Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 800.

Washington, USA.

The date is Tuesday, August 27th.

Bill Clinton, who has quietly been sleeping in a separate room from Hillary in the private area of the East Wing of the White House presidential family, got up early today and sat in the dining room, eating while still unable to resist flipping through the latest issue of Forbes magazine that was just released yesterday.

It's not just the jaw-dropping $1.5 trillion personal fortune of the young man at the top of the list, the entire list, that's sobering.

Especially the top ten on the list.

First Place: Simon Westeros, 1.5 trillion.

Second place: bill gates, $97.1 billion.

Third: Claire Gein, $29.5 billion.

Fourth: Neil Brantley, $29.5 billion.

Fifth: Paul Allen, $18.6 billion.

Sixth: Tim Berners-Lee, $17.8 billion.

Seventh: Jeff Bezos, $17.8 billion.

Eighth: Carol Bartz, $17.8 billion.

Ninth: Larry Ellison, $15.5 billion.

Fourth: Warren Buffett, $13.9 billion.

The top ten richest people in the United States, the first is really a bizarre demon star guy and not to mention, other people, personal wealth are all into the $10 billion period.

That's not the point.

Most importantly, nine of the ten super-rich, all but one Warren Buffett, have most of their fortunes from the new technology sector. And this tendency is even more pronounced in the entire list of 400.

It seemed as if suddenly a whole new era was raging.

It was only 7:30 after breakfast when Attorney General Janet Reno of the Clinton cabinet rushed to the White House for a final discussion with Mr. President in response to this morning's 9:00 a.m. briefing.

The latest Forbes list was released yesterday, and in the face of the media frenzy, much can't be put off any longer.

Because also yesterday, August 26th, the four-day Democratic National Convention was officially held in Atlanta, Georgia, the site of this session, and sort of riding the wind of some Olympics just ending, Clinton didn't have to attend the entire convention as an incumbent president, but two days later, on August 29th, she also had to go in person to give a speech and formally accept the party's nomination.

Right after that is the Republican National Convention, August 30 to September 3.

These eight days are considered the complete end of the presidential preliminaries, and the official general election sprint will open way after the Republican nomination is announced on Sept. 3.

While a lot of things will settle down and basically not change too much in these days, the fight never stops.

Having determined to take the initiative to take on the Westeros system in order to avoid passivity, after all these days of preparation, and taking advantage of the release of the Forbes list of America's 400 richest people, today is also a very appropriate time to officially 'declare war' in order to have the best effect on public opinion and leave the Republican Party with nothing to say.

After discussing it for most of the half hour, Janet Reno hurriedly left.

9:00 AM.

The U.S. Department of Justice held a press conference, chaired by Attorney General Janet Reno, to formally announce that it would reopen its investigation into a series of alleged monopolistic practices at Igret because Igret did not perform well under an agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice in late 1994.

The investigation focuses on illegal practices between IGRIT's software and network divisions such as using market dominance to force users to use their own Internet software and cloud computing services, unfair competition brought about by the monopoly of the Internet Explorer interface, and the use of market dominance to maliciously suppress competitors.

Despite the three-hour time difference between the East and West coasts, the head of IGRIT's East Coast division responded immediately after the U.S. Department of Justice's press conference, expressing regret over the DOJ's investigation of IGRIT.

The Ygritte portal also posted a more detailed response and self defense on its own website simultaneously.

The period between the Verizon Telecom listing and the DOJ's launch of the investigation was only 10 days, 10 days is actually enough time for those who should know to know about the White House's plans, so the general public was quite taken aback by the launch, but it was no secret at all to Wall Street or Silicon Valley.

In response to this news event, everyone is more concerned, or because of this investigation, the possible impact on the Nasdaq story.

Including the White House.

As the originator, no one is more concerned than Clinton, once the investigation accidentally burst the technology stock bubble, resulting in a stock market crash, then, the next few months, he definitely will not be too easy, even at this time the polls are far ahead of the situation to lose re-election opportunities are not impossible.

The good news is that in advance of the risk assessment, the White House aides believe that just launch an investigation, there is no substantive action for the time being, and will not cause too obvious impact on the Nasdaq, and, choose the "Forbes" magazine announced the new year in the United States 400 richest person list the next day to announce the investigation news, also due to this consideration.

The list of America's 400 richest people will certainly have a positive impact on the technology stock market, and therefore can largely offset the negative effects of this survey.

This press conference began at 9 o'clock and lasted 20 minutes, and immediately afterwards, at 9:30 a.m., the U.S. stock market opened.

It was a straight downward curve.

In just five minutes, the Nasdaq fell from 5,263 to 5,134, down 1.9 percent, nearly 2 percent.

You know, with the total market capitalization of the Nasdaq market at this time has reached 6 trillion dollars, 1.9% decline, which seems not much, but also means that in just five minutes, more than 100 billion dollars of wealth gone to waste.

On the other hand, the share price of Ygritte, the most immediate target, was inevitably affected a bit more severely than the broader market after the opening bell, but in five minutes, compared to the broader market's 1.9% decline, Ygritte's share price was down only 2.6%, and even if this also meant that nearly $10 billion of book value wealth was rapidly disappearing, it was completely under control.

While everyone was on tenterhooks, after a brief dip, the Nasdaq resumed its rally, as did Ygritte's share price, and the imagined sell-off spree did not materialize.

After half an hour of this, 30 minutes into the open, the Nasdaq was back above 5,200, and countless people breathed a sigh of relief when Igret's stock price fell back to within 2% of its value.

The first response, immediately, was a Republican backlash.

Bob Dole, the inside-the-Beltway Republican presidential candidate who launched his personal website with Who's Trending, took to the air himself and published a blog post around 10:00 a.m. slamming Clinton for launching an investigation into Ygritte at this time as a complete bluff and a cover for his own serious tactical missteps against the new tech industry over the past few years.

Bob Dole also said that once he is elected, he will take real drastic measures to steer the new tech industry and avoid the rise of the wealth dividend of the information age to a few.

It must be said that the Republican candidate chose to build his own website, the choice is still IBM's web services platform, completely with the Westeros system to draw a line, obviously the results of careful consideration, and this statement, taking advantage of yesterday's "Forbes" U.S. 400 richest person list released the east wind, also hit the nail on the head.

It's a common problem for almost everyone to suffer from inequality rather than scarcity.

Many people don't think too much about whether they have the ability to compete with the new technology that's rushing in, only to be upset when they see other trendsetters gaining huge amounts of wealth from it.

In any case, if you can't have it yourself, you can't let anyone else have it either.

It's just that, as some may or may not have noticed, Bob Dole's statement didn't name any names, but merely emphasized that he was elected to allow more people to reap the dividends of the new technology industry.

This speech, while it can be very effective in inciting the common man, is basically the same as saying nothing to those who understand.

After all, Bob Dole is only a candidate, even if the other party is still the Senate Majority Leader, and there's not much that can actually be done after all, like the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill that was snatched up by Clinton some time ago, and because of the early move by the White House, the Republican senators who have been running around for a long time to push this bill are literally so angry that they want to spit blood.

The same goes for this first strike against the Westeros system.

In fact, after Clinton decided to make the first move, the Republican Party also quickly received information from the Justice Department, however, still can only dry watch.

Although both houses of Congress also have the power to initiate a variety of judicial investigations, and the Republican Party through the midterm elections two years ago, control of the entire Congress, but, compared to Clinton's absolute authority in the White House, Congress wants to do something, even if you initiate a majority of seats, whether it is a variety of bills or initiate an investigation, it is a long time to pull the skin.

At the very least, 10 days to concoct in advance to launch an investigation into the Westeros system is certainly not enough.

That's why so many people will fight head to head for that White House seat.

Congress has a lot of power, but it's a Congress of hundreds of people.

The White House, for one, is just one man's White House, and because of the absolute power, both the staff team and the cabinet members need to obey Mr. President, as head of state and commander in chief of the three branches of the military, or else, it's firing.

On the other hand, both the sudden investigation launched by the Department of Justice and the last-minute gaming of the Westeros system as a gimmick by both parties in the US in the general election are just a continuation of the world-shattering wealth list released yesterday.

$1.5 trillion!

What size of a fortune this is is completely incomprehensible to too many, too many people, but, in any case, everyone understands that such a batch of wealth is just too big, so big that ...... has created a sense of unease in many people.

And so, the investigation that was launched today by the Justice Department, even though it was picked apart by Bob Dole and many other Republicans and the right-wing media to poke fun at what might have been, but, as soon as someone takes on the Westeros system and takes on that man, then everyone will feel a lot better.

You know, it's not just the young man who's high on the list, the whole list, 400 people, still not counting some of the lesser connected rich like Bill Gates, just the rich who are comparable to the 'Westerosian', compared to last year's 37, and with many newcomers on the list such as B-girls who founded Aria, this year it's quickly To 53 people, that is, one eighth of the group at the top of the wealth pyramid in this country comes from the Westeros system.

How's that for balance!

So, once again, there has been a lot of noise in the public opinion about a wealth tax, and that there should be an additional tax on this top group of people at the top of the pyramid to shrink the wealth inequality in this society.

Only, because the memory of someone's series of risky and tough moves two years ago was still fresh, and because the Westeros system itself was quietly taking another step up in power, both in the media and in politics, and its influence was not what it used to be, this time, when it was brought up again, the response had been far less than it had been two years ago, eliciting even fewer reactions.

Others have even offered the counterargument that if forced deprivation is imposed because some people have too much wealth, it is tantamount to shaking the foundations of a capitalist society.

After all, the United States is not the former Soviet Union.

In addition, the Westeros system will not be indifferent, of course, public opinion guidance even before the release of the "Forbes" list, one of the most important trend, is to begin to criticize the serious bubble of technology stocks, through a variety of real or imaginary data to instill in the public that whether Simon Westeros or other technology stocks wealthy personal wealth is not worthy of the name of most of the bubble. .

The spirit of Q is actually universal all over the world.

Since both Simon Westeros's $1 trillion or the billions and billions of other tech billionaires' fortunes are just bubbles, there's not much to envy.

At the same time, the Westeros system also began to publicize the changes brought by new technology to the public's life, encouraging the public to participate in it, and at the same time, publicized these years by relying on the Internet platform through the release of videos, production of games and other means from ordinary people to millionaires millionaires, in order to tell the public that the Internet is open to anyone, everyone has the opportunity to rely on the Internet to achieve their own The American Dream.

The latest Forbes list has created a buzz that has spread all over the world, including, naturally, China.

And, this time, the list, or rather someone on the list, has sparked the ideas of many in China's upper echelons.

This person ranks 387th on this year's Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans, with a personal fortune of $500 million and a note involving industries that are also popularly known as 'technology'.

The original version of the list gave the tycoon's name as SuLin.

SuLin.

This SuLin, naturally, is the other SuLin.

In the beginning, many people didn't react, and didn't even think in a certain direction, after all, the Forbes list was so high-end, and it was an American list, what does it have to do with the Chinese, until a certain girl who had been deliberately bad from the beginning and had the cooperation of her own boss took the initiative to spread the news, then everyone suddenly came to their senses.

Some Lin Su, it turned out, was a Chinese girl who had just immigrated to the United States only two years earlier.

500 million dollars.

It may not seem like much on the Forbes list, but it's more than 4 billion yuan.

4 billion ah!

At this stage in China, how many people in the mainland can have a wealth of more than 4 billion ah?