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Published at 3rd of January 2022 12:27:55 PM


Chapter 669

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Mark and his colleagues received the news of the strike of employees in the publishing industry as well as the reprimand of the municipal government. Now the mayor of New York is the famous Bloomberg. As the mayor of the world's largest city, he doesn't have his own office and works with civil servants in the municipal hall, which makes him win wide praise.

In Bloomberg's view, "walls are obstacles, and my job is to move them". Under his management, the mental outlook of government staff has taken on a new look. Time magazine commented: "Bloomberg has brought unprecedented work efficiency and transparency to New York City." over the past three years, Bloomberg has made various efforts and achieved results: reducing the crime rate; Stimulate the economic growth of urban areas and eliminate the deficit of US $6 billion; Improve the quality of life of residents by banning smoking and reducing noise in restaurants and bars; Set up complaint and consultation hotlines to enhance exchanges with the public.

The wall street information tycoon, former well-known mayor Giuliani after 9 / 11, took over the mayor's baton and claimed to run the city like a company, injecting vitality into the city.

Solving the employment rate and improving GDP is a problem that any official has to face. They are also very unhappy about their practice of giving up the publishing business and cutting 30000 people. Time Warner is not bad. So far, why bother? They don't agree with such violent layoffs and have been making good offices.

In fact, no matter what time warner does, it is an internal affair, and the reasons and basis for government intervention are insufficient. However, the situation is sensitive and the employment rate is not optimistic. The municipal government hopes that both sides can reach an agreement to reduce the number of layoffs from 10000 to 1000 per year.

Bloomberg was rated as "the most powerful billionaire in the world" by Forbes, commanding 310000 government employees and controlling a budget of $60 billion a year.

At the end of last year, Bloomberg broke through the legal restrictions and was re elected mayor of New York for the third time. Sophisticated New Yorkers increasingly believe that "old Mike", who is also political and business, is the most qualified person to lead them through the disaster under the financial crisis and economic recession. After all, when the wealth of Bill Gates and Buffett has shrunk sharply in the order of billions, he is There are only a few billionaires in the top 20 in the United States on the Forbes list, with a net profit of US $5.5 billion.

Bloomberg withdrew from the daily operation and management of Bloomberg in 2001, but he still has absolute control over Bloomberg, so he has a fortune of more than US $16 billion. In July 2008, Merrill Lynch was in danger under the financial crisis. He bought back 20% of the shares of Bloomberg, making his own shares reach 88%, becoming the chaebol with the largest asset appreciation on the Forbes rich list this year.

Bloomberg and mark have good personal relations. Many important parties are invited to each other. They exchanged information in the last financial tsunami, and both sides benefited a lot. Bloomberg has the opposite view on the future of the publishing industry. He believes that this ancient gentleman industry still has great prospects.

He secretly welcomed Time Warner's withdrawal from the industry. Without one of its strongest competitors, it was good for everyone. However, he could not eat the power vacuum after Time Warner's withdrawal, which meant that tens of thousands of people would lose their jobs to the society, which was not what he wanted to see.

In addition, he slandered several national magazines such as time, life, fortune and sports illustrated, but mark didn't mean to sell them. He was eager for mark to spit out a few more pieces of fat.

Bloomberg is a very smart man. So many rich people go into politics and their property will shrink. Only his wealth is growing rapidly.

In 2001, the famous Giuliani was not re elected due to legal restrictions, and Bloomberg immediately seized the opportunity. At first, Bloomberg was a clear-cut Democrat, but seeing the fierce competition in the party and the lack of a decent candidate on the Republican side, he "defected" to the Republican Party and successfully became the Republican candidate.

However, New York is the base of the Democratic Party. The number of Democrats is five times that of Republicans, and Republicans have little chance of being elected. In order to be elected, Bloomberg formed a first-class campaign team, relying on his media background and wildly soliciting votes through media publicity. He paid out $69 million of campaign funds to become mayor, and created the most expensive mayoral election Lift the record.

"Because I ran for mayor out of my own pocket, my future policy will not be influenced by the investors of campaign funds," Bloomberg said When he became mayor, Bloomberg voluntarily gave up the generous salary given by the government and received only a symbolic annual salary of US $1, which also set a historical record in the United States. He was re elected mayor of New York City in November 2005, thus making his career reach a new peak.

Bloomberg is different from mark. Mark likes luxury, goes in and out of luxury cars, has a large number of bodyguards before and after, and often travels by helicopter. If it's a long trip, it must be a private plane. It's a coincidence to meet mark.

New Yorkers have long been used to meeting Bloomberg in the subway. In the crowded carriage, Bloomberg often couldn't find a seat and had to stand for half an hour to go home. Bloomberg took the subway on his first day in office. At that time, many people thought it was just a "show", but he had a "show" for three years.

Bloomberg believes that taking the subway can not only save money, but also alleviate the traffic congestion in the city center. It is also an opportunity to contact the public. In addition, he can also understand the work of the transportation department and resolve the citizens' concerns about subway safety after September 11, which can be described as killing many birds with one stone.

Mark is laughing at this guy's show. He has earned so much money. Instead of going to a natural and unrestrained life, he shows. What are you doing to save money? Time is the most important thing. If so much money is not spent, can we wait for it to depreciate?

Bloomberg took the subway after work because he didn't get off work. He was also part of his work on his way home. Was he observing the people's feelings? Mark came home in a luxury car, but instead of drinking wine and champagne, he looked at the documents.

On the set, mark rarely played with the staff, because after dinner, he hid in the Mercedes Benz luxury bus, not enjoying life, but approving documents.

Megan said, "don't watch mark finish his work as easily as play, but it will be very painful to do it by another person."

This time, Bloomberg, the tycoon, came to the door. He had to talk to mark for both public and private.

People in the publishing department thought that as long as they went on strike, the parent company would panic at the fire in the small temple, but Mark's attitude was very firm and unwavering.

The management led by Barry first carried the pot and claimed that everything was the decision of the management and had nothing to do with mark. They would not have any form of negotiation with the strikers until the employees cancelled the abuse against mark.

The black lord of the galaxy has always been very strong.

When both sides were extremely angry and prepared to brewing a bigger storm, Bloomberg, a peacemaker, appeared. He intended to eat part of Mark's industry, but Mark's practice of selling only fat meat rather than refined meat was inappropriate. He hoped that Mark would sell two of his four magazines. He hoped for Time magazine and fortune.

Mark said, "if I sell Time magazine, I'm afraid I'll be killed as soon as I leave the office. This is Time Warner."

"Mark, I'm interested in the publishing business. If the price is right, I don't mind eating it," Bloomberg said

Mark laughed and said, "Welcome! Michael wants it. The price is easy to negotiate."

Bloomberg said, "all for sale?"

Mark said, "except for Time magazine, everything else is easy to talk about as long as the price is right."

Bloomberg said: "the publishing industry has a history of hundreds of years. It continues human civilization. And I'm sorry to be curious. The publishing business of Time Warner system has been declining year after year, but it is still profitable. Why do you abandon it like a shoe?"

Mark said: "After the nuclear war, the world's major cities were destroyed, including these books and documents. They were destroyed either by the nuclear war or by the continuous war. During the war, large buildings such as the library could not be preserved. The good news is that an explorer named Martin found a hard disk in the ruins of MM headquarters, which has a human history All the books in history, from Shakespeare literature to pornographic novels, the history of our civilized generation has been continued. Michael, I am more inclined to believe that human history will be preserved in this way. "

Bloomberg said: "this is your new sci-fi movie. It sounds good. I'm surprised that when mankind is on the verge of extinction, can you still interpret the hard disk and understand words?"

Mark said: "Pingguo company is developing a super large hard disk, which has enough storage space to put down the National Library, and it is the automatic unlocking of biological code, solar cell, voice and image recognition system, and its volume is not much larger than a book, so that it can preserve human civilization in an extremely harsh eschatological environment, my friend."

Bloomberg said: "I am an old school person and prefer traditional and old things. The emergence of books enables our knowledge to be preserved and spread. I also believe that it will play this role for a long time. You can make hundreds of millions of dollars by making a random film. Naturally, you won't pay attention to this little money, but I believe that it is a vitality Strong industry, it can be self-sufficient and survive tenaciously. "

Mark said, "Michael, friends belong to friends and business belongs to business. It's easy to talk about the right price. You should know that Time Warner's people are not easy to deal with."

Bloomberg said, "I thought you were a meat cutting sale?"




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