New Age Artists

Chapter 459: The casting for "Inception" is fully launched! The majestic Shen Santong!
The day after Liu Xiang withdrew from the competition.

Nike has published advertisements in many newspapers and magazines - "Love the game, love to fight for all the dignity, love to win it back; love to give everything, love the glory, love the setbacks. Love sports, even if it breaks your heart."

Nike was the first to issue a statement in support of Liu Xiang, and later introduced the best medical and sports experts in the United States to Liu Xiang and his team.

There is no hypocritical encouragement, no sympathy for the poor, only a kind of mutual respect between heroes and between men.

Hit inside and pull outside.

It’s hard not to be moved.

Coincidentally.

There is room for female athletes like Li Na, but not for male athletes like Liu Xiang and Sun Yang.

Shen Santong asked people to conduct a real offline investigation into "Liu Xiang's withdrawal from the competition" instead of just relying on online trolls and public opinion led by some media celebrities.

Most of them are confused, worried, and doubtful, and very few are highly aggressive.

The doubt is that Liu Xiang withdrew from the competition without explaining the reason clearly.

Shen Santong had Liu Xiang's contact information and sent him a text message asking him: "Why didn't you tell everyone that it was an injury and you couldn't keep going?"

On the eve of the Olympics, Liu Xiang suffered from unbearable pain in his feet and had injections, but it was of no use.

A very harmful method was used, squeezing the painful part of the foot hard to numb the pain with more intense pain.

There were a few days before the competition when I couldn't get out of bed.

Liu Xiang replied by text: "Everyone is trying to protect me too much and not let me make my voice heard. Everyone will speak for me and speak for me."

Shen Santong asked: "Do you want me to say it for you?"

They are very “protective” and “caring”, but problems always arise during the Olympic Games.

Liu Xiang stopped him: "Don't do that, it's very complicated."

The Olympics are coming to an end.

China ranks first in the gold medal list with 51 gold medals.

Sports and culture directly boosted the self-confidence of the Chinese people.

The Beijing Olympics will also be the Olympics that the Chinese people pay the most attention to. After that, the attention will not be that great.

This was also the cleanest Olympic Games.

A gold medal for morality! A gold medal for style! A gold medal for cleanliness!
As the host country, Todai did not use the rules to target other countries.

The reason why the host country won so many gold medals is that it has advantages in events.

9 month 1 day.

Shen Santong starts casting for "Inception".

Casting was carried out in BJ, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, and South Korea, starting the internationalization route.

His internationalization route is not to pile up so-called "international stars", but to focus on suitability.

It's not based on money. The money is normal, not super high.

There is no need for overly famous actors, Shen Santong is currently serving the domestic market.

Survey analysis shows.

The Chinese people embrace an open arms and welcome guests from far and near.

Regardless of skin color, race or nationality, everyone is treated sincerely as a guest, really like a guest.

Of course, after the Olympics, the audience is more level-headed.

The appeal of Japan and South Korea's so-called international stars has been greatly reduced, except for the fact that Hollywood stars still have appeal.

If you are going to compare, compare with the best.

At present, the mentality of Chinese people is confident, kind, immature and naive.

Shen Santong found it a special experience to watch the Olympics with the memories of future generations.

The world is not peaceful, and many countries are not as developed as imagined.

Material shortages are understandable, but the key is that many countries lack morality.

With the impending subprime mortgage crisis, the University of Tokyo will help resolve it.

In 09, the United States returned to the Asia-Pacific region.

Speaking of the subprime mortgage crisis, the subprime mortgage crisis has begun to arrive.

9 month 7 day.

The U.S. government announced that it will take over the troubled U.S. mortgage financing institutions Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from now on.

In other words, from Bear Stearns to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the US government has given the public the impression that financial institutions are "too big to fail."

the same day.

Shen Santong came to Hong Kong Island in the name of auditioning for a new play.

This is indeed what is done. The casting in Hong Kong is used to audition some white faces.

Preferably a white person who looks a bit like Soros.

Li Jiaxin also came for the audition.

Slip!

Started eating popsicles.

While eating, Li Jiaxin asked: "I have discussed with some friends in Hong Kong Island that Lehman Brothers is a good choice."

Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Li Jiaxin rolled her eyes: "Hey, what are you doing?"

Shen Santong was so surprised that he accidentally bumped into Li Jiaxin, and the popsicle slipped in.

It's not some messed up stuff.

Shen Santong took a deep breath and said, "Why do you want to buy Lehman Brothers at the bottom?"

Li Jiaxin said: "Lehman Brothers is just experiencing temporary operational difficulties. As a large financial company that is one of the top five investment banks, the US government will definitely rescue it."

"From Bear Stearns to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they all got rescued."

Shen Santong thought that he had almost withdrawn all his funds.

Plus, Li Jiaxin is really awesome.

You can say something like: "If I were you, not only would I not rescue Lehman, but I would also check to see if the bonds I bought were in Lehman."

Li Jiaxin asked vaguely: "Why?"

Shen Santong helped her up and went further, "Because the US Treasury Secretary has a bad relationship with Lehman, because Lehman is not an investment bank in the circle."

Li Jiaxin took a deep breath and said, "Lehman Brothers will definitely not collapse. If it collapses, won't all US banks be in trouble?"

"As Treasury Secretary, Paulson would not have watched Lehman Brothers collapse."

Seeing that she understood quite well, Shen Santong said nothing more.

She is not Li Jiaxin's father.

Even if you call me dad, it’s not the right thing to do.

In the previous life, people were wondering why Paulson saved Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and Merrill Lynch, but not Lehman Brothers.

There are many theories.

Later, Bernanke (then Chairman of the Federal Reserve) repeatedly said in interviews: "The public is dissatisfied with the rescue measures and increasingly demands that those 'too big to fail' financial institutions be allowed to go bankrupt. Like them, I am unwilling to take the risk of using taxpayers' money to save a bank that has put itself in trouble."

In an interview with Paulson (U.S. Treasury Secretary), he said about Lehman's bankruptcy: "I don't want to appear to be incompetent. For example, I can't say that we don't have the constitutional power to save Lehman, although this is true." "Say that Morgan Stanley will go bankrupt immediately. Although its financial situation is much better than Lehman, it is already overwhelmed by the impending heavy blow."

“After losing Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs will be next. If they all fail, the financial system and even the entire economic system may be destroyed.”

To translate what these two people said, the public is already filled with anger at the US government and the Federal Reserve's operations to rescue companies, as a result of rescuing Bear Stearns and providing support to the "two housing agencies."

Judging from the situation at the time, Lehman Brothers was by no means the last financial institution to need rescue.

If it takes further action, it is very likely that the US finances will be dragged down as well.

Once the mentality of "the government will back it up, the profits will be mine, and the risks will be shared by everyone" is formed, the consequences will be disastrous.

So, it was the people who did not allow Lehman to be rescued.

As for the subsequent rescue of Morgan Stanley, it was to restore people's confidence in the market and the government.

The question is, what about Merrill Lynch?

Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers were a pair of “brothers in distress”. Why save Merrill Lynch instead of Lehman?
the reason is simple.

They are from the same circle.

Paulson is the former chairman of Goldman Sachs. John Thain, CEO of Merrill Lynch, received an MBA from Harvard University in 79 and joined Goldman Sachs after graduation.

John Thain worked at Goldman Sachs for 1979 years, from 2003 to 24.

From an ordinary employee to a trader, then from a business manager to the chief financial officer, and finally promoted to president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs Group.

He is a former subordinate of the current US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Those in the company, the government, and the regulatory agencies are all former colleagues, former leaders, and former subordinates, and they are intertwined with each other.

The players, referees, and arbitration appeals bodies are all our own people.

What the hell!

The key is that Lehman Brothers is Europe's money bag.

The dead Lehman Brothers helped the United States to default on a large number of European paper debts by using the method of eliminating debts after death.

Lehman's largest European bank loan creditor is BNP Paribas of France, as well as Handelsbanken, KBC Bank of Belgium, Lloyds Bank of Britain, Standard Chartered Bank and Norges Bank.

Then, there are a lot of Asian funds among the depositors, and many Hong Kong stars’ money is in it.

It is similar to the First Republic Bank which went bankrupt later.

Many of the depositors are Chinese, so they can be ripped off.

The key is whether it is a circle, direct and cruel.

Later, Alang attacked Xiaoyi.

Lao Deng held an emergency meeting, and the black defense minister did not appear in several group photos.

When it comes to decision-making, if you are not in the same circle, not only will you not be able to get in, you may even eat at your table.

9 month 12 day.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Cox and senior executives from Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and others gathered at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York headquarters in Manhattan.

Study how to save Lehman Brothers, which was facing bankruptcy, to prevent the credit crisis from worsening further.

The problem is, there is no Lehman Brothers here.

Yes.

Lehman Brothers was rescued, and the US bank that might have eventually bought Lehman Brothers did not receive an invitation.

If you cannot participate in this moment of sharing the blame, you can imagine what the outcome will be.

Shen Santong was selecting cast members in Hong Kong Island while directing the account withdrawal.

Having read a lot of information about later replays, he was so happy when he read the foreign media reports.

Embraer Bank decided to acquire Lehman Brothers after it had divested its toxic assets, but it needed Wall Street consortiums to be responsible for financing Lehman Brothers and helping them divest their bad assets.

But the next day, September 9, at 13:1 p.m., the head of the Wall Street consortium notified Lehman Brothers to terminate the financing cooperation.

The reason was opposition from Goldman Sachs and Morgan.

In the afternoon, news came that the British Barclays Bank would terminate the cooperation because the British government believed the risks were too high.

After three consecutive days of meetings, have we achieved any results?
Yes, I have.

Lehman's "fellow sufferer", former Treasury Secretary Paulson's subordinate, and Merrill Lynch CEO was also present.

Kenneth Lewis, CEO of Bank of America, who did not participate in the meeting, asked the price directly.

In later generations, the story will be told.

Sean had no idea at all, and he didn't dare to confirm whether he had found the right person.

Lewis agreed to acquire Merrill Lynch because Merrill Lynch had many high-quality assets, not only material but also cultural.

Merrill Lynch's credibility remains, and its 1.6 traders are like jewels in the crown, shining wherever they go.

Shen Santong died of laughter.

How dare the US Bank refuse to agree if it doesn’t even attend this kind of meeting?
9 month 14 day.

British regulators rejected Barclays' bailout application.

9 month 15 day.

Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy protection.

Barclays Bank of the UK, Development Bank of South Korea and Bank of America of the United States have successively abandoned acquisition negotiations.

The Lehman moment finally arrived.

This 158-year-old investment bank eventually turned into an unprecedented financial hurricane, sweeping across Wall Street with devastating force and then sweeping across the global financial markets.

Wall Street ushered in a true "Black Monday".

U.S. stocks plummeted, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average recording its largest single-day drop in points and percentage since the September 9.11th attacks.

Global stock markets also plummeted.

9 month 16 day.

Asia-Pacific stock markets fell sharply, with Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea all falling by more than 5%.

The Australian stock market also suffered an earthquake. The Australian dollar weakened at the opening on the 16th, and the stock market closed down by more than 1.5%.

Li Jiaxin came to find Shen Santong in a hurry.

Part of her money was stuck in Lehman Brothers. Fortunately, she listened to Shen Santong and sold some of her bonds.
Many celebrities and wealthy people in Hong Kong are clients of Lehman Brothers. Li Jiaxin discovered that Shen Santong was very powerful and wanted to obtain some information to improve her status in the circle.

however.

Shen Santong, who usually seems very easy to talk to, is now holding his cell phone with a stern expression and cold eyes.

When he saw her, he just waved.

The person who brought her here immediately arranged her somewhere else.

Li Jiaxin wanted to say something to Shen Santong, but the other party had already turned around and went to the lawn to make a phone call.

The security around her quietly blocked her from sight.

Li Jiaxin suddenly had a feeling that the current Shen Santong was infinitely close to the temperament of a man.

Cold, bloodthirsty, and oppressive.

(End of this chapter)