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Today is January 1th, and technology stocks not only show no signs of crashing, but are still advancing.Especially after Eaglet's 25 full-year financial report press conference on Wednesday, the new technology giant rose sharply in the next two trading days, and even brought the Nasdaq to a new high.

As of the close of the week on Friday yesterday, the Nasdaq index has reached 6317 points, compared with 11 points on the day of the US election on November 6 last year, a cumulative increase of 5426%.

As for Eaglet, compared with the market value of 11 billion US dollars on November 6, the market value at the close of yesterday has reached 5796 billion US dollars. In less than three months, the cumulative increase is as high as 7519%.

More and more media and the public are beginning to believe that Eaglet will become the first giant with a market value of trillions.

Richard Mellon Scaife's US$3 million capital was mainly used for several months to establish short contracts for Nasdaq futures and short-selling leading technology stocks such as Eaglet. At first, Scaife was able to avoid using Too much leverage, but with more and more floating losses on the book, in order to recover the capital, Scave gradually increased his position.

The result is that the losses continue to increase.

By the close of yesterday, Richard Mellon Scaife had lost more than 50% of his various short positions, and now he has less than 3 million US dollars of the original 1.5 million US dollars of funds.

On last year's Forbes 400 richest people in the United States, as one of the six members of the Mellon family, Richard Mellon Scaife has a net worth of 6 million US dollars, most of which are inherited from his parents. Mellon Financial Group, Alcoa, Chevron and other companies that came to him flew stock assets, and the 7 million US dollars of funds he borrowed were all mortgaged by these assets.

Now, once the 3 million US dollars of funds are wiped out, it not only means that Scafe's net worth will be severely reduced, but also means that the sharp drop in his holdings is likely to cause him to lose the hidden power represented by those stocks in his hands.

The Mellon family's control over companies such as Mellon Financial Group, Alcoa, and Chevron is not only due to their family background, but mainly because of their intricate holdings.

The same is true through the influence of these corporate giants on fields such as federal politics and economy.

Therefore, once this hedging operation fails, at least his own branch will suffer greatly.

If he could regret it, Richard Mellon Scaife vowed that he would never act on his temper at the beginning, but unfortunately, there is no chance of regret in this world.

After smashing all the furniture and furnishings in the living room, Richard Mellon Scaife, who was sitting alone in the "ruins", calmed down a little, and then called Julian Robertson, the head of the Tiger Fund. .

In the past few years, millions of dollars have been spent digging up Clinton's black material, and the White House is definitely out of the game.On the Congress side, although the Westeros system was quite restrained last year, the large-scale election of Simon Westeros in the 94 mid-term election still made active members of Congress feel lingering. The influence is getting deeper and deeper, and no one seems to be offended.

The last resort, wanting to start directly from the Fed, still failed to work.

Now, on Washington's side, he has nothing to do.

I can only look forward to Julian Robertson's efforts. After all, compared with his 3 million US dollars, the Tiger Fund has tens of billions of dollars of huge funds that are currently on the short side. Scave doesn't know the current float of the Tiger Fund. How much is the loss, thinking about it is equally disastrous.

Either way, it's time to give it a go.

Simon came to the east coast as usual for the weekend.

Richard Mellon Scaife met with a committee of the Federal Reserve Executive Committee on Saturday afternoon. Simon got the news that night. In order to prevent that committee member from doing "stupid things", he passed the news directly to the White House .

I believe that Clinton, who has been dug up by Scaife for several years and has not completely gotten rid of the trouble, will definitely "pacify" that committee member.

It is probably guessed that the short side is about to exert force, but Simon's schedule rhythm has not been affected in the slightest.

On Saturday night, as agreed, I invited Natasha Richardson, who had met at the Sundance Film Festival last time, to have dinner together, and things followed suit.

The next day is Sunday, August 1rd.

It was still cold in New York at the end of January, and the snow-covered Central Park could be seen from the restaurant in the morning.

Natasha Richardson got up late, and when she sat in the dining room, the man had already eaten half of his breakfast, and when the waitress delivered a lunch and left, the woman couldn't help but give someone a blank look, with obvious "Simon, I find you really evil."

Although accusing someone, Natasha Richardson herself blushed first.

In the upstairs bedroom last night, after all, she hadn't known each other for long, and she was still quite nervous, so when a guy suggested watching a movie to relax, she agreed.

As a result, someone put on a copy of Zoom.

This is a 1966 work by Italian film master Michelangelo Antonioni, 30 years ago.Of course, this is not the point, the problem is that the heroine of "Blow-Up", Vanessa Redgrave, is her mother.

Facing the woman's reproach, Simon smiled and said, "Nata, don't you think this is a great movie?"

"Of course," Natasha Richardson nodded subconsciously, and then said: "But, you are still too evil."

"But," Simon said innocently, "I think you were very excited last night, too?"

Natasha, who had just picked up a small bread, heard this, grabbed a piece and threw it at the man opposite.

Simon caught it casually, stuffed it into his mouth, and said, "Well, only evil people can see evil. For me, what I see is only beauty. Didn't you realize that in the fashion of the 60s, put Not outdated by now? I just asked A to recommend this movie to Melisandre for some inspiration. Well, the solid color shift dress is really beautiful, and you should try it too, Your style fits perfectly."

When Natasha Richardson heard this, she gave someone a sideways glance: "You mean, I'm suitable for straight skirts?"

"Yeah, because you're straight."

Then another piece of bread was smashed over.

Simon failed to catch it this time, half-jokingly: "I should really send you to Africa to see those starving people who can't eat."

Natasha just glared at someone.

After breakfast, Simon didn't immediately get rid of the woman he was ONS with just now. He happened to have a meeting in the morning, so he brought her with him. On the other side was Martin Scorsese.

About Gangs of New York.

The original "Gangs of New York," produced by Miramax and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis, cost $1 million and turned out to be far from successful at $1.9 million worldwide.

Coupled with the unsatisfactory performance of another blockbuster "Cold Mountain" in the same period, the rift between the Weinstein brothers and their old club Disney became more and more irreparable, and they finally parted ways.

The two brothers have always wanted to make a blockbuster with a big investment and a big budget. Unfortunately, anyone with a little brain should understand that literary and artistic films cannot do this.

Unfortunately, inflated people are often irrational.

This is also a lesson for Simon.

For any literary film, the upper limit of investment set by Simon is at most 5000 million U.S. dollars, no matter how high it is, unless there are other special reasons.

"Gangs of New York" is a special one.

The story of the film comes from a novel of the same name published in 1928 that Martin Scorsese read, and he had an idea in the 70s, and it has been promoted continuously for many years. At first, because of the success of the "Godfather" series, there was a slight hint of success. Died after the box office flop of Once Upon a Time in America in the 80s.

Until now.

Old Martin has always been obsessed with this matter. Simon happened to have a suitable amount of funds in his hand, and this movie was not an absolute failure in his memory, so he decided to cast it.

Of course, there are more important reasons.

Xiao Lizi, one of the leading actors.

Now Xiao Li has just finished filming "Titanic", and was tossed by Cameron for more than half a year. The first film, the box office can be imagined.

On the other hand, Simon does not intend to give Martin Scorsese 1 million US dollars this time, only 6500 million. After all, this is a feature film that does not require special effects. Now I have to sign it before the big ship is released. The film contract and the film salary are also very cheap, the same is true for Daniel Day Lewis, 6500 million is more than enough.

In terms of schedule, "Gangs of New York" will definitely not be produced this year.

After Simon agreed to start "Shakespeare in Love", Ella Deutschman has successfully invited Daniel Day-Lewis, so the actor will definitely not have time this year, and he will have to wait until next year at the earliest.

Similarly, for Xiao Lizi, it would be even better to start filming next year. As long as the big boat is released, "Gangs of New York" will definitely attract the attention of the public when it starts filming. Si and other gimmicks that have been brewing for more than 5000 years are almost foolproof.