It was as if everything was getting better.
Akumali's ideas had pointed the way forward for World Peace, the global economy was recovering, and market demand was growing once again. It was as if everything had returned to ten years ago...
Sudden cries of alarm rang out from Bu Peien's futures exchange. Even pedestrians by the roadside were drawn over by the commotion.
They stood outside and watched for a while.
No one was tearing at anyone else's hair and fighting, nor had anyone fallen from the roof. The pedestrians waiting for a spectacle left in disappointment.
The people who had cried out were still frozen in shock.
"Silver's gone up again!" A Stock Broker paced back and forth by the wall with a telephone in hand. His face was flushed red with excitement.
In just one short morning, the price of silver had risen by three percent. Don't think three percent was an insignificant figure.
People who traded futures often used leverage—two times, five times, or even ten times.
That three percent now meant six percent, fifteen percent, or thirty percent to those using leverage! What other business could bring a thirty-percent return on total investment in a single morning? None!
That was also why finance so often drove people mad. Wealth that many people might struggle their entire lives to obtain could possibly be achieved here in the blink of an eye.
All it took was a particularly favorable quote, followed by holding steady for a while. It was that simple! "This is an excellent buying opportunity. You've already missed the earlier movement, you know?"
"If you'd done what I told you back then and invested one hundred thousand, then had me find someone to leverage it fourfold, you might already have five or six hundred thousand!"
"You