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- Li Zhuang usually eats at home and rarely in the company canteen, because his mother-in-law Sophia's craftsmanship is as good as the canteen chef. In fact, many researcher families choose to cook at home, which is more cozy.
During the meal, Lisa mentioned what happened in August and was a little curious, "Are you really planning to build an aircraft carrier for the navy? That thing is a gold-eating beast."
"Enemies, why else would the military industrial group build a large 150,000-ton shipyard in La Grange? With our current strength, we can support three aircraft carrier formations." Li Zhuang did not hide this from his wife, Lisa knew that he The person with the most secrets.
"No way, are you planning to build the aircraft carrier as big as Citi's?" Lisa didn't know the specific data and was very surprised.
"With this idea, do you think that the company has 10,000 PhD-level people in the field of shipbuilding and oceanography just to build civilian ships? According to the area of ????the LaGrange Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering Institute, I plan to recruit 50,000 researchers in the long term. "
"Haha, do you think you are Washington and have seigniorage, or do you think artificial gold will definitely succeed?"
¡°Eat when you eat, sleep when you sleep, and calmly face the mind troubled by life.¡± Li Zhuang decided not to talk about this topic anymore.
Lisa didn¡¯t say anything anymore. Sofia was coaxing a few dolls beside her. She was now focused on the four third generations and didn¡¯t care about other matters at all.
The sloppy guy doesn¡¯t have high requirements for eating, so don¡¯t expect him to wash dishes. The equipment at home is a collection of top products from the smart home laboratory. There are so many lazy people in the world. Sales of the wai smart home system have far exceeded expectations. The accompanying home service robots are a signature product for the elite to show off their quality of life.
"The world is driven by technological progress by lazy people!" Li Zhuang said to himself while walking in the garden after dinner. Lisa next to him smiled and hit him mercilessly, "You are very lazy, but artificial intelligence research The hospital¡¯s employees are working overtime and the supporting projects are very cumbersome.¡±
Li Zhuang touched his nose, but was not embarrassed. He counterattacked confidently, "The value I create is worthy of my income. They are not as smart as me, so they naturally have to work overtime."
Lisa didn¡¯t know what to say about him. It sounded impeccable. In fact, the company¡¯s top executives were helpless at the chairman¡¯s behavior. He is the true founder and major shareholder of United Technologies. He is the person who creates the most value for the company, but the money he receives is not even as good as that of the middle managers. Not because he was pretending, but because he didn't even have time to spend money. United Technologies Corporation is a super organization comparable to that of a country. It has never been seen before. The top management members who have been upgraded to a joint meeting of seventy-seven people are very busy every day.
"What's going on with the Alchemy Furnace Project? Artificial gold is fun." Lisa mentioned this again.
"This was Mei Yifan's research topic at first, but we heard it as a joke at first. After the Institute of Theoretical Physics was established, Durand asked me to name the comprehensive research plan, and I thought of 'Alchemy Furnace'. In fact, it It is a joint research project of multiple institutes, such as nanomaterials, superconductivity, accelerators, particle research, metal purification and separation, spallation neutron sources and nuclear reactors, etc. Hello, can you understand?"
Lisa shook her head blankly, and Li Zhuang had no intention of proceeding. This matter was more complicated than most people imagined, involving multiple disciplines. He could only show it off with the technical description of Jacob Sizmatiya, the person in charge of the "Alchemy Furnace" project. The electronic document had tens of thousands of pages.
¡°It would be great if we could really achieve low-cost manufacturing of gold, and we wouldn¡¯t have to worry about successive financial crises.¡± Lisa was fascinated, but Li Zhuang laughed dumbly.
"Money can only show its effect when trade occurs. The output value created within the company is higher than the number expressed by currency. Otherwise, how do you think the materials in our warehouses come from. Of course, gold also has benefits, although it cannot prevent financial crises. But it can make the currency depreciation rate extremely low. Ordinary people don¡¯t have to worry about their deposits being stolen unless the bank collapses. But that¡¯s a business issue, two different things. Forget it, I¡¯m not studying this. I can¡¯t figure it out. I guess No one can completely figure it out, including those masters."
Just as she was talking, Lisa's cell phone rang. She answered the phone and chatted and laughed with her.
"who?"
"Liu Jing asked me to come over and sit down, will you go?"
"You go ahead, I have to think about the problem." Li Zhuang doesn't like visiting, and besides, he is really busy. The attitude towards artificial gold within the company is completely different, and there is a big commotion. Many people think that the company is really going to play with artificial gold. gold. Now he just wants to slap himself in the mouth. If he hadn't been lazy, he wouldn't have chosen this name. It's not possible to change the name now. There is no three hundred taels of silver in this place.
After sending Lisa away, the computer expert continued to think about financial problems that were completely unfamiliar to him. Mei Yifan once sent him an email??What he was talking about was the gold standard. Some of his views were not new, but some of his words were indeed refreshing to him.
Mei Yifan believes that at least half of the economics articles in the media today are hydrology, the thugs of vested interests, and are not purely academic. The issuance logic basis of metal standard currency and credit standard currency are different, and their currency value stability is stronger than that of credit currency. Scholars studying historical data have concluded that under the gold standard, inflation rarely persisted, rather than hyperinflation occurring frequently since the 1970s.
Some people say that the golden age after World War II was caused by the abandonment of the gold standard. Mei Yifan thinks this view is purely funny. Li Zhuang felt that Mei Yifan had a point. Every major scientific and technological revolution would lead to huge improvements in industrial productivity. Attributing the credit for technology to finance only meant that it was a rule of human society, not economics.
The advantages of the international gold standard are many, such as the stability of the internal and external value of each country's currency, the free play of gold as a world currency, the promotion of commodity production, the expansion of international trade and capital export, and the ability to automatically adjust the international balance of payments.
The current U.S. dollar-centered monetary system is completely subject to Citigroup¡¯s domestic policies. In recent years, they have received at least three trillion U.S. dollars in seigniorage.
There is a saying that goes well, "Would your parents raise other people's children?" Citigroup is not a great country, but it thinks a lot about its own citizens. This is why they often transfer domestic crises to other countries. If you are not a Taoist, you can also make others busier so that you can fish in troubled waters.
??Wall Street, known as one of Citigroup¡¯s four major advantageous industries, has a positive role for big banks, but there are not many good investment companies. It's called investment, but it's more of speculation and thieving. In addition to frequently disrupting the international trade order and speculating on various materials, what they like to do most is to collude with unstable ruling forces internally and externally to hollow out the wealth created by the citizens of other countries.
Information from the disintegration of the former Soviet Union describes their behavior in great detail. They were able to do outrageous things like selling a tank for ten thousand or even a few thousand dollars. Even selling alloy steel plates cost far more than this amount. And now these are in staged in another country.
Mei Yifan believes that as long as the gold supply problem can be solved, it is entirely possible to return to the international gold standard, without deflation affecting economic growth, and at the same time curbing the desire of human ruling forces to rob.
The instability of the euro is not due to a problem with the thinking of the euro itself, but because it needs exchange. Once there is an economic problem in a country in the euro zone, the value of the euro itself will be affected, which will in turn affect international trade. This is a weakness that credit currencies cannot overcome.
He put forward a perfect idea, a more thorough freely convertible gold standard based purely on gold circulation. This is a way to solve the problem of stagnant production and unemployment of workers caused by monetary tightening due to gold export when a country has an international balance of payments deficit, and at the same time avoids the inherent flaw of uneven gold reserves in various countries.
Establish a unified global central bank, based on gold reserves, issue gold certificates that are common to all countries in the world. There are two difficulties with this plan. One is that the ruling powers of various countries are never willing to lose their currency issuance rights. Many politicians claim that currency rights are a sign of sovereignty. One of the underlying reasons is that if the people do not use the waste paper issued by them, it will be difficult for them to steal wealth by being thieves. Increasing the amount of protection fees is an act of banditry, which is obvious at a glance and can easily arouse resistance.
The second is that it is not easy to determine the actual economic scale of each country, the true output value and value of industry, agriculture, services and science and technology. The initial allocation is difficult and requires a sufficient transition period, and what will happen during this period is unknown.
Credit currency is a road of no return. The most obvious sign is that with the development of the economy, the gap between rich and poor is getting wider and wider. This is something that is happening all over the world and is not a special case. The pyramid shape is the most common social structure in human society and is related to human nature. Most developed countries have an olive-shaped social structure, and Citigroup is a typical representative.
The quasi-spherical social structure is a type of olive-shaped social structure, which is more stable. Most of them are countries with a single ethnic group. The most typical ones are Japan and Germany.
¡°If it weren¡¯t for nuclear bombs, our planet might have already experienced the Fifth World War. The uneven distribution of social wealth when it increases dramatically cannot be solved by science, but depends on morality, human nature and cultural systems. There are still pros and cons.¡±
"I am not Hitler, tell the truth." Mei Yifan wrote the last sentence.
Li Zhuang couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this. Mei Yifan is a guy who enjoys life very much. Although he used to be a teacher, he is not sour. His main job at the Financial Division Research Center is to improve the internal fund management system of United Technologies Corporation and to study gold technology.??His hobby.
Over the past two hundred years, the value of gold has not changed much. On the contrary, paper currency has depreciated rapidly. In the late period of the gold standard system, the gold content of the US dollar was 1.50466 grams, but now the gold price in US dollars in the gold market fluctuates at US$100/gram.
There seems to be no one who dislikes gold. Shakespeare described the power of gold, but the records of the power of paper money in history are almost all negative. Gold itself is valuable. According to the speed of technological advancement of artificial gold, the annual depreciation rate is almost negligible compared with the speed of economic development.
Li Zhuang has no idea of ????being a savior. The Financial Division of United Technologies Corporation is now a veritable predator and a member of the group of thieves on the earth. Let alone whether low-cost gold production can be achieved, if Mei Yifan's vision can be realized in the future, the financial division will have less room to make profits.
"My butt really determines my head, no, I want to save mankind!" The computer expert raised his arms and shouted, and the national treasure came from nearby to curse: "You are crazy!"
Li Zhuang hurried up to say hello. The Kung Fu Panda had relatively little time for walks, so there must be something good going on.
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