Chapter 1,104 Justifiable Robbery

At 18 Broadway Street in New York City, USA, on the south side of the corner of Wall Street, another exclamation came from the hall of the New York Stock Exchange.

The Seattle Trail Blazers, which was originally optimistic by countless investors, fell below the issue price on the day of listing.

This company's business is mainly for exoplanet exploration and finding planets that can be inhabited. Due to its major breakthroughs in space telescope technology, it has been optimistic by industry insiders that it may become the Columbus of the new century. Not long ago, Noah's Ark Fund invested US$200 million in this company, and today it just went public, and something incredible happened.

Although it is not unusual for the U.S. stock market to break the stock price on that day, it is still rare to have a nearly halved decline on the first day of listing, not to mention that it is a company that has been favored by countless people before.

What’s even more incredible is that this is the second Silicon Valley aerospace company to make a hard landing in three days.

"God, you can't do this to me. I put all my belongings on it!" A white man in a suit had bloodshot eyes and squatted on the ground holding his head in pain.

No one sympathized with him. Most of the people standing here felt the same despair.

The performance of the entire Nasdaq sector was very poor, as if all companies related to the aerospace industry were knocked back to their original shape overnight.

I don’t know how many investors’ moods fell to the bottom along with the downward parabola.

Compared with those who use their own money to buy stocks, many of the people standing here are professional managers working for investment banks and funds, including some prominent figures on Wall Street.

At this moment, the expressions on their faces were solemn without exception. They know very well that failure in investment means the end of their careers, which means that their luxury homes may be confiscated by the bank, and they may even be unable to pay off their credit cards. As capitalist hounds, they will be useless once they lose their sense of money.

It's not just Nasdaq.

The Dow Jones Index, known as the barometer of the U.S. economy, is also brewing a storm. Many people who have a premonition of what is about to happen have begun to reduce their holdings of stocks. For this kind of zero-sum game, once the reduction becomes a collective behavior, it will be difficult to control it.

On the same street, not far from the New York Stock Exchange, in the Morgan Stanley Building, Daniel Morgan was looking at the newspaper in his hand with a gloomy look on his face.

Without any warning, he suddenly had a fit and crumpled the newspaper in his hand into a ball, slamming it into the corner of the office.

He shouted angrily.

"Fifty percent defense tax? These shameless bandits, this is a bloody robbery!"

When Starlink Trade tried to win over China, Russia, and Germany to form the Earth Defense Alliance, he didn't take it to heart yet. After all, without the participation of the world's largest economy, what if they could reach an agreement?

If this Earth Defense Alliance is really willing to be on the front line selflessly, he will naturally welcome it with both hands. With the economic strength of only four big countries and more than 20 small countries, if you want to shoulder the burden of defense of extraterrestrial civilizations in one fell swoop, and spend money on defense fortifications and warships without any return, sooner or later you will be unable to bear it.

Once that happens, Wall Street, which holds a lot of capital, will be able to act as a savior and take the fruits of their labor for themselves.

When the 50% defense tax was introduced, Morgan suddenly couldn't sit still.

Since the collapse of the Rothschild consortium, global mining giants such as Brazil's Vale and BHP have fallen into trouble with broken capital chains and were once on the verge of bankruptcy. The sudden rise of Future Mining has swept almost one-third of the global commodity market, using cheap and high-grade ore to steal market share that originally belonged to Brazil's Vale and BHP Group.

Especially for rare earth minerals produced on the moon, New Zealand has gradually replaced China as the world's largest exporter of rare earths.

It is no exaggeration to say that once the 50% defense tax comes out, the global commodity market will trigger a magnitude 7 earthquake.

Of course, for those who are not members.

Daniel Morgan wasn't the only one who was outraged. The White House's reaction was similar.

Hillary's economic advisers saw the true intentions of the Star Circle trade at a glance.

They are taking the space interests of other countries to inject blood into their own space industry! Of course, their family alone could not eat this piece of fat, so they also tied China and Russia onto their chariot.

That’s it if it’s the era of the space race. No matter how developed the aerospace industry is, it can only boost national self-confidence. However, now the profit prospects of the space industry are becoming more and more astonishing, even growing at a geometric rate, which cannot be ignored by the White House.

Among other things, the scale of the aerospace industrial parks in Silicon Valley and Seattle has exceeded US$1 trillion. If it is kicked off the space elevator at this time, the losses to the United States will undoubtedly be heavy.

"The risk of economic crisis has emerged. It may not be visible in the short term, but if this defense tax exists for a long time, the gap between us and them in the aerospace field will become wider and wider. We must do something before it becomes too late. What!"

"I propose to impose economic sanctions on new countries suspected of trade protectionism!"

During a regular meeting of Congress, a member of Congress stood up and spoke fiercely.

Economic sanctions, this word and antitrust investigation are completely different concepts. If the latter is an assault rifle, then the former is a map cannon. Based on the market size of both parties, the interests of both parties will be seriously damaged, it depends on who can't hold on first.

In the exploitation of the third world, the economic sanctions stick of US imperialism is invincible. They have been using poverty to force sanctioned parties to compromise since the Cold War.

However, this time there was a rare lack of reaction in the Congress, and there were even completely different voices.

"Our top priority now is to negotiate with the Star Ring trade side to minimize the impact of defense taxes on the U.S. aerospace industry, rather than letting the conflict further escalate and spread to other fields." A Republican congressman stood up and said Objections were raised.

The opposition is unique. Soon, another congressman stood up.

"Second, if it turns into a trade war, I believe we can win in many fields, but we will definitely lose miserably in the high-tech field. Especially virtual reality networks. No modern country can leave virtual reality networks. We simply cannot afford this loss."

"In addition, there is a very crucial point," the congressman said, looking around at the other congressmen in the venue, and said helplessly, "if we sanction the Earth Defense Alliance at this time, we simply cannot stand in public opinion. In Before the meeting started, I paid attention to the official website of the White House. The number of applications for the White House to join the Earth Defense Alliance has exceeded 70 million, of which 20 million votes came from North America..."

The members present looked at each other.

What they were most worried about finally happened. (To be continued.) Activate new URL