Chicago 1990

"He still has the lead. It's right to be conservative..."

The debate went smoothly, and the degree of boredom may be the last in the history of the US elections, and there was no one-sided situation. Everyone noticed that the owner of the Highland Park still stared at the TV screen and said nothing. , So he didn't rush to speak for judgment, but turned his mind quickly, trying to make fewer mistakes in his speech.

It took a long time for Ms. Sloan to break the silence: "But I don't like his smile. I understand that he wants to be more intimate, but... the smile he always keeps looks a bit arrogant on the TV screen. What do you think?"

Gore laughed throughout the debate. The original intention must be good. This will also make him more confident. However, the live TV screen may not be very good to the audience. People's psychology is always subtle, confident and arrogant. Only separated by a wall.

"It seems so." O'Grady of the Northern Trust nodded in agreement, "but George is also a little cautious, a little...sullen?"

"He is trying to avoid weaknesses."

Axelrod, a public relations and campaign expert, said: "He hardly makes eye contact with Gore, and deliberately avoids getting into fierce debates. When speaking, he looks straight into the camera and tells voters what he has to say, even if he completes the task. ."

Senator of Illinois, Michelle's husband also nodded, "The strategy of the Elephant Party team makes George Jr. at least appear sincere."

"So today's end, will the polls on both sides be closer?"

The people present are all elites with a say in campaign affairs. No one wants to show their timidity in front of the black pharaoh. Former White House legal counsel Mikva asked O'Grady: "This is not good news for Mi shares, right?"

"Yes, the current news of Mi Stock, especially the technology and Internet sectors, is positively related to whether Gore can be elected smoothly."

The concept of "he created the Internet" released by the Gore team before the stock market crash, and the concept of "only he can save the Internet" after the stock market crash is considered a success. Silicon Valley and Wall Street are indeed waiting for him to rescue the market after his election. Starting from the end of August, his polls Being chased all the way by George, Nasdaq's market confidence has become increasingly insufficient, and it has fallen sharply for a whole month since the beginning of last month.

If the election debate cannot reopen the gap, it is a failure...

Song Ya winked at Sloan and O'Grady, turned away from the TV, and walked to the study without a word.

YAHOO’s current market value is only one-fifth of its peak at the beginning of the year, and the share prices of listed companies in the Littman family are almost at the lowest point in history. Needless to say, SUN has been falling since the Microsoft strategy came out.

But Microsoft itself is not much better. Song Ya's AOL Time Warner and others were all miserable and miserable.

He was in a bad mood, "Damn it!" When Sloan closed the door, he yelled at her: "Our Jones Stewart and the anchors and talk show hosts on CUU and other stations laugh at little George every day and make fun of his IQ, edit Duan said how stupid he was...today? Didn’t people behave normally in the Quanmi live broadcast!? Now it’s all right! The **** counterproductive effect! Voters will only start to rebel against our previous propaganda! "

"you!"

Sloan frowned, "Blame me? The general direction of the campaign strategy is not my decision. If you want to scold you, you can scold the Donkey Party and Gore's campaign team!"

Song Ya was yelled and shrank his neck and said nothing.

"Okay, okay, stop arguing."

O'Grady happened to see the two being intimate, and quickly acted as a peacemaker. "The first question before us now is whether to start retreating from the rice stock. There is no time to be wasted."

The current logic is this: if Gore is caught up in the polls after the election debate, the Mi shares will definitely continue to plummet, so we must run, run slowly, and wait until the polls of major institutions begin to appear in the media. It may be too late.

Even if Gore can win the election in the end, anyway, he has a strong relationship with Gore and Underwood, Peter Flock and others who may appear in the Gore government in the future. Song Ya is definitely qualified to get the news before the relevant rescue policy comes out, then When Gore takes office early next year, he can find a chance to make up, and he will be a short-term from early October to early January next year.

"When will Taiwan's first polls come out?" Song Ya asked. This time he asked Taiwan to organize telephone and Internet surveys with a small number of samples, barely covering the entire meter.

"Mr. Skinner?" Sloan puffed up the topic and called it to the director.

"This time I might be fooled by Paulson again."

Song Ya took the time to complain to O'Grady: “Goldman Sachs has been sending reports from June to August that it is optimistic about the technology and Internet sectors, which coincides with the market turbulence period. When the second ** decline began in September, they suddenly became quiet. Later. Look, they are likely to quietly finish shipping from June to August, and they switched to short positions from the long commander-in-chief at the end of August. It's ridiculous that we didn't react until a full month!"

"Hehe, you can't believe a word of Goldman Sachs." O'Grady also gritted his teeth.

"Paulson... I will kill you!"

Song Ya secretly swears. The guy said to himself that he would wait for the election debate and watch the polls...should be just to stabilize the excuses of other players, he had nothing to do with the Vivendi Global Battle and the promise of helping them to exchange points for the Fed. value!

The dignified chairman of Goldman Sachs has no credibility at all, and he didn't get the fart news. Paulson's mouth is a deceitful ghost! Oh shit!

"According to the polls currently received, Gore still maintains the lead, but the advantage is already very weak." The results of some polls on the Sloan Report Station said that "Gore has a greater advantage online."

Litman Media’s "Water Army" network information consulting department has recently begun to collect discussions on the Internet about the general election.

Song Ya opened her own blog site and clicked on the homepages of some friends at will. Big bloggers such as Rashida, and entertainment stars such as Jennifer Connelly were forwarding Gore’s Gore2000 campaign poster, and then attached a few words of support. He also called on fans to vote for Gore, which is probably the case with friends in the technology industry and media.

Song Ya was more determined.

The formation in the blog circle of friends is very neat, only the author of Cold Mountain Charles Fraser is playing the opposite tune, he supports the little George of the Elephant Party, and he spit out a long article.

‘I can’t agree with your political views! You are no longer my friend! ’

Nicole Kidman, Charles Fraser's ideal person, left a message in his article, but he has not yet seen a response.

Nicole seems to have deleted her friend. Song Ya followed this message and clicked on her homepage. The home page is a still of her new play "Moulin Rouge". The black low-cut dance dress with big red lips, the whole body is jeweled, and Australia is white. Niu's appearance is even better than that of the Lengshan period, and she is in excellent condition.

The Moulin Rouge is a resource for the Australian and British gangs. It invested in the production of the director Amy and Xiao Li's "Romeo and Juliet Modern" Baz Luhmann. Baz Luhmann's films always show the most beautiful side of women. , Song Ya's thoughts could not help but drift to...

"Wow, your attention is really easy to shift APLUS." Sloan sneered strangely after seeing the content on the computer screen.

Song Ya quickly closed the web page.

"What do we do now? Run?" O'Grady asked.

"let me think again."

Song Ya was lost in thought. The words that the director Skinner said in Paris is the truth. There is a golden mountain in the slightest. He has mastered the media and can get the polls information earlier than the outside world. Although it is certainly not as timely as those large media groups and investigation and consulting agencies, but At least faster than the rice stock small and medium investors and retail investors...

"APLUS?" O'Grady kept looking at his watch, and finally couldn't help but urge.

"Actually, I feel it's too late now." Song Ya sighed and said, "The **** of Goldman Sachs ran away early."

In fact, during this period, he has not only asked Paulson of Goldman Sachs, but also big players with good relationships in the Internet sector such as Morgan Stanley, KPCB, and Green Shirts. Maybe some of them have been quietly turning more empty, maybe They are also pigs kept in the dark to be slaughtered. In short, the second wave of slump has lasted for a month. Who can guarantee that they are not running at a low point now?

Who can guarantee that Goldman Sachs plans to take advantage of the election debate and the polls to make more speculations?

"Mr. Paulson."

He dialed Paulson again. He has been blinded for a month. Now that he has a bit of credibility and conscience... "You said that you should look at the polls after the election debate before making a decision? I feel that the first two debates are the last two. The approval rating of this candidate will be closer."

"Haha, don't worry about APLUS. The third debate is more important. The two candidates in the first game are a little bit too much to let go." Paulson laughed.

"This guy's conscience was eaten by a dog." Song Ya put down the microphone and pointed at the landline.

At this time, the phone rang, and it was Underwood's phone call from Washington to check the polls for the first time.

"Not so good... um, um... no, the deputy commander still has some advantages in the lead." Song Ya also asked Underwood's views on the stock market after a little explanation.

Underwood is generally more optimistic, "This is how the general election goes to the final stage. No matter how small the advantage, even with one vote, we can win in the end, right? APLUS." He said.

Then came the freed Peter.

In short, he asked others, and some people asked him to inquire about the news, so they contacted each other in this way.

It was night before I knew it, and Chicago was getting cold again in early October.

"Want to wait for the third debate before making a decision?"

After sending off Michelle's husband to wait for the guests, O'Grady suggested.

"No, just settle this matter before the beginning of the article. According to this momentum, the stocks will be worthless after a few more trading days." Song Ya shook his head.

"But you only have heavy stocks such as YAHOO, which are difficult to sell, and if you move, it will definitely cause intense feedback from the market." O'Grady said: "This can't be done in just a few trading days. thing……"

"The latest polls."

Dragging, Sloan’s poll data is getting more and more complete. Indeed, Gore’s approval rating has been chased behind the **** by George.

"Sell it, since we planned it before, we will execute it in accordance with the discipline."

Song Ya was relieved instead, shook his head and sighed, "I must be running late, but I have to run too late!"

"OK!" Sloan was very happy with his decision, because it was a good thing for Litman Media.

"I don't need the help of the Tiger Fund this time?" O'Grady used a joking tone to work for the Tiger Fund last time instead of complaining on his side.

"The Tiger Fund is gone," Song Ya replied with a smile.

"So what about YAHOO, SUN...Juniper?" O'Grady asked.

"Sell it too!"

Juniper's stock price is still rising, and it has broken 240. A hardware manufacturer with a market share of only about 15% in the core router segment has a market value of nearly 80 billion dollars. It is too exaggerated. This can not help but make Song. Ya remembered YAHOO at the beginning of the year, "Preferential shots, and those hardware firewall vendors that have risen to the sky."

"Apples..."

"Never mind Apple, in short, the authorization document Song Zecheng signed for you, as long as the shares in the document list are on the list, you will find a chance to sell!" Apple and Nokia and other stocks do not move, long-term investment in Samsung, DTS, and all have apocalypse The halo people didn't move, and the 3DFX and Litman media were of course not moving. Song Ya narrowed his eyes and made a decision.

"Okay!" The three immediately acted separately.

"Litman Media issued an announcement saying that a major event has been announced today and trading has been suspended."

In London, Edison recently lost his head in the rice stock and Nasdaq futures markets. He also realized that he might and should have been stabbed in the back by friendly forces such as Goldman Sachs. "I don't care about these small companies." He handed down the report. He doesn't have the energy to manage these things. "In the polls after the first round of election debates, George is chasing a little bit fiercely. We may have to cut our meat to protect ourselves.

"Go short?"

"It may be late!"

"It's open!"

With the opening of the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, the thriving network hardware equipment business sector collapsed in response to Juniper’s plunge last week. Internet stocks and technology stocks fell across the board, and the impact soon spread from Nasdaq to New York. The stock exchange ~www.NovelMTL.com~The scene of the stock market crash in April seems to have been re-enacted.

"Damn it!" Addison's face turned pale, his previous profit in the Battle of Vivendi was not enough to fill the hole in the first half hour of the stock market. "Let's run too! Run all away! Hurry! Hurry!" He Slapped and rushed into the trading room.

"YES! Hahaha!"

In Manhattan, the atmosphere at Goldman Sachs is like a festive season, and they can enjoy the feast again with a large number of empty orders.

Paulson watched this scene with a smile from the trading room. When he turned his head, he just saw a figure falling down quickly from the opposite building.

'Litman Media announced that they plan to raise a total of $2.2 billion in funds through private placement, equity pledges, etc., to acquire Horton Mifflin, the largest education publishing house in the United States. CEO Ms. Sloan believes that this transaction will benefit Terman Press and Houghton Mifflin have joined forces to consolidate the dominant position of the two companies in the English education publishing market and create greater value for shareholders... It is expected that all transactions will be completed before January 1, 2001. ’

In the doomsday atmosphere of the collapse of the rice stock market, this announcement by Litman Media has become inconspicuous.