My absurd experiences in North America over the years

In the last few days of September, New York was hit by a continuous autumn rain.

When Li Fu emerged from Kennedy Airport, the sky was overcast, and fine rain pattered against the car windows, blurring the Manhattan skyline into a hazy outline.

He sat in the back seat, holding his phone, the screen flashing with message notifications that had flooded in since airplane mode was turned off.

Lina sent three messages, Ivanka sent two, and Jackson sent one.

He opened the messages, and Lina's messages were all reporting on the Australian dollar's performance in the last few days. Her tone changed from initial caution to increasing certainty. The Australian dollar had indeed experienced another one-sided upward trend and was currently experiencing a pullback.

As the vehicle crossed the Queens Bridge, Li Fu put down his phone and looked out the window at the gray-blue river.

The surface of the Donghe River was broken into fine ripples by the raindrops, and the ferry moved slowly in the distance, as if being pulled by some slow and steady force, moving along a fixed trajectory.

The weather wasn't like this when he left New York two weeks ago.

At that time, the summer heat had not completely dissipated, and people on Fifth Avenue would still walk very fast because of the scorching sun.

And now, it's confirmed that the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming.

The first thing Li Fu did upon returning to his office was to look at the data. As mentioned earlier, he couldn't be certain how high the Australian dollar would rise.

He turned on his computer and logged into the trading platform.

When the screen lit up, he saw the final closing price at the end of September. The Australian dollar had pulled back in the last two trading days, falling from close to 0.88 to around 0.8720, but overall it remained at a high level.

The upward momentum is strong, judging from the candlestick chart.

Gold fluctuated between $990 and $1000, failing to break through the $1000 mark or fall sharply, thus entering a wide range of fluctuations.

On the US stock market, Apple, Nvidia, and Amazon are all continuing their slow upward trend. This is something that cannot be rushed; their rapid progress will take five to ten years.

Li Fu pulled up the position summary table and went through it item by item. The initial position in Australian dollars was 0.7080, the first addition was 0.7550, the second addition was 0.8080, and the current spot price was 0.8720.

The initial position had a floating profit of approximately 18.4 billion, the first additional investment had a floating profit of approximately 14.5 billion, and the second additional investment had a floating profit of approximately 7.5 million.

The total unrealized profit for the Australian dollar portion is approximately 40.4 billion.

If the euro and yen are included, the total unrealized profit from foreign exchange is approximately US$68-7 billion, with foreign exchange accounting for almost 70% of the fund's total unrealized profit.

He knew the Australian dollar should still have room to grow before the end of the year, but he dared not add to his position. He also did not plan to make any more detailed additions to his positions in the euro and yen. He had basically achieved his goal of making huge profits, and any further additions would just be icing on the cake.

He texted Lina to take care of the daily position management, while he needed to take his eyes off the candlestick charts for a while and turn to a battlefield that he wasn't so familiar with.

As September draws to a close, Li Fu is preparing to distribute the quarterly financial report plan to all LPs of all funds by the 5th of each month, with monthly reports to be sent out on a monthly basis.

This adjustment is not actually related to the operation of the fund, but is more based on the external environment.

He wants to show the LPs that the joint fund is creating huge amounts of wealth every moment, and that this wealth is the best bargaining chip to "bind" them.

Once October arrives, tensions between the two major powers will begin to rise, and the state visit of the black president to the East will exacerbate this situation.

The rain was still falling outside the window, and the Fifth Avenue pavement reflected the light from the streetlights, looking wet.

He stood up and walked to the window. Rainwater hit the glass and flowed down the surface, forming streams on the ground. The building across the street still had lights on, and he could vaguely see someone walking around the window.

It was a street he saw every day; the layout of New York was still the same.

But the world is undergoing dramatic changes.

"Why are you so sentimental after going to Los Angeles?" Ivanka appeared behind him at some point.

Li Fu turned his gaze away from the window and smiled, "I used to love literature too much, and I was prone to melancholy and sentimentality."

Ivanka seems to have a particular fondness for white suits, and she's dressed like that right now. To be fair, she does look good in a white suit.

"My father has heard some political rumors and has recently stopped being busy expanding his business empire. Instead, he often angrily denounces the president's cabinet and Congress for making a mess of things," she said as she slowly walked to Li Fu's side and stood beside him.

She didn't seem to be in a good mood either.

Li Fu caused quite a stir in Los Angeles, with many people speculating that he was trying to seduce some celebrity.

But Ivanka no longer had much interest in those entertainment gossips, because her father, CP, was gradually developing a stronger desire to enter politics due to his dissatisfaction with those politicians.

"What political rumors are these?" Li Fu looked at Ivanka, who seemed to have never looked so dejected before.

"Trade frictions with a major Eastern power and the increasingly serious anti-China tendencies in the cabinet and Congress..." Ivanka sighed.

These things wouldn't have had much impact on her originally, but Li Fu is currently CP Group's closest partner.

There's that kind of relationship between them.

Actually, things weren't so peaceful by early September. The U.S. Department of Commerce decided to impose heavy tariffs on tires from the major Eastern power, and the major power quickly retaliated by announcing an investigation into some American automobiles and chicken products.

Congress is also preparing to launch anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into seamless steel pipes from major countries, and a bill is being drafted.

Based on the current situation where the Democratic Party controls both the House and Senate, the bill should pass in no more than half a month.

This is not the worst part. Through their personal connections, the CCP learned that an even larger upheaval was yet to come, which means a full-blown anti-China wave was brewing.

Meanwhile, discussions about Forrest Capital within Congress are increasing exponentially.

Several lawmakers have privately discussed how a foreigner with citizenship in a major Eastern country controls 70 percent of Forrest Capital's shares, and Forrest Capital's extensive investments span real estate, technology, traditional media, social media, and many other sectors.

This is an extremely dangerous signal and must be taken seriously.

What are the consequences of taking it too seriously?

They all understood that it was simply a matter of dividing up the pie.

This greatly impacted CP's own interests. He was expanding his business empire worldwide, and recently he conducted in-depth research on the East Asian market, discovering that it was the "blue ocean" for high-end real estate. He believed that CP buildings would surely flourish everywhere.

If the president's cabinet and parliament are prepared to curb Tokyo University, it will effectively cut off his important path of expansion.

Most importantly, his biggest "financial backer" was Li Fu, and the huge dividends from the United Fund were the source of his confidence to expand recklessly.

The two sides were already deeply intertwined; he even once wanted Ivanka to marry Li Fu. Given this situation, it would be strange if he didn't vehemently denounce those politicians as idiots.