"George, how about you, the baseball manager, do you think you are okay?" Xia Tian asked Xiao Bushi with a smile.

He came to Texas from California not just to promote Harry Potter. His more important purpose was to visit his old friend Xiao Bushi.

Although the American ruler is Bill Clinton of the Democratic Party and Xia Xue has a good relationship with the new president, Xia Tian has no intention of giving up the Bushi family.

Not to mention that Xiao Bushi is likely to run for US President, the influence of the Bushi family in the American political arena alone is enough to continue to win over and support him.

Although Lao Bushi lost the election, the people in the country still have high expectations within the party. He also started to make arrangements early to pave the way for his two sons Xiao Bushi and Jeb Bushi to take over the Baigong. It can be said that the fire of the Bushi family has not yet been extinguished and is still hot.

"It's not bad." Xiao Bushi said proudly, "My team has achieved great results in the past two years. There will be a game the day after tomorrow. How about the seat?"

Xia Tian smiled, "I really want to see it, but my itinerary this time is too tight, I'm afraid I can't take time. So, next time."

"Next time, the team manager will not be me." Xiao Bushi waved his hand.

"Oh?!What happened?" Xia Tian asked curiously.

"I'm going to run for the governor, and my younger brother Jeb is going to run for the governor of Florida, too." Xiao Bushi explained.

"Congratulations, congratulations." Xia Tian clapped his hands and smiled, "I will give you the best support."

"Thank you." Xiao Bushi nodded happily.

Although running for governor is cheaper than running for president, it costs at least 30 to 40 million US dollars.

If there is summer support, Xiao Bushi will be relieved. Otherwise, just raising funds will involve a lot of energy.

Just like when Silari participated in the presidential election, she had to go to fundraisers, breakfast parties, lunch parties, cocktail parties, dinner parties, private parties, etc. Otherwise, she wouldn't have enough money to advertise.

But she was busy raising funds so much that she had less chances of contact with voters, so that she was always inferior to her opponent, VIP, in terms of inciting people's hearts, resulting in her ultimate defeat in the election.

"You don't have to be polite, good friends should help each other." Xia Tian smiled.

"That's right." Xiao Bushi nodded with understanding.

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"By the way, how have you done your investment in Russia in the past two years?" Xiao Bushi asked curiously again.

At the beginning, he and Xia Tian invested in Russia, but later he had to withdraw from these businesses because he wanted to enter the political circle. Otherwise, being caught by political enemies in the future would be a very troublesome thing.

Although he has no connection with the Russian future business now, Xiao Bushi still wants to know how the business there is. This kind of mood is probably similar to the situation where his ex-boyfriend is worried about his ex-girlfriend.

"At this stage, I'm just investing money in it. If you really want to make money, I don't know that you have to wait until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month." Xia Tian knew his mood and waved his hand with a smile.

He bought mineral resources in Russia, such as oil, natural gas, coal mines, iron ore, lead, zinc, potassium and nickel. Now that the Russian economy is in a collapse, the prices of these resources have fallen to bargain prices, which are very cheap.

But then again, it is not easy to mine these resources and sell them for money.

First, Russia has a vast land and sparsely populated areas, and many mineral resources are distributed in few places with inconvenient transportation. If you want to mine, you have to invest a lot of money in infrastructure construction.

In comparison, countries such as Patsima, Australia, and Atgotten have very rich mineral resources and are easier to mine. Therefore, compared with those of these countries, the mining cost alone is much higher, so it is naturally not that easy to make money.

Second, the prices of mineral resources around the world are relatively low now, such as oil, natural gas, etc., and the prices have been hovering at low prices. So although they buy very cheaply in summer, they still have no money to make money because they sell very cheaply.

However, Xia Tian knew that with the end of the Cold War, countries will rush to develop their economies first and have a greater demand for resources.

Because modern industry is based on the massive consumption of resources, such as electricity requires coal, manufacturing requires minerals, transportation requires oil... These all require a large amount of resources. So in the future, the resource prices will get higher and higher, so it still has money to make money.

However, these words are not suitable to tell Xiao Bushi. He was forced to withdraw from Russia. If he knew that he would make a lot of money in the future, he would definitely be jealous.

This has nothing to do with character, it has something to do with human nature.

Sure enough, Xiao Bushi laughed when he heard Xia Tian say this, "Okay, I believe your vision is correct."

"Thank you for saying that. To be honest, I regret why I had to invest in minerals in the past. If I were to play finance, I would have made a lot of money now." Xia Tian smiled.

Now the Russian economy is in chaos.

Because Russian president Ye Liqin is implementing "shock therapy" to reform the economy. The key to shock therapy is to lift price control, privatize factories and construction sites, reduce government spending, implement international trade, and freedom of investment.

In short, it is to fully open up the domestic market and convert public ownership into privatization.

In this way, foreign capital invaded Russia's internal industry was already fragile and was maintained by a planned economy.

Now that he has lost the support of the government, he is hit by foreign low-cost and affordable goods and has lost all the market. This has put Russia's domestic industry on the verge of collapse, and Russia has thus become the dumping place for foreign goods.

The transformation of public ownership into private ownership has also led to a large number of corruption in China. A large number of officials and capitalists colluded, and one oligarch after another was born.

They are like borers, madly embezzling the country's assets and thus become super rich with billions of dollars.

On the other hand, ordinary people in Russia have lost a lot of jobs due to the collapse of their own industries and caused people to live in poverty.

At this time, in order to stimulate the economy, Russia began to issue a large amount of currencies, causing the ruble to depreciate significantly. In 1991, it took only 5 kobbi (0.05 rubles) to take the subway in Mocho. By 1994, it had risen to 400 rubles, up 8,000 times.

In addition, the general commodity prices have also risen more than a thousand times. It can be seen that Russia's subsequent inflation is really serious. This has also led to a major economic decline, with GDP almost shrunk by half, and it has even been surpassed by Spain, Patsima and South Korea.

However, the collapse of Russia's economy and the depreciation of the ruble are great news for financial giants like Soros.
Chapter completed!