In recent months, the two countries with a stake in Gorky's corporate interests have been preparing for the upcoming elections, and in Colombia, the current president Quartas is coming to an end of his term, leaving behind a fractured and conflicted country in which his successor will respond, and the attitude of Quartas's successor to the growing guerrillas and drug traffickers in the country will determine whether peace can return to the country, but it seems that the Colombian people are still superstitious about the Americans.
The current ambassador to the United States, Vargas, seems to be the most vocal and has a good chance of winning the election to become the next president of Colombia.
Vargas was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went into exile in the United States in the forties, and after that, except for a brief stint as mayor of Bogotá, Vargas has always been active on the international stage, serving as ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom for a long time, and an executive of the World Bank.
If such a president came to power, Escobar and the guerrilla forces would definitely be dealt a harsher blow.
So in order to take precautions, Escobar manipulated a group of politicians who obeyed his orders and firmly controlled the Medellín City Council.
At the same time, in order to win the support of the population, Escobar embarked on a generous program to build housing, stadiums, and sponsorship of several professional soccer teams for the city's poor population.
Escobar's move has made Medellín's residents feel more favorable about him, and Medellín's national television continues to report on how vicious, ruthless, and dangerous drug traffickers are.
However, Medellín's newspapers, radio and television stations sang the praises of Escobar from morning to night, and most of Medellín's poor people were not educated enough and lacked a basic sense of right and wrong, so Escobar spent only a small amount of money to make most of Medellín's poor people regard him as a hero of the land.
While the intellectuals of Medellín sneered at Escobar, the poor held Escobar up to the sky.
And the media, which prides itself on impartiality, did not hesitate to choose the latter in the face of the bullets and dollar bills of drug dealers.
As Escobar's reputation grew, Escobar's recruitment of soldiers against the Colombian government forces became smoother, and even the arms business with Valentin became more and more prosperous.
In order to ensure the concealment of the transportation route, Seryosha chose the end point of the shipping in Panama, where MSC cargo ships would transport the goods to Panamanian ports, and then the Panamanian trucking companies would transport the goods by land to Medellín.
As for the other country that is about to face a general election, it is Japan, where Mikhail now lives.
Mikhail's acquaintance with the richest man in his dealings with Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was indeed a talented person, and with his help, Mikhail got acquainted with many high-ranking members of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Mikhail also opened the door for Jiang's real estate company to raise funds, using Seryosha's relationship with the British banking community to assist Jiang's real estate company and the Seibu Group, the richest man in Tsutsumi, to raise funds from overseas consortiums.
Under Mikhail's operation, the debts of the two companies were converted into high-quality bonds and flowed into the stock exchange in Tokyo.
Mikhail only had to pass to earn a lot of money for the Gorky family.
During this period of time, the yen did not stop its continued surge, and now the exchange rate of the yen against the dollar has broken through the record 160 mark and is approaching the 150 sub-mark.
At Seryosha's behest, Mikhail kept borrowing large sums of dollars from the European and American markets, which were then converted into yen through the Bank of Tokyo.
Although there is a certain interest cost for the borrowed dollar, it is not comparable to the rate at which the yen rises.
As Bank Colombia invested more and more in the Japanese bond and foreign exchange markets, Mikhail gradually began to be a little overwhelmed.
So he asked Bill Gross, the head of the bond business at Bank of Colombia, to take over the business one after another.
However, Bill Gross made a less optimistic conclusion about Mikhail.
"President, I don't think our investment in Japan will have many good days, and the rapid depreciation of the dollar is likely to prompt the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department to intervene."
Bill Gross said in a firm tone.
"Bill, if you want to teach me the principles of economics, please think of me as an ordinary person who doesn't know anything, I don't know much about esoteric and obscure economic theories.
As long as you can convince me, I agree to adjust the business your way.
Mikhail was not angry with Bill Gross's doubts, on the contrary, he was happy to listen to the abilities of the man whom Seryosha valued.
"Okay, President, then I'll get straight to the point, since the Plaza Accord was signed, the dollar has depreciated a little too fast.
If this continues, then by the end of the year, the next quarter of US Treasury sales will suffer.
While a weaker dollar will benefit U.S. businesses and the economy, no administration will rely on increased corporate tax revenues to sustain government spending.
Our government is basically relying on the issuance of bonds to sustain its finances.
Now that the dollar is depreciating too fast, inflation is rising, and the yield on US Treasuries is continuing to fall, if it continues like this, I think our government will not be able to pay attention to its bonds next year.
So I think the Treasury will definitely adjust the current exchange rate before the start of the bond issuance cycle next year, so I think the end of the year is the best time for us to withdraw from Japan," Bill Gross finally suggested.
Mikhail did not immediately reply to Bilgros's suggestion, and he relayed Bilgros's words to Seryosha as they were.
Seryosha made his own judgment after a day of thinking.
He basically agrees with Bill Gross's conclusion, which makes sense, that taxes seem important to Europe and the United States, but they are nothing compared to bond sales.
In the current economic system of the West, bonds are the most important means of government financing.
Taxes, on the other hand, are just interest for Wall Street investors.
So Seryosha quickly high-speed Mikhail four words fell into the bag for safety. t1706231537: