When the first snow in winter came to New York State, it happened to be November 22, only 11 days later than November 11. The heavy snow was much more violent than the meteorological observatory's broadcast. When many residents woke up overnight, they were surprised to find that the whole city seemed to have become a silver-covered city of northern countries, and even Toronto was probably not as good as that.

"The temperature is low today. Please prepare for cold weather and pay attention to the arrival of moderate to heavy snow. In addition, a cold air coming from the North Atlantic Ocean..."

Yesterday's weather forecast was replayed from the TV. Now it's true. Lying on the living room sofa in his single apartment in Queens, New York, Harry Punez, who just woke up, was switching repeatedly on various stages while listening to the news from various channels.

Recently, Harry, who was just in his early twenties, found a job, using his superb computer technology to regularly maintain computers on the New York Stock Exchange. Because he showed his unmatched skills in front of executives, he even had a privilege, just go to the exchange every three days, and his salary was still calculated as a monthly salary.

According to Harry's judgment, his job was obviously the gains brought by the incident in March this year. Although from a single incident, the ibm case has been defeated by it not long ago and finally ended with tens of millions of dollars in compensation from Microsoft and Nasdaq, the entire world, which was finally one, was disrupted by this incident.

It was from May that the Nasdaq Exchange started with itself, and New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, all of these world-class large stock exchanges began a wave of large-scale recruitment of senior programmers, and none of them paid very high salaries.

According to Harry, the computer college students who graduated in June this year, including several Ivy League schools such as Stanford, suddenly ushered in a wave of inauguration. Not only major exchanges, but also many investment companies on Wall Street, many companies with deep connections with the Internet are also spending huge sums of money to recruit network administrators. Moreover, the higher the education level, the more exaggerated the salary increase, and it seems to have an attitude of only academic qualifications!

For a time, when September came again, the computer departments of major universities even ushered in a round of enrollment boom. When many fresh high school students learned that seniors who were four years older than their university actually easily entered some very high-end companies with a computer department certificate, it seemed that there was no suspense in their major choice.

Harry is such a beneficiary. As a New York University dropout, he was a little worried about taking a job. You know, because of the fact that his parents at home didn't say anything about it, but they were disappointed. Now it's easy to solve it!

So, this made Harry have the capital to go to work every three days at a young age, and he often ended his work in half a day. He could get a considerable amount of high monthly salary after working 30 hours a month. He could have laughed to death recently!

"Well... nothing seems to be good."

At this moment, he sat lazily on the sofa. After breakfast, when office workers in New York were struggling on the morning rush hour, he was worried about not knowing which TV show is better.

"Let's take a look at "Japan Observation".

After thinking about it, it seemed that it was time for the show to start, so Harry switched the channel to a certain stage.

"Japan Observation" is a program launched three years ago, around 1983, which happened to be the moment when the Japanese economy began to flourish. The program is one episode every week, specifically used to observe the economic development of the country in real time. Of course, related cultural industry trends will also be mentioned occasionally. For example, when the new Gundam animation is released, the tour guide made a special program with the development of Japanese animation in the past decade.

After the start of this episode, Harry realized that it specifically introduced Japan's investment in the United States.

“We are currently facing a worrying situation, and whether you believe it or not, Japan has invested a total of $3 billion in our Hawaii from November to the same period this year, specifically for real estate investment.”

The host on the TV said anxiously: "According to statistics from our reporters who went to Hawaii, in just this year, one-third of the luxury hotels in Pearl Harbor Beach Area, as well as a large number of buildings, large restaurants and shopping centers, two golf courses, as well as many livestock farms and plantations, have been under the capital management of Japan."

"According to statistics, from November 1980 to the same period of 1986, Japan's direct investment in the United States has increased by about eight times. This is a very terrifying situation. The most obvious data that everyone feels is that Japan's financial power has already accounted for 25% of the daily trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange!"

"We can't help but have such thoughts. Is the United States really going to sunset? The sun country in the east will really rise and buy our entire country as they wish?"

Seeing this program, before the experts invited to start speaking later, Harry changed the channel.

"Isn't it just that nonsense is trying to establish a negative image of Japan among the people?"

With such a sneer, Harry exchanged the channel back. The newly appeared guest was an expert studying Japan, and began to make rounds of judgments on the buying and buying he came here during this period.

"It's true that the focus of investment is real estate now."

Ignoring the experts on TV, Harry muttered himself: "When a country's economy develops greatly, it will definitely experience the real estate wave, but it is obvious that it will definitely plummet."

If you want to say what the difference between Harry and other classmates is that he knows how to use various ways to understand countless things that ordinary people don’t care about. Over time, even calling himself a miscellaneous scholar is OK. He understood the concept of financial bubbles as early as the sixth grade. The current situation in Japan is obviously the real estate bubble!

You should know that for most countries, even if real estate will really produce bubbles, it will only surge by one or two times in a long period of time. Japan's speed and degree have long exceeded this category. Almost anyone with discerning eyes can see that this is a typical bubble form.

Just like in the United States, when Harry had been bored earlier, he investigated the United States' own real estate price history for this incident in Japan.

He retreated a hundred years and set the price of 100 in 1890 as the standard, and it was around 120 in 1900, and then it fell back to its original position in just a few months. During the Great Depression in the 20s and 1930s, house prices fell to a low of 6 and 70. During World War II, the effects of Roosevelt's new policy were even erased and hovered in this range. But with the arrival of the Golden Age, prices immediately rebounded steadily and instantly returned to the level of 1900.

That's right, Harry clearly discovered that except for the 40% plunge in the Great Depression, for a full hundred years, housing prices across the United States have always remained in the 10% increase. That is, after entering the 1980s, the peak instantly broke through more than 20%, and then fell back in just a few months.

But what the hell is going on in Japan now?

In 1985, the price index of commercial land in Tokyo was 120, but now just one year later, its price has soared by more than 60%!

If Harry remembers correctly, it seems that at the beginning of this year, it is still 20%?

God, even if the United States is experiencing the Great Depression, it will only plummet by 40%!?

It took Japan half a year to achieve a 60% surge!?

And this momentum is not over yet!?

Harry had long told his friends online that if this was not a bubble, he would have cut off the Internet from now on!

Oh, yes, Harry has always been a geek. The so-called geek originally refers to the meaning of super intelligence and hard work, but is now used to describe people who are enthusiastic about computers and network technology and have devoted a lot of time to study. What new meanings will be in the future? As far as Harry feels now, he is of course worthy of this title.

Therefore, being free on the Internet as a hacker has certainly become an indispensable hobby.

In fact, Harry also gave himself a very interesting code name called hp.

Speaking of which, two years ago, Harry met a boy online. The nickname was km, a very arrogant guy who claimed to have invaded North American air protection command system many years ago.

Harry and Zeng km discussed the ibm incident, analyzed the technical feasibility, and even went to the Nasdaq Exchange network personally. The results prove that if they were willing to spend a while and carefully study the relevant program logic, it could really affect the system's statistical results of call bidding!

However, just as Harry was gloating about ibm, km came up with an ingenious idea.

"Can there be other super hackers deliberately hacked ibm?"

This idea can be, this idea can really be. After the two of them proved the possibility of this measure together, the authenticity of such a guess will naturally increase infinitely. The masters of ibm can do it, but since they two private people can do it...

In the entire American society, how many computer experts are hidden in it with evil tastes?

Unfortunately, Harry hasn't seen km online recently. He clearly agreed that he would greet him with a picture of a beautiful girl composed of 8 next time he met, but now he has disappeared.

What is km doing?

Harry said he was really interested.
Chapter completed!