1855 United States Tycoon

Contrary to what Vito thought, the next day, the stock market still did not crash. Everything seemed to be normal. The stock price continued to rise, and then fell slightly at the close, but overall, it still rose a little. For more than two years, the continued prosperity has made many people forget the dangers, and even take the rise of stocks as a matter of course. Well, Scrooge used such a malicious story to laugh at such a guy at a family gathering:

"There is a group of chickens, they have discovered a pattern. That is, every certain time, there will be a peasant woman, and then the delicious corn will fall on the Houtian. Day after day, it is like this. They all feel that it is just A normal rule was over, so one day, the time came again, and the peasant woman appeared again, and then a roast chicken was added to the table in the peasant woman’s house."

But at least for now, the chicken has not been brought to the table. Still alive and waiting for new corn.

"Damn it! Why isn't it crashing!" Vito scolded viciously in his heart, looking at the stock price that had risen slightly after a so-called turbulence. The stocks in his hands have been sold a long time ago, and he has earned more than 30,000 dollars in pocket money, which is faster than mining gold in Alaska. Now Vito has taken out half of it, which is almost $16,000, to short the railway. This is very risky. If the crash did not occur within the time he scheduled, he might lose about $7,000 at the current rate of increase. Even now, this is not a small amount for Vito.

...

"Mr. MacDonald, now the needs in your name are thrown out." Joshua said to Scrooge.

"Ah, then Joshua, are you going to start shorting?" Scrooge asked.

"No, there is still a little room for appreciation." Joshua said.

"So your funds have not been withdrawn yet?" Scrooge said, "Joshua, I admire your skills very much, but after you have already won, you have gone too far to pursue annihilation or something. It’s not a good habit. There are always forces outside our control in the market."

"You mean Morgan and the others?" Joshua said, "I noticed that they seem to be withdrawing funds recently. They may be preparing to start short selling. My funds have already been withdrawn, even now. All the money in it is lost, and it won’t hurt my muscles. Moreover, the part of the funds I withdrew has already begun to be short. In this way, if it really falls too fast, it will make the rest of me too late. If I withdrew and suffered a loss, the profit I gained in the short part of the plunge would be enough to make up for these losses, and even make me a lot of money."

"You'd better sell all the long stocks before the end of this month, because next month there will be a good news to be announced, which may cause the railroad stocks to fall." Scrooge said calmly.

"What kind of ‘good news’?"

"Temporarily confidential, and..." Scrooge smiled, "The content of this news is too professional, um, forget it, you will know it in a few days."

...

"Mr. John, you see, here is a manuscript that is very breakthrough. His first author is Mr. Scrooge McDonald!" The editor assistant Jack handed a thick manuscript to the editor Mr. John.

"Mr. Scrooge McDonald's manuscript? I thought he had given up scientific research." John, the editor of The Lancet, turned around a little surprised and saw that Jack's hands were as thick as one. The manuscript of the book, he couldn't help but laugh again: "Ah, Mr. Scrooge McDonald's old habits have not changed. He has brought another book. Do you want us to publish a new special issue? Let me see……"

Since the last time Scrooge published the long paper, which is generally considered to have initiated an era, titled "Research on the Causes of Some Infectious Diseases and the Effects of Certain Chemicals on Their Treatment", although Liu Ye Dao asked Scrooge for drafts many times, but Scrooge never published any new articles on The Lancet since then. Later, everyone learned that Scrooge had become a rich man, so most of the editors believed that Scrooge had mostly given up on scientific research, and focused on making money.

When John opened the manuscript, he first saw the title of the paper "Conjecture of a new microorganism caused by yellow fever and the study of experimental results, and discussion of its pathogenic mechanism, transmission mode, prevention and treatment methods"

"Ah, the name that Mr. MacDonald gave to the paper is still terrible." John said, flipping through the article, and gradually his face became more and more serious.

After several hours, John finally finished reading the paper. He raised his head and looked at the wall clock. It was time for work.

"Oh, it's only thirty minutes. I must go to see Mr. Poole right away and let him see this before he gets off work." John grabbed the manuscript, rushed out of the office, and rushed towards the editor-in-chief's office on the third floor. .

The editor-in-chief, Dr. Poole, is already packing up his things and getting home from work. Today is his wife's birthday, and he wants to rush back to celebrate his birthday. At this moment, the door was suddenly opened.

"John, what's the matter?" Poole looked at John who was running panting in surprise.

"Dr. Poole... there is a new paper..." John gasped and said, "Mr. Scrooge McDonald's, I... I think it... It's as good as his last one. "

"Bring it to me to see?" Dr. Poole said, um, for a general paper, you can roughly know the quality after a little flipping, and it won't take much time. At least that's what Dr. Poole thought. Besides, Dr. Poole has always been very confident about own reading speed. Although it's close to the time to get off work, it's okay to look at it roughly.

After receiving the essay from John, Dr. Poole discovered that the essay was thick enough, and it was probably too late to finish it. But now that you have it, and you haven’t got off work yet, let’s take a look first...

...

"John, it's a pity that we can't repeat the experiment mentioned here right now. This is really a high-level paper. It's a pity that this new microorganism named'virus' by Mr. MacDonald can't be seen with a microscope. . And it can only be confirmed by some relatively indirect methods, but Mr. MacDonald’s experimental design is really very, very creative... Ah, John, help me turn on the light, damn the light here is too dark NS……"

In this way, Dr. Poole was looking at the paper while discussing the contents with John and discussing when to arrange the experimental verification and how to arrange the layout. I don't know how long it took. John's belly first made a "cooing" sound, and then Dr. Poole's belly joined the chorus unwillingly.

"Oh, it's been a long time since work hours?" Dr. Pool suddenly remembered that today is like his wife's birthday, so he couldn't help but change his face and said, "Damn it, it's Annie's birthday, I promised her to go home on time. Ah, John, I can’t talk to you about this anymore. I must hurry home immediately, or I might have to spend the night on the balcony tonight! Lord..." The image is gone, and he ran away.

"By the way, John, put the paper away, this paper is extremely important!" Dr. Poole's voice came into John's ears along with the sound of hurrying down the stairs.

...

"There is a large amount of money that began to short, it is mostly Scrooge and Joshua." A banker said to Morgan.

"Are there statistics? Show me." Morgan said.

An assistant immediately handed some materials to Morgan. Morgan took the materials and looked at it carefully. After a while, he frowned.

"It is true that there is a large amount of funds preparing to go short, but the amount does not look like Scrooge and Joshua. Their funds are forced to be much more. Is it that they did not take all the profitable funds? Short? Well, it's also very possible. Although Scrooge started short, but when he was playing finance, his courage was actually very small. And he has many ways to make money. Maybe he found something more reliable. It’s a way to make money, so I put the money in other uses, right? What new use is it? Did he discover another gold mine like that in Alaska?" Morgan thought.

"Although the amount of funds is not small, it is much less than what we know when Scrooge and Joshua invested in the long stock market. This is probably just Joshua’s funds, not even Joshua. He has all the funds in his hand. But according to these figures, Scrooge's funds should have been profitably withdrawn. But his money has not been invested in short selling. What does he want to do?" Morgan asked.

"Perhaps, maybe just like the last oil crisis, Scrooge wanted to separate himself for the sake of fame." Someone said.

"It's not the same. The crisis was completely initiated by Scrooge. Not this time. And this time he can let the Jews come forward." Morgan said, "He must have some new money-making plan, but it's a pity. , We don’t know. Otherwise, you can make a lot of money with the past."

...

"Scrooge, you can definitely make a lot of money shorting the railroad right away, why don't you do this?" Dorothea asked.

"Because you can make a lot of money if you go long in another industry right away, and it won't be as hateful as shorting railway stocks and letting the entire economy crash." Scrooge said with a smile.

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