Frien's idea was actually quite simple: use his connections to find a group of interested investors and establish a fund similar to Lu Zhou's Tian Cang Five (Tau Ceti) Extrasolar System Colonization Fund.
The only difference was that he would set his sights somewhere other than Zeta Ceti, preferably somewhere closer to the Solar System.
And the fund would be offered to the public.
However, the idea really was all too easy to come up with.
When he arrived at Wall Street's largest commercial bank with his documents, ready to complete the necessary formalities, he was surprised to find a long line already stretching through the lobby.
Judging by their clothing and appearance, those people clearly weren't there to withdraw money...
Leaving aside the long lines at several of Wall Street's commercial banks, things unfolded just as Frien had anticipated. On the very day the establishment of the Tian Cang Five Extrasolar System Colonization Fund made headlines on Wall Street, the entire world was stunned by the unexpected news!
"This could open up an entirely new business model!"
During an interview on the ABC Television Network's financial program, renowned Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences laureate Paul Krugman spoke excitedly.
"In the past, most of our investment activities have operated on a timescale of years. Apart from trust products designed to avoid inheritance taxes, even investment products focused on long-term returns have rarely planned for returns more than a century away."
"In the short term, compared with other hot sectors with greater investment potential, focusing investment on space exploration isn't actually a wise choice. You could even say the profits are meager. But if we look a century-or even several centuries-into the future, the space industry, which offers no short-term profit, is in fact intimately connected to our future. This funding