'Discounted … By a Lightning Strike!' … a first impression
[ Kaylon, a journalist and master student at the height of the COVID pandemic of 2020, discovers the owner of Paris' most prestigious hedge fund by accident, during his vacation in France with his girlfriend Sofie.
He starts off as an intern at this firm, which goes by the name of Hypervestments. Over the course of time he develops his professional skills, ánd he discovers, together with a (former) fellow student, how a well- connected group of criminal oligarchs is exploiting the Eurozone during the COVID crisis as well as the years that follow.
Some members of the criminal syndicate are from democracies within Europe, others from dictatorships outside of it. Through their actions, they are closing in on the European societies in which they operate. Will Kaylon and several other financial insiders and non-insiders be able to stop these criminals, before the syndicate commits a 'financial coup' with lasting damage, leveraged by technological refinement, shadow-finance and a criminal mindset? The concept of a free society may be hanging by just a thread! ]
This plot forms a young financial's perspective on free societies and markets after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, as well as the COVID pandemic. This is an era characterised by immense volatility as well as a series of unconventional monetary experiments of which the exact outcome is hard to estimate. Likewise, it is an era of immense opportunities, if you know where to spot them ...
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