Chapter 588 Economic Crisis?

Performing in a skirt in the ice and snow is a test of acting skills, as well as a test of physical fitness.

If you are physically weak, you will be so cold that you can't speak, your whole body will tremble uncontrollably, and you will be unable to perform at all.

Fortunately, Luo Quan's body is much stronger than that of ordinary girls. Although she still feels cold after taking off her coat, she can still control her body, not to mention that she has a lot of warm babies attached to her body.

It was in this environment that everyone could see how fair Luo Quan's skin was.

Snowflakes were falling from the sky. Six equal parts of ice crystals fell on her collarbone. If you don't pay attention, you can't really see any difference. This means that Luo Quan's skin is as white as ice and snow.

Angela lowered her head and pulled her sleeves open and looked at hers.

Because she often goes to the beach to sunbathe, Angela has a wheat color that is very common in Europe and America.

Her skin used to be quite white, but people around her said that wheat color was healthy and good-looking, so she deliberately adjusted her skin in this aspect.

But when she saw her sister, she immediately regretted it.

Isn’t this flawless skin beautiful? When it comes to health, wouldn’t someone who just wears a skirt in the cold and snow without shaking her body be healthier than her?

It seems you can’t get enough sunbathing! Angela thought this in her heart, and at the same time she made up her mind to find a beauty salon to make her skin white again.

In Luoquan, filming has already started.

The actors who played the villain prince and the male protagonist this time were all Hollywood gold medal supporting actors hired by Luo Quan. Their acting skills are nothing to mention, and the scenes with Luo Quan were very smooth, almost all in one pass.

There are not many scenes that need to be shot in real snow, and it is expected to be shot in five days. As for other snow scenes, such as the ice and snow palace, computer special effects will be used.

Luo Quan, who had taken more than ten shots in a row, felt a little tired and waved to everyone to take a rest.

Then two female assistants from the crew ran over immediately carrying a goose feather cloak as tall as one person, wrapped Luo Quan tightly in it, and handed her a glass of hot milk.

After drinking the hot liquid, Luo Quan's condition, which was originally a little cold, suddenly improved a lot.

After all, her physique is still a little worse. If it were Yunikina, she would probably be done with a glass of vodka. There is no need to wear so many clothes.

According to her, she used to go out for winter swimming, and the uncles around the farm were just as good at it, soaking in ice water and drinking vodka.

It can only be said that people's physiques cannot be generalized. If she soaked in ice water when it was freezing, she would probably cool down quickly no matter what she drank.

After resting for a while, Luo Quan continued working.

The weather was good, and the snow stopped after a while. The sun peeked out from the thick clouds and cast warm golden light. Luo Quan suddenly felt much better.

The filming lasted from 10 am to 3:30 pm. Lunch was the self-heating fast food brought this time, which was some Westernized Chinese food, such as General Tso's Chicken and Mapo Tofu.

Luo Quan thought it was funny that a dish with a few dried chili peppers was so spicy that it made a bunch of little girls drink water.

If this is called spicy, then what is Yuzhou’s hotpot?

But thinking of this, she had a clever trick to keep out the cold.

In the past, in Yuzhou, people would go out to eat hot pot when winter came, often making them sweat profusely. This kind of food full of chili peppers was quite good at resisting the cold. How could she forget about it?

As soon as he thought of it, Luo Quan took out his mobile phone and ordered a large number of self-heating hotpots online, all of which were half meat and vegetables.

As for spiciness, is there a spiciness level for hot pot?

Mildly spicy, medium spicy, extra spicy, Luoquan tastes the same, and it can make people stick out their tongues.

"Hehe, you will be in for a treat tomorrow." After Luo Quan placed the order, he turned to his brothers and sisters and smiled.

"What's the taste? Sister, are you going to cook for us yourself?" Leon became more energetic after hearing this. He ate a lot of my sister's cooking, but he always felt that he couldn't eat enough.

Luo Quan shook his head: "I would like to cook by myself, but there is no such condition here. I bought some Chinese self-heating fast food, and the dish is Yuzhou's special delicacy-hot pot."

"Huo Guo?" This is the first time Angela has heard of this kind of dish.

Luo Quan explained: "The translation is called Hot Pot, but I prefer to call it a burning pot, which is more specific."

Angela roughly guessed what kind of food it was by hearing the name: "It must be very hot."

"It's not only hot, it's also very spicy." Luo Quan pulled out the hot pot photo on his phone and showed it to the two of them. The original red pot was covered with peppers, which was scary to look at.

"Haha, I like spicy food the most. I'll have one when it arrives tomorrow." Leon rubbed his hands excitedly and took a sip of saliva.

"This is not the same concept as the chili powder that KFC and McDonald's give you. If you eat this, you will have diarrhea if you have a bad stomach." Luo Quan felt that it was necessary to introduce it to them before eating.

Putting so many chili peppers in hot pot is definitely not to make the color bright and beautiful. It is really spicy. Even if people from Chongqing eat it often, their stomachs will not be able to bear it.

I just don’t know if Lyon can withstand it.

However, it is said that Mexicans are very spicy, and there are also very spicy peppers there, such as devil peppers.

The United States is so close to Mexico, so it stands to reason that the spicy food should not be much different.

"Don't worry, I haven't eaten chili peppers yet? I just finished my gastrointestinal physical examination, everything is fine." Leon patted his chest, indicating that there was no problem at all.

Angela was a little hesitant. She doesn't usually eat spicy food. She heard from her sister that this hot pot was so powerful that she probably couldn't stand it.

Fortunately, Luo Quan said that she also bought some clear soup hot pot this time. Although the taste was definitely not as exciting as the red soup, it was still delicious. Angela breathed a sigh of relief.

After lunch, Luo Quan reminded the crew to put away the garbage and put it all in the plastic bags prepared by Peng Lin.

The environment here is beautiful, and it would be a sin if it were destroyed because of these non-biodegradable plastic waste.

Although she has not contributed much to the issue of global warming, she must still protect the environment within her ability.

In a blink of an eye, the time came to half past three in the afternoon.

Although the time was still there, for the sake of safety, Luoquan's inventory personnel returned home.

Winter is no better than summer, and climate change is difficult to predict. If you can go back early, you should go back early.

For the crew, compared with the previous films, filming on location with Luo Quan seemed much easier this time.

Work started at ten in the morning and ended at 3:30 in the afternoon. The food was quite good, but there was no lunch break at noon and the salary was slightly less.

But compared to previous crews, the salary given by the "Frozen" crew is definitely not small.

As expected of Hollywood's conscience, Luo Quan's treatment was so generous that it was almost at the top of the industry pyramid.

It's no wonder that the movie she made became a hit. I can only say that she deserves to be rich!

On the way back to the hotel, Luo Quan saw through the car window that the people on the street were slightly different from when she came here.

When she came, many of the people on the street were very ambitious and eager to get rich overnight, but they were afraid of losing everything.

Some people's faces were red and their mouths were bursting with laughter, obviously they had won money.

And some people's faces are declining, such as the funeral of a concubine, who must have lost a lot of money.

But today, she saw pedestrians on the street either talking on the phone or looking at their mobile phones, and all of them looked bad.

In the casino, everyone loses and everyone wins. It is almost non-existent that everyone loses money. This situation will only occur because of other things.

Luo Quan opened Twitter on his phone and quickly found the answer.

The term "U.S. stock meltdown" topped the list of regional search trends, with as many as 600,000 tweets!

Circuit breaker is a special term in the stock market. It describes that the stock market continues to plummet and automatically triggers the insurance mechanism after exceeding the preset red line.

Starting from the moment of the circuit breaker, all trading activities in the stock market today will be suspended, forcing everyone to stop operations until the market opens again tomorrow.

Once the circuit breaker occurs, it means that the stock market index is plummeting in all directions, which is a very dangerous sign.

Since the global financial crisis in 2008, the U.S. stock market has never had a meltdown.

After the stock market crashed in 2008, it didn't take long for the economic crisis to hit.

Luo Quan remembers that the last global financial crisis was caused by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, which was caused by the collapse of the balance between real estate developers, banks, and home loan users, which ultimately triggered a financial crisis that swept the world. disaster.

Luo Quan is not sure what the final impact was, because he was too young at the time and didn't feel much of this change.

But she knew that although the United States was the source of the crisis and its economy had suffered a huge blow, it was Europe that suffered the most, and the United States itself was slowly recovering from the crisis.

At that time, China withstood the crisis and repelled a large number of American financial giants who tried to fish in troubled waters here.

After ten years, the U.S. stock market has experienced a circuit breaker again. The signal released can be said to be quite dangerous. It may be a precursor to another financial crisis.

During the 2008 financial crisis, people were jumping to commit suicide every day in the high-rise buildings on Wall Street. If it happened again this time, it is estimated that the situation would not be any better than last time.

Now there has been a quarrel on Twitter about this matter. After watching it for a while, Luo Quan roughly understood what happened.

That is, the U.S. Treasury bonds are about to mature, but the United States, which has been running fiscal deficits for many years, is simply unable to repay them. It can only continue to print money and let foreign countries buy U.S. Treasury bonds to tear down the east wall and pay for the west wall.

However, this morning, Russia and Saudi Arabia reached some agreements on oil sales, which in the eyes of Financial Street is a major threat to the US dollar.

As we all know, the value of the US dollar is linked to the price of oil. The more expensive the oil, the more valuable the US dollar is.

The reason for this is that through war, the United States has almost controlled the Middle East, the world's largest oil producer.

Now, if the price of oil starts to fall, the value of the U.S. dollar will also fall, and the U.S. Treasury bonds held by other countries will also depreciate.

In a series of chain reactions, the U.S. stock market collapsed, plummeting 7% as a whole. Less than five hours after the market opened, the circuit breaker mechanism was directly triggered, wiping out trillions of dollars.

Now everyone has been forced to stop operations by the circuit breaker mechanism, but the market's pessimistic mood has formed. Unless the White House sends police officers door-to-door to inform everyone not to be too pessimistic, otherwise the circuit breaker is expected to happen again at this time tomorrow.

The current situation of the stock market is somewhat similar to the Japanese stock market two years ago, with the same meltdown and the same pessimism, but the reasons for it are different.

In Japan, it was because of natural disasters. Three consecutive earthquakes and rumors of an unprecedented 9.5-magnitude earthquake made the entire society despair. At that time, the sinking of Japan even became something that many people thought was likely to happen on the Internet.

Under such circumstances, the stock market crash is not unexpected.

Later, Luo Quan's song "Don't Give Up" directly turned the tide and made everyone regain their confidence. The day after the song was released, it suddenly made a straight line that had been declining rapidly pick up. It was simply a miracle worker.

This is why the Japanese people regard her as a goddess.

In the United States, the situation is much more complicated.

On the one hand, the national debt is maturing, on the other hand, there is a desperate rush for money, on the one hand, the price of oil is falling, and on the other hand, the economy is in recession.

This meltdown occurred under the influence of multiple factors.

Unlike natural disasters, this is a standard man-made disaster.

The predicted sinking of Japan did not happen. After the rumors were disproven, the stock market naturally rebounded. Even without her song, the stock market would have rebounded, just a few days later.

But in the United States, even if she sings every day, her scruples are probably of no use. The capitalists don't care whether you admit defeat or not. They just want to stop losses in time and try to pull leeks to support themselves.

Therefore, it is almost certain that another meltdown will occur in the next few days.

But the good news for Luo Quan is that she currently has no stocks.

In order to invest in new energy research and development, she invested most of the money she had at hand. The stock prices in her hands were relatively good at that time, and she made a lot of money after selling them.

At that time, she felt quite distressed and felt that it was a pity to sell so many high-quality stocks. But now it seems that she was really lucky and avoided such a risk unintentionally.

If she had not sold her stocks to invest, not only would the research and development of new energy sources have been much slower, but the value of her stocks would have also depreciated.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little proud. Sure enough, the goddess of luck favored her.

However, some people are happy and some are worried. People who do not own stocks have completely become the masses this time, enjoying watching this big event that has not happened in ten years.

Retail investors, large investors, the middle class and even some capitalists suffered heavy losses in this stock market circuit breaker.

Those who simply buy stocks to receive dividends are fine. If they sell them in time, they will lose a little money.

And those who tried to take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune, almost all suffered this time.