Life at the Top

Before the two big bombs mentioned by Jasper appeared, the collapse of the subprime market in the United States took the lead in causing an uproar in the global financial community.

This time, not only the financial sector, even the governments of various countries around the world had begun to stand up.

As a global financial and economic center, once the United States fell into the quagmire of an economic crisis, it would cause a huge blow to the global financial industry.

Under such circumstances, the

announcement issued by the Federal

Reserve and the Department of the Treasury gave the market little

confidence, but it was still a drop in the bucket.

The 300 billion market rescue funds invested by the Federal Reserve before had all evaporated. Not only that, the points in the subprime market were still plunging drastically.

This scene caused countless people to

panic.

It was unknown how many investors and institutions had emptied all their possessions in this sudden crash. Moreover, they were even in huge debts. because of this.

One could see people’s assets such as cars, houses, and stocks being forcibly taken away by the court everywhere. Furthermore, one could see people

jumping off high-rise bridges to end their

painful life.

The economic crisis brought about by the collapse of the subprime market had affected all aspects of society.

The most terrifying chain reaction was that the decline in the subprime market had led to a full-scale decline in the United States futures and securities stock market.

The stock price of listed companies continued to fall and investors in the market lost their money. Furthermore listed companies were unable to obtain funds from the stock market for corporate

development. As a result, countless companies began to lay off employees and shut down factories, and some even went bankrupt.

Therefore, people who had lost their jobs

were looking for new jobs while facing

huge debt pressure at the same time.

The direct result of this was that a large.

number of people began to take to the

streets to demonstrate.

being incompetent and some were blaming the rich for making all the money, causing them to be unable to put food on

Under tremendous economic pressure,

social, and

States began to make

appearance one by one.

exactly what Jasper had

this time it had intensified the hatred of people

tanned -skinned Terrans had even become the targets of their attacks, and the first to bear the brunt was the

did the collapse of the subprime market evaporate countless amounts of wealth in the United States,

power

think the chaos in the

in the middle, turned to

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iconic tortoiseshell, black-rimmed

said, “It

would it end so

on the

the road holding a

to work, we

with a

period,

over the countryl

and

be equipped with

out. Are

brainless?

things for them, it will make the situation

people are like a flock of sheep. They will argue because they lost two bales of grass today and two sips of water yesterday, but they never care about the wool that farmers shear

kind of inferiority runs through the entire history of the human race. Don’t expect them to suddenly come to a realization one day. If that

his own hands. To be honest, until the thing actually happened right before m y eyes, I didn’t want to admit that the rascal who is a few years younger than me could do this. Now, I have

Langdon took off his glasses and said in satisfaction, “Never think that you are the

is indeed very good, and his ability i s beyond doubt, but it is precisely because. of this that you can either be his friend or his enemy. There is no third

sighed sullenly. For people

the arrogance he had

was different from the

flaunted as the

his very

gentle and cultivated, but

his sense of superiority

stronger than anyone else’s.

this

to admit that

better than him.