The Goddess Shines on America

When the first snow of winter fell on New York State, it happened to be November 22, only 11 days later than November 11. This heavy snowfall was far more severe than what the meteorological station reported. When many residents woke up overnight, they were all surprised to find that the whole city seemed to have turned into a snow-covered northern city. Even Toronto could not compare. .

"The temperature is low today. Please prepare for the cold, and pay attention to the arrival of heavy snow. In addition, a cold air from the North Atlantic Ocean..."

The rebroadcast of yesterday's weather forecast was broadcast on the TV, and now it is indeed true. Lying on the sofa in the living room of his bachelor apartment in Queens, New York, Harry Poness, who just got up, was eating potato chips after dinner, while Switching repeatedly on various stations, listening to news from various channels.

Recently, Harry, who was just in his early twenties, found a job, using his superb computer skills to do regular maintenance for the computers of the New York Stock Exchange. Because he showed his unparalleled ability in front of the executives, he even had a privilege. He only had to go to the exchange every three days, and his salary was still calculated as a monthly salary.

According to Harry's judgment, his job is obviously the result of the incident in March this year. Although from the point of view of a single incident, IBM's case has been lost one after another not long ago, and finally ended after losing tens of millions of dollars to Microsoft and Nasdaq respectively, but the whole world as a whole can be regarded as disturbed by this incident. Turned upside down.

It is from May, starting with the Nasdaq Exchange itself, New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, these world-class large stock exchanges have all started a wave of large-scale recruitment of senior programmers, and there is no Any one is not paying a very high salary.

Even according to Harry's knowledge, those college students majoring in computer science who graduated in June this year, especially Stanford and other famous Ivy League schools, suddenly ushered in a wave of job hunting. Not only the major exchanges, but also many investment companies on Wall Street, and many companies that have a deep relationship with the Internet are also spending huge sums of money to recruit network administrators, and the higher the degree, the more exaggerated the salary increase. There is a posture of academicism!

For a while, when September came again, the computer departments of various colleges and universities even ushered in a round of enrollment boom. When many fresh high school students learn that those seniors who are four years older than their university can easily enter some quite high-end companies after graduation with a certificate in computer science, there seems to be no suspense in choosing a major.

Harry is such a beneficiary. As a New York University dropout, he was still a little worried about getting a job. You know, because of the fact that I dropped out of school, although the parents at home didn't say anything, they were definitely disappointed. Well now, it's easy to solve!

Therefore, at a young age, Harry has the capital to go to work every three days, and it usually only takes half a day to finish work. Working 30 hours a month, but receiving a huge monthly salary, he can die laughing in his dreams recently!

"Hmm...it doesn't seem to be anything interesting."

At this moment, he was lazily sitting on the sofa. After breakfast, when all the office workers in New York were struggling on the way to the morning rush hour, he was worried about not knowing which TV program to watch.

"Let's take a look at Japan Observer."

After thinking about it, it seemed that it was time for the program to start, so Harry changed the channel to a certain station.

"Japan Observer" is a program launched three years ago, that is, around 1983, which happened to be the moment when the Japanese economy began to boom. The program is weekly and is dedicated to observing the country's economic development in real time. Of course, the relevant cultural industry trends will also be mentioned occasionally. The development of Japanese animation became a topic, and a special program was made.

As for this program, after it started, Harry clearly discovered that it was devoted to introducing Japanese investment in the United States.

“We are currently facing a worrying situation, believe it or not, from November last year to the same period this year, Japan has invested a total of three billion US dollars in our Hawaii, specifically for real estate investment.”

The host on TV said anxiously: "According to the statistics of our reporter's visit to Hawaii, in just this year, one-third of the luxury hotels in the Pearl Harbor beach area, as well as a large number of buildings, large restaurants and shopping centers , as well as two entire golf courses, as well as many livestock farms and plantations, are already under the management of Japanese capital."

"According to statistics, from November 1980 to the same period in 1986, Japan's direct investment in the United States has increased by about eight times. Financial forces already account for 25% of the daily trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange!"

"We can't help but think, is America really going to go down? Is the country of the sun in the east really going to rise and buy our whole country as they wish?"

When the show saw this, Harry changed the channel before the experts invited to start speaking.

"The nonsense is just trying to create a negative image of Japan among the public."

With such a sneer, Harry changed the channel back, and the new guest was an expert on Japan, who began to make rounds of judgments about his purchases and purchases during this period.

"It is true to say that the current investment focus is on real estate."

Ignoring the experts on TV, Harry muttered to himself: "When a country's economy develops, it will definitely experience a wave of real estate, but it is obvious that it will definitely plummet."

If there is any difference between Harry and other students, it is that he knows how to use various channels to understand countless things that ordinary people don't care about at all. After a long time, you can even call yourself a miscellaneous scholar. He understood the concept of financial bubbles as early as the sixth grade. The current situation in Japan is obviously a real estate bubble!

You must know that for most countries, even if the real estate bubble really occurs, it will only skyrocket at most one or two times in a very long period of time, and the speed and extent of Japan have already surpassed this level. Almost anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a typical bubble shape.

Just like the United States, when Harry was bored earlier, he investigated the history of real estate prices in the United States because of the incident in Japan.

He went back a hundred years and set the price at 100 in 1890 as a standard, and it was around 120 in 1900, and then fell back to its original position within a few months. During the Great Depression in the 1920s and 1930s, housing prices fell to a low of 60 or 70. During World War II, the effects of Roosevelt’s New Deal were even erased, and they have been hovering in this range. But with the arrival of the golden age, the price rose steadily immediately, and it returned to the level of 1900 in an instant.

That's right, Harry clearly found that, except for the 40% plunge during the Great Depression, for a whole hundred years, the housing prices in the United States have always remained in the range of a 10% increase or decrease, that is, after entering the 1980s , the instant peak broke through above 20%, and then fell back within a few months.

But look at what the hell is going on in Japan now?

In 1985, Tokyo's commercial land price index was 120, but now, just a year later, its price has soared by more than 60%!

If Harry remembers correctly, it seems that at the beginning of this year, it was still at the 20% level?

God, even if the United States is experiencing the Great Depression, it will only plummet by 40%! ?

It took Japan half a year to achieve a 60% surge! ?

And the momentum is not over yet! ?

Harry had already told his buddies on the Internet that if this wasn't a bubble, he would be off the Internet from now on!

Oh yes, Harry has always been a self-styled geek. The so-called geek originally refers to the semantic meaning of superior intelligence and hard work, but now it is used to describe people who have a fanatical interest in computer and network technology and devote a lot of time to study. What new meaning it will have in the future is a matter for the future, as far as Harry feels now, he certainly deserves the title.

Therefore, running freely on the Internet as a hacker has of course become an indispensable hobby.

In fact, Harry gave himself a very interesting code name, called HP.

Speaking of which, as early as two years ago, Harry met a kid on the Internet. The other person's nickname was KM, a rather arrogant guy who claimed to have invaded the North American air defense command system many years ago.

Harry and Zeng KM discussed the IBM matter, analyzed the technical feasibility, and even went to the Nasdaq exchange network in person. It turns out that if they are willing to spend some time carefully studying the relevant program logic, they can really affect the system's statistical results of collective bidding!

However, just as Harry was gloating at IBM, KM came up with an ingenious idea.

"Could it be that there are other super hackers who deliberately hacked IBM?"

This idea can exist, and this idea can really exist. After the two of them have proved the possibility of such a measure together, the authenticity of such a guess will naturally increase infinitely. It's no surprise that IBM's masters can do it, but since the two folks can do it too...

In the entire American society, how many malicious computer experts are hidden in it?

It is a pity that Harry has not seen KM online recently. He clearly agreed that when we meet next time, he will greet himself with a picture of a beautiful woman made up of the number 8, but now there is no picture.

What is KM doing?

Harry said he was really interested.