America's Road to Wealth

Abel remembered that in the parallel time and space, George's general election next year was very smooth.

Because the benefits of 9/11 haven’t been eaten yet; because the benefits brought by the flooding of white houses and tax cuts are at their peak; because the last real estate boom in the United States is at its most active; He has enjoyed a lot of benefits in his tenure, and he wants to continue to eat...

In short, there is no suspense that George won, and the Elephant Party also beat the Donkey Party with a slight victory in this general election.

However... that is a parallel time and space.

In today's timeline, George's situation is not as good as it used to be.

I won't mention the Zhengzhi aspect, because nothing has changed. The two wars still took place, and the military-industrial complex was very satisfied.

The relatively large changes are mainly in the economic aspect.

Due to the existence of a certain big butterfly in Smith's time and space, Wall Street earlier focused its attention and energy on the subprime loan business like dove wine.

The advantage is that since 2002, almost any medium and large Wall Street securities companies and investment banks have made considerable profits, and the annualized return on investment returned to investors is very wonderful.

The downside... Ordinary people don't understand it when they see it, but people in the industry know it but don't say anything.

When the ants dug holes on the embankment to open ant nests, they didn't know that if the ant nests were opened too much, the dam would collapse, and eventually all the ants would die without a place to bury them.

But the ants in Nest A feel that the ants in Nest B and the ants in Nest C are both digging. They can both dig, why can’t they?

They will also excavate frantically and vigorously because they are afraid that they will dig slowly, and the benefits of the site will be taken up by other ants.

Everyone has this kind of thinking, and the result is that everyone digs together.

The day when the dam collapses is rushing towards us at an unimaginable speed.

Compared with the parallel time and space, the traces appeared at the end of 2006, and the outbreak of 2007 triggered the script of the depression and financial crisis.

Under Abel's intentional or unintentional influence, this time and space will obviously come earlier.

According to various data, Abel thinks that maybe even at the beginning of next year, the front stage of the subprime mortgage crisis will appear - a large number of subprime mortgage companies will become insolvent and even file for bankruptcy.

At that time, it is bound to affect George's election.

It's just these words, it's not easy to say to these people in front of you. Because before the disaster, no one would have believed that the American Empire, which has been prosperous since the fall of the red bear, would encounter such a big crisis.

Besides, Abel knew that it would be useless even if he said it himself.

A financial crisis of this scale cannot be borne by the current White House Zhengquan alone.

Unless George is replaced by Master Luo, only with Master Luo's iron fist and the strength of support can he rely on the government's guidance to survive that period of time.

Or maybe all the capitals are united, and everyone overcomes the difficulties together and overcomes that period of disaster.

However, the above two points are impossible to achieve, whether in the United States or in other capitalist countries.

So even if you say it yourself, it is actually useless.

Let's put it this way, so many big capitals and white houses in the United States have raised a large number of think tanks and smart companies.

There may be a lot of spicy chickens in these think tanks, but there are definitely many elites.

The Smith Intelligence Group can judge that the crisis is in sight, and they have no reason not to see it.

In fact, many people have seen it, but everyone is powerless or unwilling to stop it.

Everyone was thinking that before the tsunami came, they could go ashore ahead of time. It doesn't even matter if you push other people into the sea for this.

In Wall Street, a place where everyone is a refined self-interested person, even if there are natural disasters and disasters, the mentality of the most people here must be that they are dead friends and poor people.

Even all the Taoist friends are dead, and it is better for the poor to eat the corpse and become the number one person in the world.

In view of this, in the discussion that followed, Abel didn't speak much.

He just smiled and listened to everyone's optimism about next year, and their hope that George would be re-elected with a high probability.

And these, judging from the current situation, do seem to be the case.

At the end of the chat, around 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m., everyone gradually dispersed.

By now, this family banquet is over.

Next, everyone will go back to their own places, work when they should work, those who should go abroad, and those who should continue to enjoy themselves will continue to enjoy themselves.

But Abel was left behind by George and Herbert, and there were only three of them in the Oval Office this time.

Members of the shrub family and relatives understand this, too.

Herbert is the true core of the Bush family, and George is the current engine of the Bush family.

And Abel is currently the most powerful external support for the shrub family.

The three of them can decide the future of this political gang.

As for everyone else, opinions matter though. But when it's against the whole group, it's better to listen to the three of them.

Even Abel's father-in-law and father, the two congressmen on Capitol Hill, are the same.

The two of them are in this gang, and they can only be said to be newcomers in terms of seniority.

"Dear Abel, you seem to disagree."

After everyone left, only the son and Abel were left in the office.

The old bush walked up to the huge French windows and opened the curtains that had blocked the sunlight.

The curtains are custom-made by Auchan Curtain Co., Ltd. in France, and the color is Herbert's favorite red and white stripes.

In fact, the current curtains in the Oval Office are the same style that Herbert replaced when he was working here.

It was once replaced by Zipperton with his favorite style after Zipperton took the stage.

Later, after Herbert's son replaced Zipperton again, George reinstalled the curtain cloth that Dad loved in the White House warehouse.

After the curtains were opened, the afternoon sun shone in, brightening the Oval Office as a whole.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see the South Garden below, the Potomac River not far away, and the famous tidal lake Taidou Lake.

These were all Herbert's favorite views when he was working here. During work breaks, he likes to stand here and overlook the cityscape of Washington.

After Herbert spoke, George also stared at Abel in surprise. He didn't know why Abel had a different opinion.

"Um, what can I say? I can only say that it's you, Herbert." Abel couldn't help laughing after being startled.

Sure enough, he is indeed the most important person in the shrub family to this point.

In the past, Abel didn't really believe in the maturity of human beings. He only thought that human beings are carbon-based creatures after all, and their bodies are made of flesh.

With the aging of all aspects of the body, the cells in the body continue to die, but the regenerative capacity is not as sufficient as when we were young.

The older a person is, the worse his memory, logical thinking ability, and observation ability will be, so he will only get older and more confused.

But now, his grandfather Alex, Herbert in front of him, and that old guy Rockefeller, these old people made him aware.

This kind of thing is established to a certain extent.

Because of memory and other abilities, they will indeed decline with the aging of the body.

But the experience accumulated over the years is enough to offset this degradation to some extent.

As long as this kind of offset is still before experience and experience are more dominant, then these old people are still very powerful in this respect.

"Yes. I'm not that optimistic about George's situation next year. And the reason is the judgment of my Smith Wisdom brain trust."

Abel pushed the reason on the Smith Intelligence Group. He can't say that because he is a reborn, he knows that there will be a terrible financial crisis in the future, right?

"Is it the subprime mortgage issue, and the series of economic problems that may follow?" Herbert asked.

Abel nodded, and before he could speak, George smiled and said, "Oh, that's the problem. My staff have also told me about this problem. But they said that although the situation will be very bad, But it will not appear until the next year at the earliest. Although the future is very bad, the most critical moment has passed at that time. So even if the future that everyone does not want to see happens, I think in It’s not going to have a huge impact on that.”

Abel nodded, but he said, "What if it happens earlier? It doesn't happen until the next year, but at the end of next year or even in the middle of the year?"

"As of June this year, the total amount of financial products related to subprime loans in the United States has reached 2 trillion U.S. dollars, 1.1 times that of mortgage loans. This figure was more than 80 billion U.S. dollars three years ago."

"The federal real estate market has continued to rise since 1997. It has grown more rapidly since 2001, and its share of GDP rose from 15.9% at the end of 2001 to 17.7% at the end of last year. My analysts told me that this year it may exceed 18% %, this is a very exaggerated proportion. And the proportion of residential investment in total investment this year will not be lower than 22%. Since 2001, the annual growth rate of new housing starts has never been lower than 6%, and this year is even more likely More than 8%."

After telling a lot of data, Abel shrugged and waved his hands lightly as he looked at the father and son who had serious faces in front of them:

"All of us know that disaster is coming. But all of us feel that disaster is still far away. I always like to start thinking about how to avoid danger when I am still safe. George, Herbert, I think it should be the same next year. We need to think about some of the things we need to do when things get bad."

To be honest, Herbert and George haven't read Abel's judgment and these data.

As the owner of the White House, even more accurate data George has seen.

The predictions and judgments of staff and think tanks are even more sensational than Abel's.

But the same words and the same content have different weight when spoken by different people.

If these words were replaced by other people, what they said in front of the father and son, they would definitely just laugh it off.

Because they've seen worse forecasts too.

But these words are now spoken by Abel, a big capitalist in the country and an important mainstay of the shrub family. The situation and meaning are different.

They had to take it seriously, and even had to consider whether Abel had gotten wind of it.

Or... this is the future that Abel wants to see?

Herbert nodded with a serious face:

"Abel is right. When it is safe, we must consider how to avoid future crises. This seems to be a proverb in the East? We should really consider this, George, and we must rule out the risks in this regard. "

George opened his mouth, and obediently took back the questioning words that he wanted to say but didn't say.

Now not only Abel said so, even his omnipotent father thought so.

George felt that maybe the situation was really not good, and maybe some preparations were really needed.

George W. Bush has many shortcomings, but his strengths are also very clear.

For example, he is very friendly, easy-going, and easy to be liked by people around him.

For example, he is very self-aware, and he will never make good claims on things he doesn't understand, but is willing to listen to the opinions of those around him.

"Okay." George's face also became serious, and his smile disappeared completely: "I will let everyone start to make plans in this regard and make preparations for related aspects. After all..."

"I want to stay here for a few more years!"