An Investor Who Sees The Future

I stated the specific plan.

"While Seosung SB develops the battery pack and prepares for mass production, we will mine Geratinium from the moon and bring it to Earth. SpaceX is handling this."

The company at the forefront of the lunar resource mining business is SpaceX, the world's largest private space company.

I had already spoken to Allen Eberhardt. I told him to send a spaceship to the moon as soon as possible, regardless of the cost.

"OTK Company and SpaceX are cooperating in the electric aircraft field through a joint venture. We are now expanding this to the space field."

Taek-gyu added a comment.

"Allen Eberhardt said he'll make it succeed no matter what."

He has made many impossible things possible.

He founded Nikola and opened the era of electric cars, merged with a solar power company called Solaland to show the potential of renewable energy, and created SpaceX to open a new era in the space industry.

He plans to build a colony on Mars, launch 10,000 satellites into low orbit to connect the world, and build electric aircraft. Lunar resource mining is one of them.

A project that he pursues with conviction has a high probability of success.

Team Leader Jung Gi-hong, who had been listening quietly because it was a field he was not familiar with, cautiously raised his hand.

"Excuse me... but even if there's a lot of rare earth elements on the moon, how do we know where and how much Geratinium is buried? It will take time to explore the entire moon."

The idea that there is Geratinium on the moon is in the realm of prediction. But the fact that it's in the Sea of Tranquility is in the realm of foresight.

I looked for as much related data as I could, but there was nothing that specifically said what was where.

Exploration of the moon has already been carried out several times. In the process, exploration of the resources on the moon was also carried out, but accurate data on this has not been released.

As it is related to national interests, the information that NASA announces to the media is only a small part, and the core information is thoroughly hidden.

In other words, no one knows who knows what information.

"You don't have to worry. I can't tell you the source because it's confidential, but I have a rough idea of where it is."

At my words, no one bothered to ask for the source of the information. They probably thought I had heard it from President Ronald.

Because the President of the United States has the authority to access various secrets collected by NASA.

"The potential of the space industry is endless. Perhaps the Geratinium mining will trigger a gold rush to space."

Hyun-joo noona said.

"The problem is time. The global economy is collapsing rapidly. The US is still recovering the dollars it has spread around the world by raising interest rates, and countries that have reached their limits are collapsing one after another. The EU is being torn apart, and once the Philippines declares default, the crisis will spread to other ASEAN countries. And the next will be China. In a situation where it's hard to even pay off debts, it's difficult to even think about the space industry, which requires a large amount of financial resources."

I nodded.

"That's why we have to prevent a financial crisis from happening."

Ellie asked, flustered.

"How?"

"I'm going to put everything I have on the line and fight the speculative capital."

"..."

At my words, everyone except Taek-gyu looked at a loss for words.

It's natural that it sounds absurd. No matter how much I am the richest man in the world, trying to prevent a global economic collapse by myself is like hitting a rock with an egg.

If this were possible, couldn't the global financial crisis have been stopped by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett joining hands?

This crisis was not created by Rothschild alone. Rothschild is using the crisis, but even they will not be able to stop a crisis once it has begun.

The essence of a financial crisis that occurs in countries other than the US is a foreign exchange crisis.

A crisis caused by a lack of money can be solved by printing money. But when there is a shortage of dollars, there is no way to print them unless you are the US.

To win, you need more money than your opponent, but the flow of dollars is already controlled by speculative forces following Rothschild.

"There are things in the world that can replace the dollar. Like gold, silver, or oil. For us, that will be the JN Battery."

I recalled the scene I had seen in my dream. Sheep kill people, and finance destroys lives.

But the reason I decided to stop the crisis is not just because I want to protect Ellie's hometown and save the world.

There is a very realistic reason for this.

John D. Rockefeller once monopolized more than 90 percent of the US oil market. Why else would the company name have been 'Standard Oil'?

One of the methods he used to achieve a monopoly was to control the means of transportation. Standard Oil formed a cartel with railroad companies to lower transportation costs by getting discounts on freight rates.

Thanks to this, Rockefeller was able to crush all his competitors with overwhelmingly cheap rates and completely dominate the oil market.

Bringing Geratinium is not by land, sea, or air, but by space transportation.

How many institutions or companies in the world can do this?

The space industry requires huge capital and long-accumulated technology. It is also closely related to the military field.

Spaceships are essentially the same as missiles in principle, and reconnaissance and communication satellites are used for military purposes.

Therefore, the state invests and develops technology, and thoroughly manages related companies. Private space companies such as SpaceX and Red Origin have received technology transfers from NASA and are under the supervision and control of the US government in all aspects of their business.

In other words, the space industry is difficult to enter and must follow the will of the government.

Now as in the past, it is money that rules the world. Therefore, the person who controls the financial system rules the world.

That's why Rothschild has enjoyed such luxury until now.

If Rothschild succeeds in this, it will be a piece of cake for them to exert influence on the space industry by pressuring governments and companies with money.

If all the means of transportation are taken away by Rothschild, we will have no way to obtain Geratinium.

If this happens, even if we commercialize the JN Battery, we will have to rely on Rothschild for all the raw materials.

Just as the bear does the tricks and the person reaps the rewards, a situation will arise where we make the batteries and Rothschild reaps the profits.

Senior Sang-yeop said with a skeptical expression.

"To build a mining base on the moon, mine Geratinium, create a stable transportation route, and establish a full-scale mass production system, wouldn't it take at least a year, no matter how fast we are? Can we really prevent a global economic collapse until then?"

"That's a good point."

Unlike finance, industry takes a long time to recover the money after investing it.

Even if we succeed in mining resources from the moon and bringing them to Earth, it doesn't mean our money will increase right away. No, to do that, we have to spend a huge amount of money.

It will take a considerable amount of time to bring a large amount of Geratinium from the moon to Earth and mass-produce and sell the JN Battery.

In fact, one year is a short estimate. Who knows if it will take two years, or three years, when we actually do it.

"Have you ever heard of Yap Island?"

Taek-gyu asked.

"Where's that?"

Unlike Taek-gyu, who was blinking his eyes, everyone else looked like they knew.

Ellie said.

"You're talking about the stone money, right?"

"That's right."

If you study monetary economics, you will come across this at least once.

Everyone probably knows this, but I explained it for Taek-gyu.

"Yap Island is a small island at the western end of the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific. The people who live on that island used large stones as currency."

One of the requirements for currency is scarcity. The stones used for transactions were rare stones that were hardly found on the island.

Taek-gyu tilted his head.

"How do you carry those heavy things around?"

"So they kept them at home and traded. I'll give you a third of the stone under the tree at my house, so sell me some fish. A fifth of the stone at so-and-so's house is mine, so let's trade it for some jewelry, and so on."

"Aha!"

"There was one richest person in that village."

"He must have had a huge stone at home."

"The funny thing is that you couldn't find a stone in that house even if you searched high and low. The stone was somewhere else."

"Where?"

"In the sea."

"...Huh?"

His ancestor, dreaming of becoming rich, traveled around the nearby islands and finally found a huge stone and loaded it onto his boat. But on the way back, he happened to encounter a storm, and to save the other people, he had no choice but to throw the stone into the sea.

The people who returned to the island all testified that the stone was very large and beautiful, and that he was not responsible for throwing it into the sea.

After hearing the story, the villagers recognized his ownership of the stone. The fact that the stone was in the sea was no problem at all.

Thanks to this, he became the richest person in the village, and even his descendants were able to live without worrying about money.

When you hear a story like this, some people might laugh and say, "What kind of primitive people are these?"...

"Do you think modern people are any different?"

The Bank of Korea holds more than 100 tons of gold in its foreign exchange reserves. So where is this gold now?

Surprisingly, it's in the vaults of the Bank of England in the UK.

They are thinking of the gold in someone else's vault more than 8,000 kilometers away as their own.

So what happens if we sell this gold to Japan?

From that moment on, the Bank of Korea's gold reserves become 0, and the Bank of Japan's gold reserves increase by 100 tons. Even though the gold is still in the Bank of England.

"Do you know where the most gold in the world is stored?"

Taek-gyu answered immediately.

"Fort Knox."

"Correct."

In Kentucky, USA, there is the United States Army post Fort Knox. This place is more famous as the federal government's gold bullion depository than as a military base.

"It is known that more than 2,000 tons of gold bullion are stored in Fort Knox. But only a few people have actually seen it. They don't even let the countries that have deposited the gold check the gold they have stored, they just show them the documents."

"Isn't there also a story that the US blew it all?"

As he said, there are many conspiracy theories that there is actually no gold. They used it for war expenses, they blew it on speculation, they used it to cover the fiscal deficit, and so on.

"That's the key."

In fact, it doesn't really matter whether the gold is there or not. Because the gold there will never be taken out.

The important thing is that many people think there are 2,000 tons of gold in the vaults of Fort Knox. Then, regardless of the reality, it means that there are 2,000 tons of gold there. Just like the stone in the sea.

Banknotes, bonds, stocks, promissory notes, gift certificates, cryptocurrencies, and so on. The moment people believe they have value, they have value.

In this way, the financial system runs on people's trust.

This is the essence of finance.

That's why Chairman Im Jin-yong is needed for this plan.

Since he's not directly developing the battery pack or creating the production line, it might have been enough for him to give instructions by phone from inside the detention center.

But it's easier to instill trust in people if the chairman of the Seosung Group directly leads the entire process.

I looked at the moon floating outside the window and said.

"We don't need to bring all the Geratinium on the moon to Earth, and we don't need to mass-produce and sell the JN Battery right away. We just need to make people believe that there is a Geratinium mine on the moon, that there is a way to bring it to Earth, and that we can mass-produce the JN Battery with it."

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