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.

the rich for making all the money, causing them to be unable to put food on the

Under tremendous economic pressure,

racial, social, and

States

appearance one by one.

had

that this time it had intensified the hatred of people in the United States toward

occasions, tanned -skinned Terrans had even become the targets of their attacks, and the first to bear the brunt was the Somerlandtowns that were littered all

only did the collapse of the subprime market evaporate countless amounts of wealth in the United States, it also exacerbated social conflicts and caused social

the power of modern

the chaos

Kayden, who wast sitting in the middle, turned to ask his father, Half-the-Harbor Langdon,

still wore

iconic tortoiseshell, black-rimmed

“It has just

would it

demonstrator on the

holding a

we

a complicated

period,

over the

looted, and burned, while

to be

we go out. Are these people

brainless?

this not fix things for them, it

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 from their bodies every year to make coats, or even the farmers slaughtering one or two of their companions to make a

the human race. Don’t expect them to suddenly come to a realization one day. If that day comes,

terrifying. He was the one who caused this. with 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

good that you’re aware of this.” Half -the-Harbor Langdon took off his glasses and said in satisfaction, “Never think that you are the smartest one. Only idiots will have

be someone better than u s, but there are always too many idiots who have struggled to nderstand this. Jasper is indeed very good, and his ability i s beyond doubt, but it is precisely because.

sullenly. For people

he

was different from the

flaunted as the former’s

from his very bones.

was gentle and cultivated, but

sense

stronger than anyone else’s.

because of this that it

him to admit that others

better than him.