Chapter 1420

In the car to qingwatai, Simon ignored reading the Forbes magazine he got before leaving, opened his mouth slightly and frequently glanced at his Jiangshan dance. First, he opened a briefing document on important matters of the day and looked at it slowly.

The first is a message from North America.

As a follow-up to the disastrous defeat of the Republican Party in the mid-term election on November 3, Newt Gingrich, the leader of the Republican Party and speaker of the house of Representatives, announced his resignation on the morning of Sunday, November 8 local time, which can be regarded as taking responsibility for the disastrous defeat of the Republican party in this year's mid-term election.

Newt Gingrich has been in politics since the late 1960s. He has been in politics for 30 years, but now he is only 55 years old. He was in his prime of life. Unfortunately, since he became speaker of the house of representatives in 1995, Gingrich has promoted the government from the budget conflict in 1995 to the fierce pursuit of the Clinton scandal in the past year.

In three years, from Clinton's easy re-election in 1996 to the defeat in this year's mid-term election, the facts only proved that Gingrich's party struggle strategy was a serious mistake.

Compared with Clinton's dedication to invigorating the U.S. economy, the Republican Party has been criticized in recent years because it has never put forward a perfect political platform that can attract voters since 1992, when Bush Sr. sought re-election, Instead, he spent most of his time attacking the new President Bill Clinton, who suddenly rose to a high position from a red necked background at the bottom.

It can be said that the failure of the mid-term election made the Republican Party fully aware of its own problems and began to correct them.

While Newt Gingrich resigned, in fact, Simon also read the sample manuscript in advance, and the seemingly rich and detailed feature articles are also the result of repeated review by the Westeros family media and public relations team, including the previous cover photos, and even psychologically considering the readers' sensory feedback.

All this is for subtle influence.

Simon westero's $1.8 trillion is nothing... It has nothing to do with himself... It's what the other party deserves... It comes from high technology rather than traditional exploitation... And so on.

In short, it is a great public opinion guidance project.

For Simon, for the whole Westeros family, Simon is far from as easy as it seems. He holds such a huge fortune and controls the largest business empire on the planet. Simon is always alert to himself, trembling and walking on thin ice.

Let's talk about the topic before us.

The article still gives a general figure of $100 billion.

After all, Simon has recovered more than $10 billion in cash only after continuous reduction this year, and core enterprises such as danilis entertainment with a record annual profit of more than $7.6 billion in the past fiscal year have also contributed a lot of cash to the whole Westeros system and the Westeros family.

Taking into account the accumulation in previous years, $100 billion is also a fairly conservative figure.

Simon himself certainly knows better. Not to mention the disposable cash reserves held by various companies, but the private cash and gold accumulated on the book of Westeros and the Westeros family, which is now more than $60 billion. This is the result of Simon's continued extravagance in the past year after promoting the 3G plan.

Taking into account the cash and short-term convertible equivalent reserves of danilis, igrit, melisandra and other companies in Westeros system, this figure should be about 130 billion US dollars.

Moreover, it is still the result of Simon's efforts to spend money around the world.

There's no way. Due to the Matthew effect, the westrow system has developed to the present. As a result, it is easier and easier to make money, because in addition to its own volume, relevant enterprises, channels and information, it is absolutely crushing compared with ordinary companies and even individuals.

Then there is the increasingly prominent overseas investment in recent years.

Simon's investment in overseas markets such as China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Russia and Australia in recent years, although the current scale is not significant, on the whole, it still reaches the level of tens of billions of dollars.

In this regard, Forbes magazine did not give accurate figures, but just mentioned a company like BHP Billiton.

After listing the shareholding companies, cash reserves and overseas layout, the land, real estate and other real estate under Simon's name, which has been paid attention to in the past, is irrelevant.

So, after subtracting the same general debt figure directly attributable to the Westeros family, Forbes gives an obviously conservative personal wealth figure of $1.8 trillion,

Of course, with the authority established by Forbes magazine for a long time, since it gives the figure of 1.8 trillion, whether it is conservative or not accurate, it will only become a consensus in the impression of major mainstream media and even the public, which is the power to master the right to speak.

As for the apparent right to speak, it is not external humanity because it is affected by the Westeros system.

In fact, if you don't understand that Forbes doesn't mention it, it will certainly be listed by other media. There won't be such a 7-page special report at all.

After listing the specific sources of the figure of $1.8 trillion, there are several sub headings.

The first is the changes in the investment landscape of Westeros system in recent years.

Two areas were highlighted, the pharmaceutical sector and the overseas market.

Pfizer is a typical representative in the pharmaceutical field. When Westeros system joined the company in early 1996, Pfizer's market value was only about US $27 billion. As of last Friday, it was less than three years. With the continuous mergers and acquisitions in the past two years and the unexpected hot sales of Pfizer's new drug "Viagra", of course, there was also the upward bull market trend of the US economy as a whole, Pfizer's market value reached the latest $111.6 billion, and its share price more than tripled in less than three years.

Pfizer is just a typical example.

Typical of the overall rise in the pharmaceutical field and the successful investment of Westeros system.

Pfizer also said that it has won 10.3% of the shares in a row. Simon invested less than $5 billion before and after. In more than two years, it has more than doubled.

In addition, in addition to Gilead and other companies that are still growing quietly, Simon has continued to buy American pharmaceutical giants such as Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Warner Lambert in the past few years. At present, the shareholding ratio is more than 5%. Warner Lambert even experienced the confrontation between Westeros system and Mellon family. In more than two years, the share price has nearly quadrupled, with a market value of more than $50 billion.

Then there is the overseas market.