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[Chapter 1161 This splendid fireworks of wealth (2)]

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After reading the more than ten-page column, Eric chatted with Chris on the phone for another half an hour.

Flash Dance Novel Network hung up the phone and was sitting in front of the computer thinking about the problems that he might face in the next period of time, when there was a knock on the door.

Looking up, Cindy stood at the door and looked at his expression, and said with concern: “Eric, what happened?”

Eric leaned back on the leather chair and spread his hand towards Cindy, and the woman walked in and leaned into his arms with a smile.

Gently stroking Cindy’s slightly bulging belly, Eric’s chin was on her shoulder, feeling the seductive scent of women, and said, “Why don’t you rest for a while?”

“It’s already eight o’clock,” Cindy said, pulling her face and sticking to Eric’s profile, “Breakfast is ready.”

Eric just looked at the time in the lower right corner of the computer monitor, but didn’t get up, and said, “Let Linda live here during this time, she can still help take care of you.”

“Well, she has actually moved here,” Cindy nodded, got up and pulled Eric up, and said, “Let’s go to dinner first, I still have work in the morning.”

Eric opened his mouth, but did not continue to persuade Cindy to stop working.

Anyway, the recording of the new season of America’s Next Top Model will be completed next month, and Cindy will be able to stop and take maternity leave until the end of the year.

After a simple wash, Eric and Cindy came to the restaurant together, and Linda, who only wore a pale pink long T-shirt with her long legs exposed, was setting breakfast.

When I saw Eric and Cindy come in, I didn’t forget to goug out Eric because of what happened last night, and thoughtfully help Cindy open a chair.

Eric sat down at the dining table, just picked up the cutlery, and remembered one more thing, to the two women: “I will go to Australia in early August, the firefly system executive meeting is going to be held there this year, you have to come together. ?”

“Is it winter in Australia now?” Linda immediately shook her head and said, “I won’t go, I’m afraid of the cold.”

However, Cindy immediately remembered that Virginia and the others were still in Australia, and Eric had arranged the party there. There must be a reason for this.

At this time, the man said that he was going to take the two of them, apparently intending to push them to the front of the stage.

If she can confirm her identity in front of the core executives of the Firefly System, it will be of great benefit to herself and the child in her belly.

However, after hesitating for a moment, Cindy also shook her head and said, “Forget it, I’m not very suitable for making airplanes now, and several projects in the hands of Linda and I have been in production recently, and we can’t go away.”

Eric nodded: “That’s fine, I’ll talk about it next time.”

Linda reacted at this time, and when she heard Cindy’s decision not to go, she couldn’t open her mouth any more. She just patted her flat belly, and her eyes couldn’t help but feel a little more resentment.

After breakfast, Eric first sent Cindy and Linda to work in the production company, and then he rushed to the headquarters of Firefly Investments.

After nine o’clock, Eric came to the office area of Firefly Investment Company in Building 50, Rockefeller Center. Under the guidance of the staff, he pushed the door and walked into a conference room.

Chris was found alone by the large conference table, staring intently at a wall-mounted TV.

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Finding Eric coming, Chris nodded in greeting, and immediately pointed to the TV screen.

Eric had already recognized the figure of a middle-aged judge on the TV screen that he had seen in the video a few days ago.

Came to Chris and leaned against him at the conference table, Thomas Jackson on the screen was being interviewed by CNN and showed a few pages of documents to the host: “After this period of evidence collection, we can already be 100% sure that Microsoft exists. Very serious monopolistic behavior. In my opinion, only by breaking up Microsoft and implementing stricter controls can this company prevent this company from further hindering normal competition in the industry.”

Listening to the middle-aged judge and the cnn host talking eloquently, Eric raised his hand and looked at his watch. It was already 9:15, only 15 minutes before the opening of the Nasdaq.

Chris noticed Eric’s actions and said, “It’s too late. Even if some people react, it’s impossible to respond effectively.”

Eric nodded in approval and understood what Chris meant.

According to some statistics over the weekend, the cumulative short position of the Nasdaq index in trading markets around the world is conservatively estimated to be no less than 60 billion US dollars. Such a large-scale capital force is accumulating a blow, and the stock market of any country in the world is are unbearable.

However, the current total market capitalization of Nasdaq stocks has reached 79 trillion US dollars.

Investors naturally don’t want such a huge fortune to disappear with the stock market crash.

Therefore, if the layout of the short-selling forces can be predicted in advance, an effective counterattack can certainly be made.

However, too many people are immersed in the joy that the Nasdaq index has just broken through 5,000 points, and have not been sufficiently alert to the trend of discussion in recent days.

Eric had anticipated this in advance, but the Firefly System didn’t have any plans to make a first move, let alone no such strength.

The collapse of the Nasdaq index, which has reached its peak, is an inevitable thing, and going against the trend will only be crushed to pieces.

Eric and Chris watched the situation calmly in the conference room of Firefly Investments, but for the securities industry, this is not destined to be a peaceful day.

With the rapid spread of the remarks made by Thomas Jackson, a judge in the Microsoft antitrust case, in an interview with CNN, coupled with a series of comments on the negative index over the weekend, whether it was a premeditated plan or a premonition that the crisis was coming, it was distributed in North America and even around the world. of stock managers noticeably find that there are significantly more orders to sell tech stocks today than ever before.

Finally, at 9:30 a.m., the Nasdaq index just opened, and a one-time stock selling order of more than $1 billion directly lowered Microsoft’s share price by more than 3 percentage points.

But this is far from over. In the following hour, almost all major technology stocks such as Yahoo, Cisco, Intel, and Amazon in the Nasdaq stock market ushered in huge selling orders.

After the demand for buying technology stocks, which was far from being able to hedge the scale of the sell-off, was quickly offset, large-scale stock selling orders began to squeeze, continuing to pull down the share prices of major technology stocks.

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So panic started to spread.

More investors who got the news began to join the sell-off, and a terrible domino effect quickly formed.

At 4 p.m. ET, the Nasdaq finally closed at 4,960, down 19%.

But a string of major tech stocks that got big sell-offs suffered heavy losses.

Microsoft shares fell 83% in a single day.

Cisco shares fell 56% in a single day.

Yahoo shares fell 65% in a single day.

Intel shares fell 59%.

Amazon shares fell 96% in a single day.

However, this series of falling numbers that represent the disappearance of tens of billions of dollars in wealth is just the beginning.

At the same time, in the face of a gloomy Nasdaq market, Wall Street once again fully reflected its unscrupulous side.

The major investment bank analysts who were still hyping that the Nasdaq would hit the 6,000-point mark at a new high last week have changed their tone at this time, almost overwhelmingly belittling the investment value of technology stocks.

For the next four trading days, the Nasdaq fell by more than 100 points each day as the chain reaction from the stock market crash further fermented.

Although various methods from the federal government down to various new technology companies have tried to stabilize the Nasdaq index, the results have been very limited.

Because a large number of investors are using investment leverage recklessly in order to maximize profits during the last crazy period of the Nasdaq.

This also greatly reduces the ability of these investors to resist risks.

Generally, the investment leverage is about five to ten times, so that investors can only bear a decline of about 10% to 20% of a certain stock at most.

But in reality, many stocks tend to fall by more than 10% in a single day.

As the situation continues to deteriorate, it is no longer even for investors to decide whether to sell stocks.

In order to prevent losses from reaching unbearable levels, many financing institutions that provide capital guarantees for leveraged investors have to forcibly liquidate the stocks in the hands of customers.

A large amount of selling orders flowed to the market, further causing a vicious circle of stock price declines.

On July 23, a nightmare week for the new technology market finally came to an end. The Nasdaq closed at 4,373 points, a drop of 135% relative to last week’s peak of 5,056 points, and more than $1 trillion in wealth disappeared.

A series of leading technology stocks that led the Nasdaq market in the early stage generally fell more than the entire Nasdaq market.

Affected by Thomas Jackson’s remarks on Monday, Microsoft’s stock price fell by 227% in five days, and its market value fell from a peak of more than $600 billion to $469.9 billion.

Cisco, which has just taken the top spot in the world’s market capitalization, saw its stock price drop by 259% in a week, and its market value fell all the way to $453.1 billion.

Yahoo, which Eric has been paying attention to the most, also fell by 165% in five days, which was within Eric’s tolerance range, and the company’s market value remained above $200 billion, reaching $215.5 billion.

The stock prices of other Amazon, sprint, Qualcomm and other companies in the Firefly system were all spared, and they all fell to varying degrees.

In contrast, Nokia, which is listed on multiple stock exchanges in North America and Europe at the same time, was the least affected by the collapse of the Nasdaq. Coupled with its solid performance support, at the close of Friday’s market, its share price was only 39% higher than last week’s. fell.

In the early evening, Bill Gates hurried to Manhattan for a whole week because of Thomas Jackson’s comments on Monday, all the way to Eric’s penthouse at the entrance to Sixth Avenue.

When he saw that figure sitting leisurely next to the seat in the open-air garden on the rooftop, with his legs crossed, reading a newspaper and drinking coffee, Bill Gates felt a burst of depression in his heart.

Due to the success of Microsoft, he should have been one of the proudest people in the world with huge wealth, but in front of this young man, it was always difficult for Bill Gates to find any sense of superiority.

Sitting down on a chair unceremoniously, Bill Gates glanced at the newspaper in Eric’s hand and said, “Eric, you’d better give me a reason that will satisfy me.”

Eric folded the newspaper and put it in front of him, poured a cup of coffee for his classmates, pointed to the direction of the Hudson River not far away, and said with a smile, “Suddenly I felt that there should be a fireworks show recently, so I bought one. Ship, start at eight o’clock.”

Bill Gates didn’t touch the coffee in front of him, he subconsciously lowered his glasses and said, “Eric, don’t you think this is boring?”

“Okay,” Eric put away his expression, but obviously still looked helpless, and said: “We are serious, the current situation is very bad, Yahoo needs some good news, and the same is true for Microsoft, so we cooperate What’s it like?”

Bill Gates showed a contemptuous look: “Then what?”

Eric handed a folder to Bill Gates, opened the laptop next to him, and said, “I have drawn up the contract. However, let’s take a look at this first, you will definitely be interested, um, it’s a bit long. , or look directly from here.”

Eric said, adjusted the progress bar, turned the laptop screen to the door classmate, and pressed the play button.

A voice that Bill Gates was quite familiar with came from the loudspeaker immediately.

“Publicizing this kind of out-of-court remarks in public is a serious violation of judicial process, and it will probably ruin my career. So, $2 million is not enough, if it works, you need to pay me another $300 Ten thousand U.S. dollars.”

“Thomas, you’re so greedy, $2 million is a lot of money.”

“Don’t think I don’t understand this, Dean, at the size of your shorts, if the Nasdaq crashes, you can make at least billions of dollars. So, it’s not negotiable.”

There was a moment of silence in the video, before another voice sounded again: “Okay, I promise you.”

Eric looked at the widening eyes of Bill Gates on the opposite side, reached out and closed the laptop with a snap, picked it up and retracted it to his side.

Bill Gates raised his head suddenly as if being woken up from his sleep, glared at Eric, and realized his current situation in a blink of an eye, put away his expression and said, “Eric, it’s illegal for you to do this. of.”

Eric pointed to the door, shrugged and said, “If you’re not interested, do it yourself.”

Bill Gates swallowed and stared at Eric for a moment, before picking up the folder he just handed over and opening it.

After hurriedly flipping through it, Bill Gates quickly put it down and said, “It’s okay to give up that share subscription contract. But Yahoo browser continues to enjoy its original status on the Microsoft platform, which is simply impossible.”

“I didn’t think about such a good thing,” Eric said. “You must not have looked carefully. Yahoo can pay Microsoft $1 for pre-installation of each operating system.”

“But that’s less than $50 million a year, Eric, if it were you, would you?”

“Of course I don’t want to,” Eric patted the laptop in front of him: “So, this is Yahoo’s compensation to Microsoft.”

“This video does not necessarily help Microsoft,” Bill Gates pretended to be disdainful: “Once exposed, it may even be counterproductive.”

“So, so far, the people who have watched this video and you have just put together a hand,” Eric said: “I have been thinking about this issue recently. Standing in our position, it is often very difficult. It’s hard to do things as we want. Too many times, we have to make compromises. Like this video, my first thought was to expose it, and then stand by and watch the fun. But then I realized, It seems that it will bring some benefits if it is not exposed, of course, this is for Microsoft, and Firefly cannot use this thing.”

Bill Gates narrowed his eyes: “Eric, are you implying me to threaten the Department of Justice?”

“It’s just a negotiation,” Eric shrugged: “Microsoft is now a victim, even a persecuted one. So even the president has to compromise. You know, Clinton can’t stand it anymore. Another political storm has started. But what is happening now is that a middle-aged judge has caused the entire Nasdaq market to crash for his own self-interest, and trillions of dollars of wealth have disappeared like a fireworks, I hear Investors who jumped off the building because of bankruptcy have already appeared this week. Then, once the scandal in the video is exposed, Thomas Jackson will definitely be the target of public criticism, but the Clinton administration, which has been strongly advocating for the investigation of Microsoft, must not stay out of it. Even if it does not happen again A second impeachment, but the countless angry investors who lost so much in the stock market crash would be enough to end the Clintons’ political careers, which is exactly what the two of them feared the most.”

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After reading the more than ten-page column, Eric chatted with Chris on the phone for another half an hour.

Flash Dance Novel Network hung up the phone and was sitting in front of the computer thinking about the problems that he might face in the next period of time, when there was a knock on the door.

Looking up, Cindy stood at the door and looked at his expression, and said with concern: “Eric, what happened?”

Eric leaned back on the leather chair and spread his hand towards Cindy, and the woman walked in and leaned into his arms with a smile.

Gently stroking Cindy’s slightly bulging belly, Eric’s chin was on her shoulder, feeling the seductive scent of women, and said, “Why don’t you rest for a while?”

“It’s already eight o’clock,” Cindy said, pulling her face and sticking to Eric’s profile, “Breakfast is ready.”

Eric just looked at the time in the lower right corner of the computer monitor, but didn’t get up, and said, “Let Linda live here during this time, she can still help take care of you.”

“Well, she has actually moved here,” Cindy nodded, got up and pulled Eric up, and said, “Let’s go to dinner first, I still have work in the morning.”

Eric opened his mouth, but did not continue to persuade Cindy to stop working.

Anyway, the recording of the new season of America’s Next Top Model will be completed next month, and Cindy will be able to stop and take maternity leave until the end of the year.

After a simple wash, Eric and Cindy came to the restaurant together, and Linda, who only wore a pale pink long T-shirt with her long legs exposed, was setting breakfast.

When I saw Eric and Cindy come in, I didn’t forget to goug out Eric because of what happened last night, and thoughtfully help Cindy open a chair.

Eric sat down at the dining table, just picked up the cutlery, and remembered one more thing, to the two women: “I will go to Australia in early August, the firefly system executive meeting is going to be held there this year, you have to come together. ?”

“Is it winter in Australia now?” Linda immediately shook her head and said, “I won’t go, I’m afraid of the cold.”

However, Cindy immediately remembered that Virginia and the others were still in Australia, and Eric had arranged the party there. There must be a reason for this.

At this time, the man said that he was going to take the two of them, apparently intending to push them to the front of the stage.

If she can confirm her identity in front of the core executives of the Firefly System, it will be of great benefit to herself and the child in her belly.

However, after hesitating for a moment, Cindy also shook her head and said, “Forget it, I’m not very suitable for making airplanes now, and several projects in the hands of Linda and I have been in production recently, and we can’t go away.”

Eric nodded: “That’s fine, I’ll talk about it next time.”

Linda reacted at this time, and when she heard Cindy’s decision not to go, she couldn’t open her mouth any more. She just patted her flat belly, and her eyes couldn’t help but feel a little more resentment.

After breakfast, Eric first sent Cindy and Linda to work in the production company, and then he rushed to the headquarters of Firefly Investments.

After nine o’clock, Eric came to the office area of Firefly Investments in Building 50, Rockefeller Center. Under the guidance of the staff, he pushed the door and walked into a conference room. He found that Chris was leaning against the room alone. At the conference table, staring intently at a wall-mounted TV on the wall.

Flash Dance Novel Network

Finding Eric coming, Chris nodded in greeting, and immediately pointed to the TV screen.

Eric had already recognized the figure of a middle-aged judge on the TV screen that he had seen in the video a few days ago.

Came to Chris and leaned against him at the conference table, Thomas Jackson on the screen was being interviewed by CNN and showed a few pages of documents to the host: “After this period of evidence collection, we can already be 100% sure that Microsoft exists. Very serious monopolistic behavior. In my opinion, only by breaking up Microsoft and implementing stricter controls can this company prevent this company from further hindering normal competition in the industry.”

Listening to the middle-aged judge and the cnn host talking eloquently, Eric raised his hand and looked at his watch. It was already 9:15, only 15 minutes before the opening of the Nasdaq.

Chris noticed Eric’s actions and said, “It’s too late. Even if some people react, it’s impossible to respond effectively.”

Eric nodded in approval and understood what Chris meant.

According to some statistics over the weekend, the cumulative short position of the Nasdaq index in trading markets around the world is conservatively estimated to be no less than 60 billion US dollars. Such a large-scale capital force is accumulating a blow, and the stock market of any country in the world is are unbearable.

However, the current total market capitalization of Nasdaq stocks has reached 79 trillion US dollars.

Investors naturally don’t want such a huge fortune to disappear with the stock market crash.

Therefore, if the layout of the short-selling forces can be predicted in advance, an effective counterattack can certainly be made.

However, too many people are immersed in the joy that the Nasdaq index has just broken through 5,000 points, and have not been sufficiently alert to the trend of discussion in recent days.

Eric had anticipated this in advance, but the Firefly System didn’t have any plans to make a first move, let alone no such strength.

The collapse of the Nasdaq index, which has reached its peak, is an inevitable thing, and going against the trend will only be crushed to pieces.

Eric and Chris watched the situation calmly in the conference room of Firefly Investments, but for the securities industry, this is not destined to be a peaceful day.

With the rapid spread of the remarks made by Thomas Jackson, a judge in the Microsoft antitrust case, in an interview with CNN, coupled with a series of comments on the negative index over the weekend, whether it was a premeditated plan or a premonition that the crisis was coming, it was distributed in North America and even around the world. of stock managers noticeably find that there are significantly more orders to sell tech stocks today than ever before.

Finally, at 9:30 a.m., the Nasdaq index just opened, and a one-time stock selling order of more than $1 billion directly lowered Microsoft’s share price by more than 3 percentage points.

But this is far from over. In the following hour, almost all major technology stocks such as Yahoo, Cisco, Intel, and Amazon in the Nasdaq stock market ushered in huge selling orders.

After the demand for buying technology stocks, which was far from being able to hedge the scale of the sell-off, was quickly offset, large-scale stock selling orders began to squeeze, continuing to pull down the share prices of major technology stocks.

35xs

So panic started to spread.

More investors who got the news began to join the sell-off, and a terrible domino effect quickly formed.

At 4 p.m. ET, the Nasdaq finally closed at 4,960, down 19%.

But a string of major tech stocks that got big sell-offs suffered heavy losses.

Microsoft shares fell 83% in a single day.

Cisco shares fell 56% in a single day.

Yahoo shares fell 65% in a single day.

Intel shares fell 59%.

Amazon shares fell 96% in a single day.

However, this series of falling numbers that represent the disappearance of tens of billions of dollars in wealth is just the beginning.

At the same time, in the face of a gloomy Nasdaq market, Wall Street once again fully reflected its unscrupulous side.

The major investment bank analysts who were still hyping that the Nasdaq would hit the 6,000-point mark at a new high last week have changed their tone at this time, almost overwhelmingly belittling the investment value of technology stocks.

For the next four trading days, the Nasdaq fell by more than 100 points each day as the chain reaction from the stock market crash further fermented.

Although various methods from the federal government down to various new technology companies have tried to stabilize the Nasdaq index, the results have been very limited.

Because a large number of investors are using investment leverage recklessly in order to maximize profits during the last crazy period of the Nasdaq.

This also greatly reduces the ability of these investors to resist risks.

Generally, the investment leverage is about five to ten times, so that investors can only bear a decline of about 10% to 20% of a certain stock at most.

But in reality, many stocks tend to fall by more than 10% in a single day.

As the situation continues to deteriorate, it is no longer even for investors to decide whether to sell stocks.

In order to prevent losses from reaching unbearable levels, many financing institutions that provide capital guarantees for leveraged investors have to forcibly liquidate the stocks in the hands of customers.

A large amount of selling orders flowed to the market, further causing a vicious circle of stock price declines.

On July 23, a nightmare week for the new technology market finally came to an end. The Nasdaq closed at 4,373 points, a drop of 135% relative to last week’s peak of 5,056 points, and more than $1 trillion in wealth disappeared.

A series of leading technology stocks that led the Nasdaq market in the early stage generally fell more than the entire Nasdaq market.

Affected by Thomas Jackson’s remarks on Monday, Microsoft’s stock price fell by 227% in five days, and its market value fell from a peak of more than $600 billion to $469.9 billion.

Cisco, which has just taken the top spot in the world’s market capitalization, saw its stock price drop by 259% in a week, and its market value fell all the way to $453.1 billion.

Yahoo, which Eric has been paying attention to the most, also fell by 165% in five days, which was within Eric’s tolerance range, and the company’s market value remained above $200 billion, reaching $215.5 billion.

The stock prices of other Amazon, sprint, Qualcomm and other companies in the Firefly system were all spared, and they all fell to varying degrees.

In contrast, Nokia, which is listed on multiple stock exchanges in North America and Europe at the same time, was the least affected by the collapse of the Nasdaq. Coupled with its solid performance support, at the close of Friday’s market, its share price was only 39% higher than last week’s. fell.

In the early evening, Bill Gates hurried to Manhattan for a whole week because of Thomas Jackson’s comments on Monday, all the way to Eric’s penthouse at the entrance to Sixth Avenue.

When he saw that figure sitting leisurely next to the seat in the open-air garden on the rooftop, with his legs crossed, reading a newspaper and drinking coffee, Bill Gates felt a burst of depression in his heart.

Due to the success of Microsoft, he should have been one of the proudest people in the world with huge wealth, but in front of this young man, it was always difficult for Bill Gates to find any sense of superiority.

Sitting down on a chair unceremoniously, Bill Gates glanced at the newspaper in Eric’s hand and said, “Eric, you’d better give me a reason that will satisfy me.”

Eric folded the newspaper and put it in front of him, poured a cup of coffee for his classmates, pointed to the direction of the Hudson River not far away, and said with a smile, “Suddenly I felt that there should be a fireworks show recently, so I bought one. Ship, start at eight o’clock.”

Bill Gates didn’t touch the coffee in front of him, he subconsciously lowered his glasses and said, “Eric, don’t you think this is boring?”

“Okay,” Eric put away his expression, but obviously still looked helpless, and said: “We are serious, the current situation is very bad, Yahoo needs some good news, and the same is true for Microsoft, so we cooperate What’s it like?”

Bill Gates showed a contemptuous look: “Then what?”

Eric handed a folder to Bill Gates, opened the laptop next to him, and said, “I have drawn up the contract. However, let’s take a look at this first, you will definitely be interested, um, it’s a bit long. , or look directly from here.”

Eric said, adjusted the progress bar, turned the laptop screen to the door classmate, and pressed the play button.

A voice that Bill Gates was quite familiar with came from the loudspeaker immediately.

“Publicizing this kind of out-of-court remarks in public is a serious violation of judicial process, and it will probably ruin my career. So, $2 million is not enough, if it works, you need to pay me another $300 Ten thousand U.S. dollars.”

“Thomas, you’re so greedy, $2 million is a lot of money.”

“Don’t think I don’t understand this, Dean, at the size of your shorts, if the Nasdaq crashes, you can make at least billions of dollars. So, it’s not negotiable.”

There was a moment of silence in the video, before another voice sounded again: “Okay, I promise you.”

Eric looked at the widening eyes of Bill Gates on the opposite side, reached out and closed the laptop with a snap, picked it up and retracted it to his side.

Bill Gates raised his head suddenly as if being woken up from his sleep, glared at Eric, and realized his current situation in a blink of an eye, put away his expression and said, “Eric, it’s illegal for you to do this. of.”

Eric pointed to the door, shrugged and said, “If you’re not interested, do it yourself.”

Bill Gates swallowed and stared at Eric for a moment, before picking up the folder he just handed over and opening it.

After hurriedly flipping through it, Bill Gates quickly put it down and said, “It’s okay to give up that share subscription contract. But Yahoo browser continues to enjoy its original status on the Microsoft platform, which is simply impossible.”

“I didn’t think about such a good thing,” Eric said. “You must not have looked carefully. Yahoo can pay Microsoft $1 for pre-installation of each operating system.”

“But it’s only the equivalent of less than $50 million a year, Eric, if it were you, would you like it?”

“Of course I don’t want to,” Eric patted the laptop in front of him: “So, this is Yahoo’s compensation to Microsoft.”

“This video does not necessarily help Microsoft,” Bill Gates pretended to be disdainful: “Once exposed, it may even be counterproductive.”

“So, so far, the people who have watched this video and you have just put together a hand,” Eric said: “I have been thinking about this issue recently. Standing in our position, it is often very difficult. It’s hard to do things as we want. Too many times, we have to make compromises. Like this video, my first thought was to expose it, and then stand by and watch the fun. But then I realized, It seems that it will bring some benefits if it is not exposed, of course, this is for Microsoft, and Firefly cannot use this thing.”

Bill Gates narrowed his eyes: “Eric, are you implying me to threaten the Department of Justice?”

“It’s just a negotiation,” Eric shrugged: “Microsoft is now a victim, even a persecuted one. So even the president has to compromise. You know, Clinton can’t stand it anymore. Another political storm has started. But what is happening now is that a middle-aged judge has caused the entire Nasdaq market to crash for his own self-interest, and trillions of dollars of wealth have disappeared like a fireworks, I hear Investors who jumped off the building because of bankruptcy have already appeared this week. Then, once the scandal in the video is exposed, Thomas Jackson will definitely be the target of public criticism, but the Clinton administration, which has been strongly advocating for the investigation of Microsoft, must not stay out of it. Even if it does not happen again A second impeachment, but the countless angry investors who lost so much in the stock market crash would be enough to end the Clintons’ political careers, which is exactly what the two of them feared the most.”

[End of this Chapter]