Chapter 1407

In addition to the Westeros system, at the macro level, the biggest excitement in October, in addition to the presidential lace still chased by the Republicans, is the large-scale publicity for the first fiscal surplus year of the United States after 29 years since 1969.

This is naturally the work of the Democratic Party.

In the just past federal fiscal year from October 1997 to September 1998, the annual fiscal revenue of the United States was $1.72 trillion, the annual actual fiscal expenditure was $1.65 trillion, and finally a fiscal balance of $69.2 billion was obtained.

After the data were released on October 16, just as the Republicans spent tens of millions of dollars advertising the president's scandal, the Democrats also invested a lot of resources to widely publicize the news, so as to emphasize Clinton. Of course, this time is mainly the dazzling achievements of the Democratic Party in the U.S. economy since it took office for six years.

Compared with the zipper door that has caused people's aesthetic fatigue, the financial and economic data closely related to itself can obviously move people's hearts.

According to the statistics of some polling institutions, just one weekend after October 16, the support rate of the Democratic Party increased by about five percentage points in just three days in the new week. The white house immediately seized this data and made a decisive attack to try to reverse Clinton's increasingly depressed popularity due to the continuous scandal in the past year.

In the final analysis, everything is for the 1998 mid-term elections to be held on 3 November.

For power.

The Westeros system will inevitably be affected.

Or about blockbuster.

After Simon made a big move, especially the dazzling annual financial report of danilis entertainment was released again. Considering the current terrorist volume of danilis entertainment, everyone knows that if blockbuster is really determined to expand again, it will not be easy for peer rental manufacturers or major production giants in the future.

Finally choose compromise.

The parties finally reached an agreement on October 22, witnessed by the Ministry of justice.

Then, the matter was stuck in the Ministry of justice.

Clinton personally asked someone to send a message to Simon that the mid-term election will be right away. The democratic party really doesn't want too many accidents to happen. Danilis Entertainment's acquisition of blockbuster and the further rise of oligarchs are undoubtedly an accident that can easily provoke public sentiment. The wangonghe party challenged the Democratic Party on this matter, accusing the White House of allowing the merger between giants too much in the past few years, resulting in industry monopoly, which will inevitably damage the support rate.

In short, we have to wait until after November 3.

Simon can only accept it.

Not only that, Clinton also hopes Simon can release the repression of the NASDAQ index, so that the NASDAQ index can break through the 4000 point mark again before November 3.

New technology and the Internet are also the main achievements of Clinton since he took office.

The two sides had an agreement at the beginning of the year.

In order to support the Democratic Party, Simon promised to allow the NASDAQ to reach about 4000 points by the end of 1998.

Now it is equal to hoping that this figure will be two months ahead of schedule.

Simon thought about it and agreed.

In fact, I can't hold it down.

You know, Simon and Clinton reached a tacit understanding in March at the beginning of the year. At that time, the NASDAQ had broken through 3600 points again, not far from 4000 points.

In order to prevent the new technology market from falling into a frenzy again, Simon also launched a round of reduction plan again. As of October, he recovered $13 billion again through several reduction in half a year, and suppressed the rapid rise of the NASDAQ to a certain extent.

But only to a certain extent.

Simon can feel that after the Asian financial crisis, the new technology market, which collapsed three years earlier, began to recover in only one year. In addition, a large amount of overseas funds hit by the financial crisis poured into the United States to avoid risks and another relaxation cycle implemented by the Federal Reserve, the NASDAQ index returned to its previous track again.

Moreover, compared with the castles in the air where the Internet had only concept and lack of performance in the 1990s, this time, Westeros system has laid a solid foundation for the industry in advance with its own strength. The fundamentals continue to develop and become more and more solid. It is conceivable that if there is no accident, this time the NASDAQ bull market cycle will last longer.

Therefore, the key this time should be whether a big accident will happen again.

In any case, on October 19, when danilis entertainment released the annual financial report of fiscal year 1998, coupled with the positive stimulus of another fiscal surplus year 29 years later last Friday, the U.S. stock market rose sharply. Among them, the NASDAQ index reached 3937 points at the close of the day. In the following days, it did not fall back and adjust, but after Simon gave up repression, Easily broke the 4000 point mark.

As a result, it has become a highlight of the performance hyped by the democratic camp again.

New York.

A golf course in Huntington, northwest of Long Island.

Time unknowingly came to October 24.

Saturday.

Simon came to the east coast yesterday. In addition to his routine work, today he was invited to play golf with Jack Welch, the head of General Electric. Welch mainly wanted to communicate with Simon about some recent things, such as danilis's upcoming DHO cable station, the ownership of TV broadcasting copyright of DC film universe, and blockbuster.

After winning Time Warner and integrating NBC's assets, Ge is actually the second largest media and entertainment giant in the world. Media and entertainment has also entered the main business category of Ge and is no longer the marginal sideline of NBC.

Jack Welch is also very concerned about this part of the business and has personally dealt with many things.

Facing Welch's inquiry, Simon's attitude is also very clear.

DHO is sure to be on the meeting. Cable TV is the future of the federal television field. The growth of the market scale of pay cable stations is also visible to the naked eye. Danilis entertainment can't give up this part of business. Moreover, obviously, after DHO goes online, danilis will certainly reduce the content authorization of HBO, which is also a matter of course. She will do it for anyone.

As for the TV broadcasting right of DC film project, Simon didn't force it. That's what he said. Do it according to the contract.

Danilis will not maliciously raise the price in order to strive for the TV broadcasting right of DC films. However, compared with the past, if HBO wants to obtain the broadcasting right again, it must appropriately increase the quotation, otherwise DHO will certainly sell.

In short, the next step is for both sides to rely on their abilities.

Simon suck up this company, mainly for further layout of online leasing and future streaming media, and there is no intention to monopolize the market. The key is to see other competitors give up.

These are expected. Jack Welch didn't say much. He just hopes Simon can keep his promise and give everyone a relatively fair competition environment.

In fact, Welch has never forgotten Simon's intention to take over Ge.

Welch, 63, has planned to retire in 2001 after his current term. Welch has devoted his whole life to GM. the most important thing he has done in recent years is to select the next leader for GM. if everything else is put aside, Simon is undoubtedly a suitable successor from the perspective of pure enterprise development.

Unfortunately, this matter is not realistic after all.

The current scale of westero system is too large for many people to feel depressed and afraid. If Ge, an industrial giant called a federal town artifact, is handed over to each other, Simon westero is probably not too far from becoming the de facto king of the United States.

Therefore, Welch has always tried to forget it, just as westero never said it.

Simon didn't mention it again.

Although Westeros has always maintained the position of holding more than 5% of GE's shares as a major shareholder, it's not urgent. There's plenty of time to wait for Welch, who has too high prestige, to step down.

The two sides talked about some business, and the topic inevitably turned to the most lively issue of the recent mid-term election.

Seeing Simon hit a ball, Welch, as a master, saw the white ball fly out askew. He couldn't find the direction if he wanted to compliment or even comfort. He could only ignore it and said, "Simon, maybe you already know that this year's Forbes 400 rich list in the United States, oh, it should have been raised this month. In order to avoid the mid-term election, he moved to next month."

Simon took the club and Welch to the next hitting point, smiled and said, "you know, I greet Steve Forbes myself."

Welch was a little surprised.

Simon smiled: "the Forbes family supports the Republicans. If the Democrats want to say hello, Steve Forbes won't listen."

Welch reacted and said with a smile, "speaking, I support the Republican Party."

"It is personal freedom to support which party, even within the Westeros system, I will not make any restrictions on it," Simon said freely. "After all, everyone is for a common ideal to make this country better."

"You're right," Welch obviously agreed, nodded and asked, "what do you think of this annual surplus?"

"In many ways, the improvement of the economy is one reason, but it is not the main reason," Simon said in the face of Welch. He would not pull the cliches in the media to whitewash the ruling achievements of the Democratic Party. "No accident, there may be a surplus for one or two years in the future, but in the future, the deficit is still inevitable."

"Yes, after leaving the gold standard, printing money is too easy, and the federal deficit is inevitable." Welch nodded and then shook his head: "I occasionally wonder if it will become more and more serious as a drug addiction. If an individual is in debt for a long time, the result will only be bankruptcy. In fact, the country is the same. Moreover, once the country goes bankrupt, the collapse will only be more tragic."

"Unless we immediately return to the gold standard or voluntarily give up the global monetary attribute of the US dollar..." Simon shrugged: "this outcome is basically inevitable."

Welch listened to Simon and couldn't help stopping: "Simon, as the richest man in the Federation, you shouldn't want to see this happen?"

"The problem is, Jack, I am pessimistic about human nature and the world."

Welch couldn't help smiling bitterly: "so, you implement the 3G plan and even want to escape the planet at some of the most pessimistic moments, don't you?"

"Yes, not all," Simon said: "People are selfish, so am I. So, if one day, I hope myself, or my descendants, can avoid it. Moreover, although I am very pessimistic about the world, I can also see that with the continuous progress of human society, the stone age, bronze age, iron age, up to now, industrial age, information age, and the degree of civilization are also true We are making continuous progress. Therefore, I hope to create a possibility through the 3G plan, a possibility to bring human society into the next civilized era. "

Welch listened carefully to Simon, nodded slightly, and inexplicably thought of the expectation of the young people around him.

If... All this is true, perhaps the most correct choice is to hand over Ge to the other party.

Thinking so, he unknowingly reached the next hitting point. Welch's attitude towards golf has always been rigorous, so he put aside his just thought, judged the terrain, looked for an angle, and swung the ball.

In fact, Simon has explained his ideas with many people. Of course, it's not for Welch to let the other party hand over Ge to himself. He just wants to be recognized. At least when he implements some plans, these elites at the top of the pyramid won't hold him back. That's enough.

Obviously, Simon's words touched Welch. The legendary CEO stopped worrying about the mid-term election and spent the rest of his time discussing more details of the 3G plan and the future outlook for the development of human science and technology with Simon.

So until the evening, when the two sides separated, Welch also made it clear that GE would cooperate with Westeros system to the greatest extent in nuclear fusion research and the development of the next generation space shuttle. Therefore, he also took the initiative to ask Simon to send a team to further negotiate the details of cooperation.

Simon certainly won't refuse.

After saying goodbye to Welch, Simon didn't go to Huntington's recently renovated manor for some psychological reason, but rushed to a property in nearby glenkov.

It has been arranged in advance.

When Simon arrived, the housekeeper angrey Davis had welcomed him here. In addition, the group of Korean girls who had been hung up by Simon for more than a month, eight carefully selected women's group girls, and 16 supporting Korean Weijia waitresses, all of which were at a pleasing level of 80 points.

Simon would have forgotten if the housekeeper hadn't mentioned it last night.

Since I mentioned it, I happen to have no other arrangements tonight, so I'll enjoy it.

Simon got off in the small square in front of the main villa and said hello to the housekeeper. Seeing the Korean girl with exquisite face and figure beside angri, Simon walked to the villa and asked, "what's your name?"

The girl followed Simon step by step, bowed slightly as she walked, and asked Simon to say in quite standard Chinese: "Kim Su min, Mr. westlow, my name is Kim Su min."