The entire Precious Metals Exchange was filled with traders looking to buy gold. Occasionally, someone offered gold for sale, but the price was absurdly high.
But even at such an absurd price, someone would soon buy it.
Looking at the more than one thousand dollars in his hands—an amount that could not even be exchanged for a single Credit Point—the man felt utterly desperate!
Why is this happening? Many people had the same thought. Why was this happening?
"The economy is clearly recovering, so why is inflation still worsening? The ratio of privately held Federal Sol to gold has already exceeded the official Exchange Rate by more than half?"
In the Presidential Office, Catherine was asking the same question. She truly was not very good at this sort of thing.
In fact, it was not just her. Most Federal politicians were not particularly knowledgeable about fields outside their own.
They did not need to understand such complicated knowledge. They did not need to know what reaction would occur when one substance was added to another, nor did they need to know how the heat generated differed between wearing a condom and not wearing one. They certainly did not need to understand what had happened at some particular point in history.
They were politicians. They only needed to master the skills of political struggle and choose what they believed to be a viable option when faced with various choices.
Bowling President, Mr. Truman, Conner, and Catherine—all of them failed to understand these things. But that did not stop them from becoming Federal President, nor did it prevent the Federation from developing well over the years.
Lin Qi sat nearby. He put down the newspaper in his hand and gave a simple explanation.
"Because people's confidence is shifting, and so is the