment, the White House staff believed that they only launched an investigation and did not have too obvious impact on Nasdaq when there was no substantial action for the time being. Moreover, the announcement of the investigation was made on the second day after Forbes magazine announced the new year's 400 richest people list, which was also due to 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 Nasdaq Index's 2.9% increase throughout the day after the list was released yesterday is proof of this, so it can greatly offset the negative effects brought by this survey.

The press conference that started at nine o'clock lasted 20 minutes, and then, at 9:30 a.m., the U.S. stock market opened.

It's just a downward curve.

Within just five minutes, the Nasdaq index fell from 5263 points to 5134 points, a drop of 1.9%.

At this time, the total market value of all companies in the Nasdaq market had reached US$6 trillion, with a 1.9% drop, which seems not much, but it also means that in just 5 minutes, the wealth of more than US$100 billion in stocks has disappeared.

On the other hand, as the most direct target, the stock price of Igret Company will inevitably be affected more severely after the opening. However, in five minutes, compared with the market's 1.9% decline, the stock price of Igret's stock price fell by only 2.6%. Even this means that nearly 10 billion US dollars of book wealth disappeared quickly, but it is completely within controllable.

Everyone was worried and closely watching. After a brief decline, the Nasdaq began to rebound again. The stock price of Igret also rebounded, and the imagined selling tide did not appear. After half an hour, 30 minutes into the opening, the Nasdaq index returned to above 5,200 points, and the stock price of Igret returned to within the 2% range, and countless people breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, the Republicans counterattacked.

Bob Doll, the Republican presidential candidate who launched his personal website, personally posted a blog post at 10 a.m., criticizing Clinton for launching an investigation into Igritte at this time, which was completely bluffing and covering up his serious strategic mistakes in the new technology industry in the past few years.

Bob Doll also said that once he is elected, he will truly take severe measures to guide the development of new technology industries and avoid the rise of wealth dividends in the information age by a few people.

It has to be said that the Republican candidate chose to build a website separately and chose IBM's network service platform instead of opening Facebook accounts like many politicians. This detail that clearly draws a clear line with the Westeros system has obviously been carefully considered.

Moreover, this remark, in line with the east wind released by the Forbes US 400 Rich List yesterday, also hit the nail on the head.

Not suffering from lack of weight but inequality is a common problem for almost everyone.

Many people do not consider too much whether they have the ability to fight and rush into the new technology wave. They just feel unfair to see other trendsetters gaining huge wealth from it.

In any case, since you can't get it, it's best for others not to get it.

However, some people may notice, or maybe not so many people noticed that Bob Doll did not name a name in his speech, but simply emphasized that after he was elected, more people would gain dividends from the new technology industry.

Although these words can effectively incite the general public, for those who understand, they basically say nothing.

Bob Doll is just a candidate after all. Even if the other party is the Senate's Majority Leader, there are not many things that can be done, just like the Cassebaum Kennedy bill that was snatched by Clinton some time ago. Because of the White House's early move, some Republican lawmakers who have been running around for a long time to promote this bill were so angry that they wanted to vomit blood.

The same is true for this first attack on the Westeros system.

In fact, after Clinton decided to take the move, the Republican Party quickly got the news, but he still had to watch.

Although both houses of Congress also have the power to initiate various judicial investigations, and the Republicans also controlled the entire Congress through the midterm elections two years ago, compared to Clinton's absolute authority in the White House, what Congress wants to do, even if the party initiates occupy a majority, it will take a long time to argue whether it is promoting the bill or launching an investigation.

At least, it is definitely too late to prepare an investigation into the Westeros system in advance in 10 days.

This is why so many people are fighting for the White House position with blood.

Congress has great power, but it is a Congress of hundreds of people.

The White House is just a single White House. Because it has absolute power, both the staff team and the cabinet members need to obey the President, who is the head of state and the commander of the three armies, otherwise it will be fired.

On the other hand, whether it is the sudden investigation initiated by the Department of Justice or the game between the two parties in the United States using the Westeros system as a gimmick at the last moment of the election, it is just a continuation of the wealth list that shocked the world yesterday.

$1.5 trillion!

Too many people cannot understand what scale of wealth this is, but, no matter what, everyone understands that such a batch of wealth is too huge, so huge... it has made many people feel uneasy.

Therefore, the investigation initiated by the Justice Department today, even if many Republicans and right-wing media such as Bob Doll have revealed the possible thoughts, as long as someone attacks the Westeros system and attacks that man, everyone will feel much better.

The purpose of Mr. President taking the lead in making moves is also considered to be achieved.

You should know that it is not just that high-ranking young man, the entire list is 400, but not some rich people with a relatively shallow connection with Bill Gates, but only a billionaire who can be called "Westerosian". Compared with 37 people last year, with many newcomers such as B Girl who founded Aliya Company on the list, it has increased rapidly to 53 people this year. In other words, more than one-eighth of the group of people at the top of the country's wealth pyramid comes from the Westeros system.

How can this make people feel balanced?!

Therefore, among the chaotic public opinion, someone once again proposed the statement of wealth tax. An additional tax should be imposed on the group of people at the top of the pyramid to reduce the wealth in this society.

However, because of the fresh memories of someone's series of adventure and tough actions two years ago, and the strength of the Westeros system itself is quietly taking another step forward, both the media and the political circles have different influences. Therefore, this time, when someone mentioned it again, the responders are far less than that of two years ago, and the responses caused were even fewer.

Some people have also refuted that if some people are forced to deprive them because they have too much wealth, it is equivalent to shaking the foundation of capitalist society.

After all, the United States is not the former Soviet Union.

Of course, the Westeros system will not remain indifferent. The guidance of public opinion was even before the release of the Forbes list. One of the important trends was to start criticizing the serious bubble in technology stocks, and to instill in the public the idea that both Simon Westeros and other technology stock tycoons are not worthy of their personal wealth.

Ah Q's spirit is universal all over the world.

Since whether it is Simon Westeros’ more than one trillion US dollars or the billions or tens of billions of wealth of other technology stocks, it is just a bubble, naturally there are not many things to be envied.

At the same time, the Westeros system has once again begun to promote the benefits brought to ordinary companies on a large scale, and has launched a large number of cases of relying on Internet platforms to transform from ordinary people into millionaires and millionaires through blog creation, publishing videos, making games and other means in recent years, so as to tell the public that the Internet is open to everyone and everyone has the opportunity to rely on the Internet to realize their American dream.

The hustle and bustle caused by the latest Forbes list spread all over the world, including China, naturally.

Moreover, this time, this list, or to be precise, someone on this list has aroused the ideas of many people in the upper class in China.

This person ranks 387th on the Forbes US 400 Rich List this year, with a personal wealth of US$500 million, which is only 70 million more than the 400th US$430 million threshold. The industry involved in the notes is also a popular "technology" field.

On the original English list, the rich man's name is Su Lin.

Lin Su.

This Lin Su is naturally the Lin Su.

At the beginning, many people didn't react and didn't think in a certain direction. After all, they subconsciously felt that the Forbes list was so high-end and the Americans were the list, so what did it have to do with the Chinese? It was not until a girl who deliberately made bad things from the beginning and had her own boss cooperated with her to release the news that everyone suddenly realized.

A certain Lin Su turned out to be a Chinese girl who had just immigrated to the United States for only two years.

$500 million.

It seems that there are not many on the Forbes list, but according to the exchange rate of the US dollar against the RMB, it is equivalent to 4.3 billion yuan.

What is the concept of 4.3 billion yuan?
Chapter completed!