Chapter 392: Mexican Peso
Santa Monica, North Montana Community.
Arthur held Jennifer Aniston and Winona Ryder on the sofa, "Weren't we supposed to have a BBQ tonight?"
Immediately, he felt a pinch on both sides of his waist!
Arthur laughed and put his hands on the soft chests of the two women, "Being a star is hard sometimes, isn't it?"
Jennifer Aniston kissed Arthur on the cheek, "Alright, let me help you guys prepare some food, you sit tight."
She said that as she stood up and headed to the kitchen.
Winona Ryder glanced at Arthur, "Did you plan this all along?"
Arthur embraced her, nudging her white chest, "What do you think?"
"Seriously," Winona Ryder lay down on the sofa, cupping Arthur's face, "If you don't satisfy us tonight, you won't get another chance!"
"Relax," Arthur climbed on top of Winona Ryder, hands creeping under her shirt, "I promise it'll be satisfying..."
That night, after a meal prepared by Jennifer Aniston, the trio drank quite a bit and had a wonderful night together after returning to the room.
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Off the coast of Los Angeles, Avalon Bay on Catalina Island, aboard Arthur's Black Pearl yacht, Arthur was on the sofa, flipping through the Wall Street Journal.
Capital flight from Mexico, foreign reserves dropping, Mexican Peso likely to devalue?
"Mexico is going through a rough year!" Arthur put the paper down.
At this moment, Yu Feihong walked over and sat next to Arthur, "You sure know how to enjoy life, just hopping onto a pretty private yacht for vacations!"
Arthur smiled. Yu Feihong was now in a sexy black bikini with a thin cover-up, flaunting her great figure.
"Money's meant to be spent," Arthur pulled Yu Feihong into his arms, "Besides, with my current net worth, I can't even spend it all just by lavishly living!"
Then, they shared a long, passionate kiss.
After the kiss, Yu Feihong picked up the newspaper, "A lot's going on in Mexico this year."
"No kidding?" Arthur rubbed his hands over Yu Feihong's body, "NAFTA just took effect this year, and Chiapas state in Mexico saw a farmer's armed uprising. Then the presidential candidate of the Mexican political party got assassinated. Inflation, political instability, too much short-term speculative foreign investment, haha!"
The US is going to sweep up Mexico thoroughly this time.
"Some of my friends want to drive to Mexico for a road trip. What do you think?"
"Driving to Mexico?" Arthur shook his head quickly, "Don't even think about it. It's not safe driving around the US, let alone Mexico. Besides, we're not short on money. Just fly to wherever and drive locally."
Yu Feihong laughed, "I certainly won't go with them, and I've realized, there is significant class conflict here in the US too."
For instance, Mexico's situation is primarily because it's too close to the US. The US won't allow its neighbor to develop normally!
"Class," Arthur smiled, "The US is ruled by elites. Study and life are normal. As for some middle-class or lower news you hear back home, that's what they want you to hear. If they don't promote it that way, how will they attract any country's talent?"
Yu Feihong nodded, "Yeah, I get it now. The happy education here is aimed at the lower masses. Rich people and poor people are like two different species."
Arthur patted her, "Don't worry; it's the same everywhere."
"Oh, I heard Orion is planning to release Jackie Chan's Supercop in April next year?"
Arthur nodded, "Supercop and Operation Condor are both coming out. They want to cash in on Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx."
Not just Galaxy, New Line Cinema also acquired the distribution rights for three Jackie Chan movies.
"Alright, put on some clothes. Let's go ashore and stroll around the island, grab a bite," Arthur said, standing up and stretching.
"You can't stay at school all the time. It's the weekend; go out and explore. You haven't traveled much these years."
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In Pitkin County, Colorado, Arthur's private jet landed at the largest airport in Aspen.
Later, a group of people headed to the training base of the Seraphim, spanning 12,000 acres, crossing the west into Mesa County and the northwest into Garfield County, enough for them to mess around!
"Bang, bang, bang..." Arthur emptied a magazine of an M16A1 at a target, shaking his shoulders.
"Indeed, this is a man's toy!"
The training base of the Seraphim had various terrains for training, and the shooting range was extensive.
In the evening, they rested at a forest villa on the edge of the ranch near Aspen, a holiday villa Arthur specifically built for himself.
At the same time, accompanying him was an old friend from years back, Mary Krause, a behavior and intelligence analyst from the FBI Behavior Science Unit!
While filming The Silence of the Lambs, she specifically joined the crew to help Jodie Foster act more like an FBI professional.
"Who'd have thought you'd join the Seraphim? You're not spying on me for the FBI, are you?" Arthur panted lying on Mary Krause in the bedroom; blonde, blue-eyed, and curvy, Mary Krause had matured but still carried her charm!
Mary Krause's chest heaved, and she listened to Arthur's joke without care, laughing, "Who knew? From a small production company back then, in just a few years, you've become one of Hollywood's big shots, and you've become an idol for all American youth. And you've been topping the most popular men's lists for years, with countless women wanting to share a bed with you!"
With that, Mary Krause flipped Arthur over, pressing him down and diving under the covers.
No one knew how much time had passed when Arthur let out a muffled grunt and exhaled.
Panting, Mary Krause rested on Arthur's chest, swallowing, "Was it good?"
"Mmm, not bad," Arthur patted Mary Krause's back, "You've been stationed at the Arlington liaison office, right?"
"Yep, after leaving the FBI, I joined a psychotherapy clinic, and just joined the Seraphim earlier this year to handle some affairs in Arlington. I didn't expect the Seraphim to be a security firm you invested in," Mary Krause laughed, "Though I heard the Seraphim collaborates with Occidental Petroleum, and you're a board member there, the oil fields in Africa indeed need this. And the Seraphim has ties with Congress and the Pentagon, so they aren't short on orders. Now, there's another mercenary group associated with the Seraphim called the Umbrella, and they're quite powerful!"
Messiah and the Umbrella were now two mercenary teams supported by the Seraphim, with Messiah in the Middle East on missions, with the Umbrella staying in Africa.
Arthur really liked the name Umbrella!
"International oil prices are dropping now, so the two small oil fields in Somalia don't seem very profitable for me," Arthur caressed the woman's chest, "But I have some ideas about Mexico."
"Mexico?" Mary Krause thought for a moment before reminding him, "Earlier this year, there was an armed uprising by farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, remember? Farmers losing their land, on top of crops not being profitable, you know what the outcome is!"
Arthur grinned, "Isn't it growing drugs? Mexico is transitioning from a drug route to a drug-producing country."
"That's one aspect, but next, Mexico will enter a period of growing drug cartels, and their current poor economy is the main issue," Mary Krause wouldn't think Arthur Smith was ignorant of Mexico's current situation, "It might trigger a financial crisis, and the stock market could continue to fall."
Arthur knew all too well, "This presents an opportunity. I want to see how deep the peso crisis in Mexico could go."
A few years ago, Carlos Slim's Grupo Carso acquired the sole landline company in Mexico during the country's privatization - Telmex.
Arthur knew Telmex would become the largest enterprise in Mexico and even in Latin America, dominating the Mexican telecommunications market!
Anyone could see monopolizing meant printing money.
Amidst Mexico's current financial turmoil, Arthur aimed to get a piece of the pie because Carlos Slim would become the world's richest man in the future.
"But," Mary Krause still couldn't comprehend such high-level millionaire thoughts, "Foreign capital is fleeing Mexico now, and their foreign exchange reserves can barely support the peso's exchange rate. When they can't hold out, international speculators will sell off the Mexican peso even faster. Mexico isn't as robust as the UK, after all."
"Alright, let's sleep. We'll see how things go then!"
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