Picking up the coffee and taking a sip, Sabrina Rand carefully looked at the young man across from her again, watching Eric's eyes focus on the book, even though it had been more than half the time, her eyes were still With curiosity.
Half a month ago, Sabrina, who was looking for a part-time job during the holidays, received a call from her famous tutor in the college, saying that a big man wanted to find a temporary tutor to explain some basics of finance to him Knowledge, you only need 3 hours in the morning every day, and you can get 200 US dollars in remuneration.
The more top universities in the United States, the higher the tuition fees. This is actually one of the reasons why nearly half of American college students drop out of school. Except for a few children of the rich, most American college graduates are more or less burdened with some student loans. In order to alleviate financial pressure, many students choose part-time jobs during school.
The same goes for Sabrina, who until then worked most of the time, making around $10 an hour.
Hearing that this job can earn $200 a day for three hours, Sabrina couldn't wait to prepare a resume and hand it over to the tutor. However, she didn't report too much expectation. Although the grades in the department are good, there are a lot of competitors who are better than her and hope to get the job.
But two days later, she was notified that she had the job.
Later, she met a vice president-level executive of the Firefly Group, who seemed to be named Alan Fissman. She thought that the other party was the one she wanted to counsel, but it turned out that the other party was just interviewing her. The two chatted casually for half an hour, and she was then asked to sign a non-disclosure contract that was more than ten pages long.
Sabrina probably realized something in the process of allowing a vice president-level executive of the Firefly Group to come forward for such a trivial temporary job, but Sabrina was still surprised when she finally saw Eric himself His jaw nearly dropped.
The place of work is in Southampton, more than 100 kilometers away from Columbia University in Manhattan. For this temporary job, Sabrina deliberately stayed at the home of a classmate in Bridges City, not far from Southampton. Every day Drive half an hour early in the morning to this cafe in Southampton.
In the first few days, Sabrina spent most of her time explaining a lot of basic knowledge points to Eric, mainly the technical terms in the book "Financial Alchemy" written by financial tycoon George Soros, Reflexivity, participant bias, swap hedging, etc. These issues are very basic for most students majoring in finance.
Although she didn't dare to express it, Sabrina occasionally had some inexplicable sense of superiority in her heart.
But as the days passed, Eric had fewer and fewer questions every day, but he also seemed more and more tricky. There were several times when Sabrina was almost speechless.
However, more recently, Sabrina has felt more and more like a vase. Except for the first few questions every day, Eric just reads quietly by himself most of the time, thinking occasionally, or in a daze .
Perhaps, in a few days, this well-paid job will be lost.
At this moment, thinking of the initial sense of superiority, Sabrina couldn't help but feel that she was so stupid. The young man in front of her who holds the most personal wealth in the world is only two years older than her. Sabrina can think that maybe in two years, she will just get a stable job at most, and she is still far away from her previous life goal. There are hundreds of thousands of miles away, but the young man in front of him has already broken through the wealth limit that most people can have.
How much money does he have, 46.5 billion U.S. dollars, no, that was from the year before last, last year it seemed to be 67.7 billion U.S. dollars, really powerless.
After getting along for more than half a month, occasionally, Sabrina would have some thoughts about Cinderella, Cinderella, Cinderella, etc. For this reason, she always pays special attention to her appearance and dress subconsciously during this time, and specially I bought a brand new set of cosmetics, but so far, except for the "Financial Alchemy" in front of me, Eric has not communicated with her too much, and she has not even been to his residence. He must live nearby, and the two of them can only meet in this coffee shop every day. Occasionally, if he doesn't come, she will be notified to leave.
Noticing that Eric's eyes left the book again and began to lose his mind, Sabrina paused for a while, suddenly mustered up her courage, and said: "Eric... Eric, I went to see "Titanic" with my friends last night gone."
After saying this, Sabrina noticed that Eric paused and raised his head, as if he noticed that there was a person sitting opposite him. Then, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which was a bit hateful, as if A smile that sees through everything.
Feeling her cheeks burning slightly, Sabrina regretted it inexplicably, but since she opened her mouth, she insisted on blurting out the thoughts that had been brewing for a while, "My friends and I feel that this movie is seriously underestimated." , its box office should have been higher."
Eric nodded slightly, and said, "Thank you for your affirmation, Sabrina, I'm glad you like this movie."
After Eric finished speaking, he picked up the book in front of him, and his eyes fell on the page again.
The civet cat's attempt to strike up a conversation ended in failure, but Sabrina felt a lot more relaxed in her heart, and she couldn't have the courage to speak up again.
So consistent until twelve o'clock at noon, Sabrina packed up her things, Eric also stood up at this time, and the two walked out of the coffee shop together. Sabrina was about to say goodbye to Eric, and went to the nearby On the road to see if he could hail a taxi or hitchhike back home, Eric stopped him with his hand.
"Wait a minute, I'll have someone take you back," Eric said.
Sabrina froze for a moment, nodded subconsciously, but felt a little warmer in her heart. She just casually said that her car broke down in the morning, but he didn't expect him to remember it in her heart. Before that, she always felt that he was a cold-hearted person, but she suddenly felt that she had wronged him.
Eric took out his mobile phone and made a call, and the two waited on the roadside outside the coffee shop.
Sabrina carried her bag quietly, paused for a while, and made up her mind: "Eric, you may not need me anymore, maybe I don't need to come here tomorrow, right?"
Eric looked at the girl and asked, "Your vacation should be long, is there anything else to do?"
Sabrina thought about it, but shook her head honestly.
"Then continue reading with me," Eric said with a smile, "I like to have someone by my side when I'm reading, and you smell good too."
Sabrina blushed and said, "Eric, there should be many...girls around you, are you willing to read books with you?"
"Yeah," Eric nodded: "However, they won't explain to me what is called reflexive theory."
Then, Sabrina asked cautiously again: "Eric, may I ask, why are you interested in this book by Mr. Soros?"
Eric replied ambiguously: "Some things are going to happen, so find out in advance."
Seeing that Eric didn't mean to explain in detail to her, Sabrina wisely didn't ask. It wasn't until more than half a year later, when the economic crisis that shocked the world swept across Southeast Asia, that Sabrina understood the meaning of Eric's words at this time. wearing something.
The driver drove the car over, Eric ordered the other party to send Sabrina back to Bridges, and then he returned to the manor.
Surprisingly, Chris and Emily rushed over without knowing when. They went back to Maryland to accompany Jeffrey during Christmas, and they didn't expect to come back so soon.
Eric hugged the two of them one by one, chatted casually, Chris noticed the "Financial Alchemy" in Eric's hand, and said with a smile: "You recently hired a little girl to accompany you Read this book?"
Eric nodded, not forgetting to joke: "Has this matter spread to Maryland?"
"I heard about it when Emily and Joan were on the phone," Chris explained.
Emily smiled and teased, "Who knows what he's paying attention to."
Eric ignored Emily's ridicule and asked, "Why did you come back so early, why don't you stay for a few more days?"
"It's not you who push so much work to Chris, but you are so leisurely."
Eric looked Emily up and down a few times, looked at her furiously, and then said: "If you marry Chris now, I will take half of his work immediately."
When Emily heard this, she was immediately KO'd, and she dragged Virginia who was beside her to the villa, and said without forgetting, "We're going to prepare lunch, you two, let's chat."
Everyone chuckled.
After the women left, Chris returned to the "Financial Alchemy" and said, "Have you also noticed Soros' actions recently?"
""Whether Soros' bad-mouthing of the Southeast Asian economy was kept secret, how could I not notice it. ""
The Southeast Asian economic crisis is generally believed to have erupted in 1997, but in fact, as early as the beginning of this year, Soros had already frequently expressed his pessimism about the Southeast Asian economy. Just as the pound sterling will never depreciate in 2010, at this time, Southeast Asian countries, which have experienced more than ten years of false prosperity, also feel that their financial systems will not be breached by mere international hot money, so they have not taken any effective measures to prevent it from happening .
At this time, some impatient international currency counterfeiters may have begun to establish short positions in the currencies of Southeast Asian countries. Eric remembered that in February next year, the international foreign exchange speculators represented by Soros had already launched tentative attacks on the Thai baht.
Chris couldn't help but think of the incident in 1990, and asked, "This time, what do you think?"
Eric shrugged and said: "The Southeast Asian countries must be in bad luck this time, they can't hold on."
Chris's eyes flickered, and he said, "Then what about us this time?"
"I've been thinking about this issue recently," Eric said, "We will definitely not be able to replicate the futures profit miracle during the Kuwait War this time. It was a sudden super black swan event, and almost everyone didn't feel it. Saddam dared to invade Kuwait, but he just did it. This time is different. Once Soros takes the lead in attacking the Southeast Asian currency market, it will be a long tug-of-war for at least half a year or even a year. The scale of international hot money is more than 100 billion, and we have no advantage in who we enter the market with, and the risks we take will not be lower than others."
"So what are you going to do?" Chris asked again.
"Let's just play around. The hundreds of millions of dollars go in and make a small fuss. Although we can't play too much, we can't just do nothing. That's not in line with my style."
These days, Eric has also been thinking about various issues related to the upcoming economic crisis in Southeast Asia. Of course, he thought about doing it like he did five years ago, but then he found that it didn't work at all.
The reason is very simple. With the current background of Firefly Group, Eric can easily raise 2 billion US dollars in a short period of time. If necessary, Firefly Group can also lend more than 1 billion US dollars in a short period of time from major banks in the United States. funds.
Then, in an ideal state, with 2 billion US dollars of funds and a five-fold security leverage to establish a short position in Southeast Asian currencies, then the overall short position will reach 10 billion US dollars.
In my memory, the currencies of Southeast Asian countries have basically depreciated by about 50% after experiencing the financial crisis. Then, by then, Eric will be able to obtain about US$5 billion in short positions of US$10 billion. income.
5 billion US dollars, this is already a very generous profit figure. After all, the top few corporate giants in the United States only have this figure in annual profits.
But the fact is that in Eric's memory, the four Asian tigers in Southeast Asia that suffered the most from the financial crisis, the combined foreign exchange reserves of several countries are only more than 100 billion US dollars. Currency speculation is different from international futures, and the takers are mainly The government banks of the countries that were attacked were also sourced from the foreign exchange reserves of the countries.
Well, not to mention the search for the stock markets, bonds and even the real economy of various countries in the later period, just in terms of currency speculation, the total "fat meat" of more than 100 billion U.S. dollars is in the situation where the wolves are looking around, Eric no matter what It is impossible to establish a short position with a size of 10 billion US dollars.
You want to swallow one-tenth of the principal of 2 billion U.S. dollars by yourself, and pretend that other people's international hot money of more than 100 billion U.S. dollars does not exist.
During the financial crisis in Southeast Asia in the original time and space, Soros put all his wealth at that time, and only made more than 2 billion U.S. dollars in the end.
Therefore, perhaps those small investors, in the coming financial crisis, may take a bold risk and reap several times the profits. A profit of twenty or thirty is not bad. (To be continued.)