Ripping off the rich felt pretty great. This was far from Harry's first time doing it.
The previous times, Harry had used advanced products to harvest wealth. This time, he was purely exploiting an information gap for "speculation." But Harry felt no shame about it; after all, they had done plenty of the same themselves.
There was another reason Harry had urged the nations to do this: many wealthy people had sponsored Roxxon this time. Afterward, they were investigated from top to bottom—tax evasion, illegal activities, and so on. Their assets were cut by more than half, and the United Nations specifically prohibited them from making further investments.
But after one batch was investigated, another would appear. There were simply too many clever people in this world who could come up with an idea on a whim. If all that "idle money" went into investments, who knew what kind of monster they might create.
The world did not need too many rich people. At least, that was what Norman and Harry believed.
All they needed was for each nation to release false information, such as: "Spirit God Star is merely another pile of space debris, worth far less than ten trillion dollars," then stir things up a little. Even amid the current economic downturn, gold remained a solid investment.
Nation-level market manipulation was more than enough to fool those wealthy people completely. There was nothing difficult about it.
Harry switched the projection. "Good. Now for the last matter: our future, everyone."
The sinking of Tokyo and the destruction of Japan had created far more pressure on the world than the Dark Elves' invasion or the Battle of New York ever had.
Extraterrestrial beings had come three times, and the consequences had grown more severe each time. This time, Tokyo had