Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 512: American stock undertaker! (seeking a monthly ticket)

Bill Gates contacted the Saltwater Fund through his foundation and directly injected one billion US dollars. During the consultation, Ian Ball learned that this sum of money would be used to short Enron, and he almost knelt down in fright down.

Short Enron?

Among other things, each Enron employee pissed enough to flood the saltwater fund.

At that time, it will really be worthy of the name of "salt water".

Ian Power rushed to find Lu Yiming. After he entered the villa, he hurriedly asked: "I just received a billion dollars from the foundation under the name of Gates, saying that it is to short Enron. Is it true?" ?"

Lu Yiming never told him about this matter!
In fact, Lu Yiming had been planning this matter for a long time, but he felt that it was not the best opportunity now, so he did not tell Ian Ball that when he was playing golf, he just talked about this matter , so Lu Yiming took the opportunity to tell the matter.

Lu Yiming poured a glass of rum for Ian Ball, and said in a relaxed tone, "What? Are you scared?"

Ian Ball took the rum and took a sip, the faint sweetness mixed with the stimulation of alcohol lingered on the tip of his tongue.

Ian Ball didn't taste the sweetness, he only felt a bitterness.

"That's the Enron Group, can I not be afraid?"

To destroy the jobs of 2 people in one go, and cause untold financial losses to the capital forces behind Enron, this feud will be forged.

Even if one day he was dragged to the bottom of the Hudson River with cement during his morning jog, Ian Ball would not be surprised.

His hands are still shaking now.

He really can't handle such a big scapegoat.

Lu Yiming sat in front of him with a normal face, looking at him indifferently: "How much money have you made recently?"

Ian Ball was taken aback when he heard the words, and then said in a low tone: "2000 million US dollars."

If this money is in the past, he will never be able to earn it in his life.

But under Lu Yiming's guidance, he earned it without any effort. Not only did he get rich overnight, but he also gained fame.

Lu Yiming looked at Ian Ball coldly and asked, "Isn't it great to make money and become famous? If you think it's too hot, I don't mind finding someone else to do it."

Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Ian Ball trembled all over, and he almost couldn't hold his wine glass.

He thought of himself half a month ago, and thought about his current scenery.

After a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Lu, I know what to do, please give me another chance!"

As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. Ian Ball is 1 people who don't want to go back to the past life.

The feeling of gaining both fame and fortune really fascinated him.

He knew very well that the current him was Lu Yiming's tool man. A word from Lu Yiming could make him rich, but it could also make him fall into the abyss again.

The most painful thing in a person's life is not that the money is not spent when the person dies, but that the money has been spent and the person is not dead.

That would make life worse than death.

Obviously, he is a greedy person, he is more afraid of poverty than death!

What's more, he doesn't necessarily die. The big deal is to spend more money and hire more bodyguards. As long as he can become a billionaire and enter the upper class, what's the point of taking a little risk?
On the contrary, if he missed this opportunity, it would be difficult for him to climb up.

Lu Yiming shook the wine glass in his hand, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Do well, don't let me down, remember, behind you, there are also many important people watching you."

Ian Ball finally cheered up, nodded seriously, and then drank the rum in the glass.

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Do you know why I invited you to drink rum?"

Ian Bauer was taken aback by Lu Yiming's out-of-the-ordinary thinking, thought carefully about the history of rum, and said: "Rum originated in the Caribbean Sea in the [-]th century, and after it was brewed, it was deeply loved by pirates. Your favorite. You mean, we will be like pirates who are not afraid of wind and waves, always full of wildness and plunder?"

A smile of successful mischief appeared on Lu Yiming's face: "I have to say, your reading comprehension score is perfect. But the main reason is that I happen to have a bottle of rum in my hand, that's all."

Ian Power: "..."

Sure enough, Mr Lu has an unknown evil taste.

Last time it was a dead mouse.

This time it's rum.

A few days later, the U.S. stock market, which was already jittery, once again exploded with a shocking melon.

On a very famous talk show, in front of the audience all over the United States, Ian Ball broke the news with a serious expression: "In my recent survey of energy companies, I found that Enron's return on investment is obviously low. , even when the company was in its prime, its return on investment was only 6%, while peers typically returned three times that figure.”

The host also cooperatively put on a surprised expression: "Does this mean that there is something wrong with Enron?"

Ian Power said righteously: "Yes, the problem is very serious. I suggest that the Department of Justice immediately investigate Enron's financial situation. We must not allow such black sheep to continue to deceive innocent investors."

After the program was broadcast, the incident immediately caused an uproar!
After all, the spearhead of the Saltwater Fund this time is aimed at the energy giant Enron!
Dezhou, the birthplace of American-style Iai, has always been known for its sturdy folk customs, and Wude is quite abundant.

The headquarters of Enron is located here, and it is a well-known star enterprise in Texas.

In 1985, at the beginning of its establishment, the company took advantage of the US policy of allowing energy privatization and non-banking companies to operate financial services, quickly monopolized the energy supply in the United States, and introduced energy supply to the stock and futures trading markets.

Rapidly growing from an unknown small company to an energy giant, Enron's stock rose from less than $10 a share to $89 a share at an astonishing speed. Even technology companies such as Microsoft and Apple can only sigh in dismay. Humbled.

If you want to ask, what advanced business philosophy or innovative products and services did Enron rely on for its rapid rise?
Sorry, neither.

The rapid rise and take-off of Enron relies on the indestructible relationship network behind it.

The big backers behind it are the CIA, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Treasury Department. If anyone thinks that doing business in the U.S. does not respect human relations and relationships, then you can donate your brains.

Enron CEO Kenneth Ray was an official of the Pentagon and worked for the U.S. Department of Defense during the Vietnam War.

Another important member of the company's board of directors, Franka Wiesner, whose father is the former head of the CIA.And he himself is a fellow with the two-term President Bush, and he also grew up with Bush Jr.

In addition, Franka Weissner himself has multiple roles, and also serves as a member of the board of directors of the American insurance giant AIG.

What's interesting is that this AIG was founded in Xia, but it has been providing property insurance services for the US military. This business model sounds outrageous.

Robert, the former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, served as an independent director of Citigroup, and he was always close to Enron's Ray.

In addition, Enron formed an alliance with several affiliated companies, all of which, coincidentally, did business with the American military.

The ignorant are fearless, the more they know about An Ran's background, the more they understand what a tiger's butt can't touch.

Get anxious, it's not impossible for people to do things like missiles and planes.

At this time, the headquarters of Enron Corporation.

Kenneth Ray watched the rebroadcast of the talk show on TV, smashed his teacup, and cursed: "Shit, shit, shit!"

Now that Enron Group's underpants have been stripped off, it's no wonder that he, the CEO, can still sit still. What Ian Ball did was not digging his ancestral grave, it was simply waving a shovel to his forehead on the beat.

If it weren't for the influence of scruples, Kenneth Ray would like to find a team of gunmen and kill Ian Bauer directly.

"You calm down."

Franka Wiesner smoked a cigar, blew out a beautiful smoke ring, and said calmly: "Now is not the time to vent your anger. You want to take revenge. There will be opportunities in the future. The most important thing right now is how to do it?" Do solve the problem."

Kenneth Ray looked frustrated: "How to solve it? Can you make money, or can I make money?"

Enron's biggest problem right now is poor management.

As for how an energy giant with industry monopoly nature managed to run poorly, how did so many bad debts come from, and how profits disappeared, only God knows.

However, this is not surprising at all. After all, a certain petrochemical company on the other side of the ocean can also lose money while buying 4000 million chandelier.

Don't ask, it means you don't understand economics.

It’s good that this mess doesn’t come out. After all, Arthur Andersen, one of the world’s top five accounting firms, has personally helped to make fake accounts, and most people can’t see any problems.

But now someone just pierced the sky, it is really useless for God to come down to earth.

Taking a deep breath, Franka Wiesner suggested: "If it really doesn't work, we can only give up part of it."

These words sound obscure, but in fact, the money of small and medium-sized investors can be lost, but the money of the company's top management and the interests of the big shots behind it must be guaranteed with all efforts.

After all, it is important to take care of the overall situation.

After listening to Kenneth Ray, he nodded with difficulty: "I will try my best."

Then Franka Wiesner frowned again and asked, "Do you know who is manipulating this matter? I always feel that everything is too coincidental, and the truth may not be that simple."

Speaking of this, Kenneth Ray also gritted his teeth with hatred, and said without hesitation: "It's the group of vampires on Wall Street in New York, and they have nothing to do with Epstein!"

The general election is coming soon, and because of the zipper door incident, the struggle between the two major parties in the United States has become increasingly fierce.

So Kenneth Ray naturally has reason to suspect that Epstein is behind the scenes. First of all, the vampires on Wall Street can definitely do this. As long as there is money to be made, there is nothing they dare not do.

The second is that Epstein has an irreversible relationship with the current President of the United States. He is a member of a hostile party.

After listening to Franka Wisner, she couldn't help scolding and said: "Epstein is such a bastard, he still does things so unscrupulously. Forget it, we are caught by someone and hurt our feet. Let's keep a low profile for a while. Wait." After the new general election, there are plenty of opportunities to settle accounts after the autumn."

Kenneth Ray nodded helplessly, no matter how upset he felt, he had no choice but to endure it.

In just a few weeks, the once huge business empire collapsed like this.

The U.S. stock market, which was already plummeting, suddenly fell even worse, especially those small and medium-sized investors who held Enron shares and bought Enron bonds lost all their money.

However, what is strange is that a large number of media newspapers did not mention the reasons behind Enron's bankruptcy. Instead, they deliberately guided public opinion and the public's attention, so that even those investors who lost money thought they were unlucky and thought that Enron had failed. The company is simply poorly run.

Looking at the news in the newspaper, Li Yiwen, who knew the inside story and the truth, felt unbelievable: "What about the freedom of the press? The reporters who wrote these articles really didn't get paid?"

As a typical enterprise combining "capital" and "power", the rise and fall of Enron can almost be said to be a consistent presentation of the operation mode in Europe and the United States for hundreds of years.

And looking back, this incident has a symbolic significance, and it was the harbinger of the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008.

With such a huge asset scale, the real bankruptcy process only took a few weeks, and it collapsed at a speed too fast for people to react.

And what's interesting about the ending is that all the investors who lost blood were small and medium investors, while a large number of company executives and big shots behind them all managed to escape unscathed.

Best of all, no one is responsible for this!

Lu Yiming has long seen this kind of thing thoroughly, so his tone is quite disdainful: "The media is just the mouthpiece of the powerful, and public opinion is strictly controlled wherever it is."

Li Yiwen's mouth was full of disgust: "It's thanks to these white skins who have the nerve to brag about their freedom of speech all day long. I think they are free like a hammer."

Before deciding to act, Lu Yiming and Li Yiwen had secretly investigated Anran Company to the bottom, so they naturally knew how many inside stories and ulterior truths were hidden in it.

Enron's bankruptcy actually planted the seeds of disaster at the very beginning of its establishment.

When Bush Sr. was in power in [-], Thomas Kelly, Enron's head of finance, forced Kuwait to give Enron the order to rebuild the Shuaiba power plant, even though Enron's quotation was much higher than other suppliers at that time.

In [-], Enron, through Bush Sr., persuaded Bush Jr., then governor of Texas, to award Enron the contract to build a natural gas pipeline in Argentina through official pressure.

In return, a close friend of the Bush family became president of the project.In the same way, the third brother's power plant, Indonesia's energy project, Maozi's natural gas pipeline to Europe, etc. were also taken down.

In return, Enron has been giving blood transfusions to the politicians they support, spending a lot of money on political elections.

In order to promote the policies of these ruling parties, Enron spent a lot of money on public opinion.Set up funds for non-governmental organizations, and inject capital into various associations and think tanks related to government policies.

Of course, these are not accounts that can be written on the bright side, and must be done through the small companies under its umbrella. The company's profits go to Enron.

By making false accounts to defraud credit ratings, and then borrow money from banks at low interest rates and go to the stock market.

In this way, since entering the 90s, Enron has been sending funds to politicians in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Over time, Enron has more and more fake and bad debts.The company's performance reports are all fake, and the loopholes in the financial system are becoming more and more difficult to cover up.

Now that the fig leaf has been ripped off, what awaits Enron is a broken capital chain, a decline in credit rating that leads to early maturity of debts, falling stock prices and shrinking assets, and the rapid collapse of the entire group.

What is strange is that Enron's well-planned, institutionalized, and systematic financial fraud, which lasted for many years, was exposed until it went bankrupt, but it did not cause much public opinion and judicial consequences.

A large number of executives retreated unscathed, and the stockholders paid the bill and thought they were unlucky.If there is no force behind this kind of incident to settle it, even a dog would not believe it.

This is the law of how the capitalist world operates. Capital has been manipulating politics and ordinary people, taking away a lot of wealth from ordinary people in a way they can't understand at all.

Li Yiwen threw down the newspaper, and said with emotion: "With such a group of bastards on the stall, how can America survive."

Lu Yiming said with a smile: "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. With the foundation of the Lighthouse Kingdom, it is enough for them to struggle for decades. And if they don't struggle, how can we have a chance to make a fortune?"

Shorting Enron this time, in just a few weeks, Saltwater Fund made an astonishing profit of more than $17 billion, shocking the entire Wall Street.

But few people knew that Lu Yiming was able to get a full [-] million US dollars from it.

Even Li Yiwen said sincerely: "Indeed, the profits from this wave are worth the total profit we made from shorting dozens of Internet companies in US stocks."

Under Lu Yiming's instructions, Ian Ball desperately shorted Enron, while Epstein, Bill Gates and others behind him also continued to mobilize their forces and use their propaganda media to expose Enron's problems.

And every time a new problem is exposed, Ian Ball can always coincidentally increase his short position in advance. Finally, after Enron went bankrupt, he bought back Enron's stock at a negligible price to close the position, and Saltwater Fund benefited from it. Big profits were made, and Ian Ball once again made a name for himself by shorting Enron stock.

Now, fund managers on Wall Street have even given him a famous nickname - American Stock Undertaker!

After all, he was the ruthless man who kicked An Ran into the grave.

And also buried in the soil by Ian Ball, there are many previously hot Internet companies.

Today's Ian Bauer is also quite famous.

(End of this chapter)