"Let our enemies help us bring themselves down!"
That sounded like the kind of nonsense someone spouted after getting high and scrambling his brain. Who the hell would help an enemy punch himself twice? But in the world of capital, this wasn't nonsense or gibberish. It was something that could very well happen! In the game of capital, no matter how absurd something was, it wasn't strange, because the core rule of this game was very simple.
If someone made money, someone else lost money.
And the money earned by the person making money would be at least equal to the amount lost by the person losing money.
In other words, "punching yourself twice" was, in a sense, simply moving wealth from one hand to the other. There were far too many examples of such operations.
After thinking for a while, someone in the room voiced an objection. "It's not suitable for us to contact them right now, at least not before the World Development Committee passes this proposal."
"If they find out now what we're trying to do—our real objective—there's a good chance they'll take massive losses just to target us."
"After all, the Federation's Anti-Monopoly Law is a joke. But our threat to the Federal Savings Bank and the Federal Sol is very real."
Everyone soon reached a consensus, then returned to their own tasks in an orderly fashion.
As long as the plan succeeded, the Federal Sol's weight in the international foreign-exchange market would begin to stagnate, or even decline! After all, they still had a whole series of plans waiting to be implemented!
By early March, the Federal Savings Bank still hadn't found the people who had reported them. They had hired the Federation's most outstanding hunter teams—
There was an ancient profession in Federation society: