My Age of Investment

  Chapter 1158

   On the afternoon of September 25, the current leader, Xiao Bu, invited the candidates for the leadership of both parties and members of the Senate and House of Representatives to hold a summit at the White House, aiming to reach an agreement on a plan to save the US financial crisis.

The    meeting was held for several hours in a row, and spittle was pouring out of the scene. The members of the two factions were all blushing and their necks were thick, and they almost started fighting.

   One side opposes such a huge spending plan and extensive intervention in the private market, while the other side believes that it is urgent to save the market, and it is necessary to prevent the economic crisis from further escalating and causing permanent and irreparable damage to the United States.

  Because it is too democratic, the two factions have never been able to reach an agreement on the $700 billion bailout bill.

   On key issues, the members of the Donkey Party and the Elephant Party have each adhered to the positions of their own camps and will not give in at all.

   As for the financial market is now at stake, and rescue is imminent, so what? Issues of principle are not negotiable.

Treasurer Paulson is a very courageous person. In order for the rescue bill to be passed as soon as possible, he knelt down on one knee to Pei Po in full view, not to propose marriage, but to pray to Pei Po and her donkey party for the rescue bill. Open the net.

  The White House summit, not only Wall Street is paying attention, but most Americans are also paying attention.

   Countless old beauties heard that Paulson had given a "knightly salute" to the female speaker Pei Po, and many people instantly reversed their views on this "incompetent" finance minister.

   There were people who questioned Paulson's tipping off to his old club Goldman Sachs, so that Goldman Sachs was prepared accordingly and suffered the least damage in the financial crisis.

   Now that sound is almost gone.

   After all, Americans are still very particular about their personal heroism complex. Paulson kneeled down, kneeling out a new world, and kneeling out a road to the sky.

   Speaking of U.S. stocks, the ups and downs are all staring at the news about the rescue bill.

   The rescue plan was not passed at the White House summit, and the market plummeted immediately.

   This is also a true portrayal of US stocks these days.

   As soon as there is good news about the bailout bill, it will rise immediately; on the contrary, if there is bad news, it will fall immediately.

   And all the major Wall Street companies chose to lie down at this time, just waiting to see if the government could save them.

At the same time, a large number of street runners began to take to the streets. They wore white masks of the same style as Di Shitian, held up signs with protest slogans, and lay down on the ground in front of the statue of the Great Wall Street Golden Bull at the entrance of the New York Stock Exchange. Accept the onlookers and filming of reporters and passers-by.

   These people's demands are only one, and that is to strongly oppose the government's rescue of Wall Street.

   Many of them lost their homes because they could not pay their mortgages.

   There are also people who have lost their jobs because of the financial crisis. Without their income from work, their lives have become problematic.

   In addition, those returning to poverty, who suffered heavy investment losses during the financial crisis and wiped out their savings for decades, also came to demonstrate.

   In short, there are so many protesters at the scene, without exception, all because their lives have been greatly impacted by the financial crisis.

   They put the blame for all of this on Wall Street, believing that the street is the root of evil and that the government cannot waste taxpayer money saving a group of notorious villains.

  In this way, the whole of the United States, up and down, became a quarrel.

  Congressmen in the White House quarreled with each other, Wall Street took to the streets to show performance art, and there were endless arguments on social networking sites and online forums.

   The next step of the financial crisis has touched the hearts of 300 million American people.

   However, this does not include Xia Jingxing.

  He is a dignified Chinese, so don't join in the fun. Since he was targeted by Cuomo, he has become more low-key on the basis of his low-key.

   He holds meetings with executives every day, counts dollars, billions, tens of billions... life is simple and unpretentious.

   On this day, he sat in the office with Liu Hai, Jiang Ping, and Liu Xiaoduo, all four of them staring at the TV hanging on the wall.

  10, 9, 8, 7...3, 2, 1.

  Fire!

A huge flame spewed from the bottom of the launch vehicle carried by Shenzhou VII. Amidst the billowing smoke, the rocket lifted off the ground, and the tail of the rocket body dragged bright orange-red fireworks. Skyrim.

   "Our country's aerospace technology is getting better and better!"

  Jiang Ping looked at Xia Jingxing with joy, and said, "I heard that the three astronauts onboard the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft are going to walk out of space this time.

  If successful, China will be the third country to master this space technology after the United States and Russia. "

   Liu Hai nodded and smiled: "The world's third aerospace power, well deserved!"

  Xia Jingxing smiled slightly, "The Soviet Union achieved astronaut walks in March 1965, and the United States also achieved this step three months later.

  China is a full 43 years behind!

  The achievement of today's aerospace technology is of course the result of years of hard work by countless aerospace scientists and scientific researchers, but it is also inseparable from the prosperity of the country.

  No money, what kind of space race are you playing! "

  Jiang Ping smiled, "It is said that it is a three-step strategy for manned spaceflight engineering that was established and implemented in 1992.

  The first step is to launch unmanned and manned spacecraft. In 2003, Yang Liwei successfully traveled to and from space, announcing that this step has been accomplished.

   The second step is multi-person multi-day flight, astronauts go out of the cabin to walk in space, and complete the rendezvous and docking between the spacecraft and the space capsule. It seems that in a few years, almost all of these tasks can be completed.

The third step is to establish a permanent space laboratory and build China's own space engineering system. Astronauts and scientists can travel between the earth and the space station to conduct relatively large-scale space science experiments. "

  Xia Jingxing nodded lightly, the International Space Station won't let you touch it, and you can't even add money, so what should I do? Just make it yourself!

   Chinese people are very strong-willed, and they are also the least afraid of difficulties. Countless goals that were once out of reach will be achieved one by one.

   At this moment, Liu Xiaoduo suddenly said, "Mr. Xia, why doesn't our country have a rocket company?"

   Hearing this, Xia Jingxing, Liu Hai and Jiang Ping all looked at Liu Xiaoduo with a surprised expression.

Being watched by three eyes at the same time, Liu Xiaoduo spoke in a weaker tone, "Uh... I mean private companies other than countries that can operate and launch rockets, such as Musk's SpaceX and Bezos' Blue The origin of color."

   "If you read more books and newspapers, you would never ask such childish questions."

Being ridiculed by Xia Jingxing, Liu Xiaoduo did not dare to talk back, and could only say weakly: "I have read newspapers and online news, it said that Musk sold his mansion and all his property, and invested all the money in SpaceX. Days later, Falcon 1 will have its fourth launch."

  Liu Hai laughed and said: "Musk, I know that guy, the famous rocket maniac, wants to immigrate to Mars.

   His rocket company seems to have been established for six years. It has launched a total of three rockets, and none of them have been successful.

They launched a rocket just last month that ended up scattering the ashes of three NASA satellites and 208 people, including famous American actor James Doohan and Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper. The ashes of the dead who went to space fell into the Pacific Ocean together.

  Good guy, the client asked him to go to space to lift the ashes, and his rocket lifted the ashes halfway through the flight.

   I wonder if the family members who entrusted the ashes of the deceased will forgive Musk or sue him.

   Oh, I also heard that his wife divorced him some time ago.

  The double blow of career and family, this guy is miserable enough.

  Derron, who founded an electric car business called Nikola, seems to be still competing with Tesla, right?

   I think after three days, you can lose one competitor. "

  Xia Jingxing looked at Liu Hai with a smile, "Are you so sure?"

   "At least a ninety percent chance!"

   Liu Hai vowed: "How does private capital build a rocket company? Aerospace technology is an absolute secret of all countries. If you can't get the technology authorization, you can rely on yourself to develop it little by little. I don't know that the Year of the Monkey, the Horse and the Moon rocket can successfully go to the sky.

  Although Musk is a well-known entrepreneur, his financial resources are still a little short, and it is difficult to support such terrifying R&D investment.

   If this rocket launch fails again, he should be bankrupt personally, from a billionaire to a debt-ridden loser. "

  Xia Jingxing did not answer, if he remembered correctly, the fourth launch of Falcon 1 will be a success!

   Musk also became famous because of this, and then he turned around all the way, and NASA's spree orders were softly received.

   At the same time, the successful launch of the rocket will restore Musk’s bad personal goodwill, and Nikola will definitely not go bankrupt in the short term.

  The TV screen is introducing at this time that the China Space Center plans to build its own space station in the next step, and also to achieve long-term aerospace goals such as lunar exploration and Mars exploration.

   Seeing this, hearing this, Xia Jingxing's expression changed.

  It’s fine that others don’t know, but he knows that China will liberalize the control of private commercial aerospace in the future, and also vigorously encourages private capital to enter the aerospace field, accelerate the progress of China’s aerospace technology, and become a powerful complement to national defense forces.

  For example, satellites launched by Chinese private rocket companies collide with the space station of Eagle sauce, send couriers to orbital bombers, run errands, etc., all of which are strengthening national defense.

  The deregulation of private commercial spaceflight is eight years later. Is it possible now?

  Xia Jingxing fell into deep thought.

  Man, who can resist the temptation of such a big toy.

   It’s okay to put a monkey in the sky, and when it blows up, it will be celebrated with fireworks during the New Year. This is much more exciting and interesting than buying a sports car or a luxury house.

   He is not short of money now, even if he is like Bezos and invests 1 billion US dollars in aerospace companies every year, how about ten years of continuous investment.

   The real problem in our way is policy, not money.

   (end of this chapter)