Chapter 1828 Come to New York
On December 30, 1999, Han Xuan's plane landed at the Kennedy International Airport in New York, and then took a helicopter and went directly to Wall Street.
This year is about to end, and tomorrow is the last day of the entire thousand years. Countless major events have happened in the past thousand years, especially since the 20th century, the entire human society has changed drastically and the population has also skyrocketed.
In 1804, the world's population was only one billion, increased to two billion in 1927, reached three billion in 1960, reached four billion in 1975, and rose to five billion in 1987. On October 12, 1999, Han Xuan was still studying at the University of Cambridge, England, and the world's population reached six billion that day!
This is just a rough figure. The specific number of people is definitely more than the official statistics. In some countries, there is no perfect statistical agency at all. The population can only be derived through estimates. More than 6 billion people have put huge pressure on the earth. With the change of lifestyle, too many resources are consumed, and even in some countries, the most basic food and clothing problem cannot be solved.
Some experts say that humans will perish in the 21st century. Han Xuan doesn’t know what will happen, but it is indeed very likely that an acute infectious disease may break out one day in the future, which may lead to the extinction of human beings.
Regarding "evolution", with the development of the scientific community recently, people have begun to question the truth that ordinary people believe, and more and more people oppose its existence. In the face of some conclusive evidence, even Han Xuan has begun to shake.
As early as 1859, the famous biologist Darwin proposed the theory of evolution. He believed that creatures were not created by God, but evolved from simple to complex over a long period of time.
Strictly speaking, evolution theory is just a hypothesis. Darwin hoped to find conclusive evidence in the future, but evidence that could withstand testing has not been found yet.
Evolution theory is not a truth that cannot be questioned. It can also be revised and improved, and even overturned by more scientific theories in the future. It is worth mentioning that after Han Xuan read a large number of books at Cambridge University, he changed his understanding of Darwin's theory because he had received a wrong education before.
The word evolution is translated from "evolution", but it actually translates to evolution better. It was originally called "evolutionary theory" and later became the well-known theory of evolution.
Although it is just two words, the difference is very big. "Evolution" represents continuous progress from low to high, which is not in line with Darwin's original intention. "Evolution" has no purpose. It can be evolved or degenerated in any direction. The species suitable for a certain period are lucky to be preserved. The common evolutionary trees in books are also wrong.
If evolution is mentioned, then people cannot find where the end of evolution is, and evolution will be different. Evolution has no goal and can finally survive in adaptation. It cannot be said that the low end of species such as dinosaurs have been pressing on mammals for up to billions of years, and later it went to perish due to climate change and meteorite disasters.
As for the so-called Archaeoptera birds, there is no real evidence to date. Han Xuan collected a dinosaur fossil like a bird last year, but it was later confirmed that it was fake and was not qualified to enter his library...
Many important events have happened this year. People have begun to look back at the 100th and the huge changes in the world over the past thousand years. The New York Times selected the list of the greatest male actors, actresses, companies and other industries in a century. Many media have followed the trend and conducted the century-old selection activities, attracting enough attention. It is like a carnival, and people are full of expectations for tomorrow.
It's just a little bit of time in the long years of the universe. The universe we live in has spent about 14 million such a span of thousands of years. However, for humans, a short life makes people destined to see it again. Tomorrow is an important day that more than a dozen generations can encounter once.
On the 20th, Han Xuan stayed in Los Angeles and did not go to Aomen to watch the return ceremony. It was mainly because he was lazy and it took a long time to go there. Executive Anthony attended the ceremony on his behalf and stayed there for a short time, spending a night discussing the future development of the casino.
On the other hand, in 1997, Han Xuan's Xueshan Real Estate Company went to the next door to acquire several very good land at a low price. Executive Anthony helped host the sales ceremony of a super-large building, and could see the landscape of Victoria Harbor from afar.
Others collected deposits and sold the house before it started to be built. Xueshan Real Estate is not short of money, and it is sold in ready-made houses, and it is the kind that has been decorated. More than 3,000 houses were sold out in just two days, with an average transaction price of 3.1 million Hong Kong dollars. This property alone brought him hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.
Han Xuan knew that this was the last transaction before the cold winter season. Judging from the local real estate market, the bubble was about to burst, so he seized the time to get rid of it. It can only be said that there are indeed many rich people, and so many houses can be sold quickly, which scared the management of Xueshan Real Estate.
They had already estimated the market size, but later they found that their enthusiasm for buying a house was much greater than they imagined. They finally understood why the boss was so optimistic about the real estate industry in China. This is a profitable industry that does not worry about sales, provided that the economy can develop.
As the agreement to join the International Trade Organization gradually becomes clear, the rise in economic aggregate is a situation that anyone can see...
The reason I came to Wall Street today is because Han Xuan was going to hold a meeting with a group of financial tycoons to discuss economic and environmental issues in the next century. The official also sent people to attend. Thinking that he hadn't seen these people for a long time, Han Xuan agreed to attend. The name of the meeting was "Federal Interest Rate Meeting", also called the Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The main content was to decide the monetary policy for the next period of time and regulate the world economy through policies.
Don’t think that the big guys on Wall Street are really smart. In Han Xuan’s opinion, they are also very stupid occasionally. For example, the recent Internet bubble has trapped a large number of Wall Street investors. When it is down, some people are trying to buy the bottom, which can be considered as helping fill the pit.
Although Keynes believes that investment is like beauty pageant and requires consideration of how most people judge, at the turning point of the market, there must be a few people who have the courage to stand opposite the market. These people may be shrewd or fools.
I didn’t know what happened before, but this time they must have been fools. On the day the Christmas market closed, hundreds of billions of dollars poured into Nasdaq to buy at the bottom, because various professional rating agencies raised the ratings of a large number of Internet companies.
But they didn't expect that as long as they had enough ability, they could actually buy the rating they wanted. This time, these people were cheated by Interstellar Investment. Han Xuan's subordinates planned this big conspiracy to cash out the gloves...
Chapter completed!