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Although Simon's personal wealth is growing rapidly, he has never been a person pursuing short-term interests, so naturally he will not veto Sofia's business strategy.
After a brief discussion, Simon said, "in addition, Sophie, you should be able to guess that I have made a lot of money in the Japanese market in the past six months, so melisandro can now start looking for other luxury brands worth investing in."
Sophia nodded: "I've been paying attention to all aspects of the industry. There are some suitable goals, but it's not time to make a move. Moreover, gucci still has great growth potential. I don't think it needs to be too urgent. If you invest in the same type of enterprises, it is easy to cause internal competition. Melisandro's next phase of expansion should focus on jewelry, watches, wine or high-end cosmetics. "
Simon leaned on the sofa for a very casual posture, flipped through Sofia's just a few documents, said: "you just have a good idea, I'm going to try to restore a boss's job, only responsible for paying, and then wait for the results."
Sophia smiles, knowing that Simon doesn't want to talk any more. She gets up and says, "then I'll help the boss prepare dinner."
"Go ahead and remember your job as housekeeper. I'll give you a point."
Sophia glanced at Simon and said, "I remember all my promises."
With that, without waiting for Simon to react, Sophia turned away in her high heels. Simon's eyes disappeared in the corridor leading to the kitchen with the figure of the housekeeper Miaoman, and he silently said a Goblin you wait!
Simon brought a total of eight bodyguards here, divided into two groups responsible for 24-hour security.
There were too many entourage, so Sophia chose several cooks and servants to take charge of everyone's daily work. Simon gradually found that this kind of thing is inevitable, and he no longer tangled, because in order to get in and out of the main villa, he only required that these people must be female, not too old, not too sorry for the audience, and not to appear in his vision, and other things don't matter.
It's just a short-term part-time job for a week. Sophia joked privately that Simon's requirements are actually very high, but the people he found still exceeded Simon's expectations. The two cooks and the two maids are all white women in their 30s, and their bodies and appearance are above the standard.
When she just arrived in Milan, the housekeeper secretly told Simon that these women were single, with an encouraging tone of seducing someone to make a mistake.
In a word, compared with Simon's wealth and status, this kind of requirement is nothing at all. The problem that money can solve is no longer a problem for Simon. Simon has no idea about these vases that are purely for visual needs. Some tabloids have already noticed that Simon likes to hire beautiful female college students to take care of his house. The reason why there is no stir is that Simon has never met these girls.
Simon is actually very cautious about women. He doesn't touch women who don't know their roots, who are not smart enough or who may bring trouble to them. Simon can certainly afford the trouble now, but he just doesn't want to stick with it.
After dinner, everyone gathered in the living room to watch TV and chat. Unconsciously, it was already late at night. Sophia naturally stayed in.
Both jennies were there, and of course nothing happened.
After two more days in Florence, Simon and his party left for New York on the afternoon of October 1.
According to cersei's analyst team, the North American junk bond market crisis will break out in the first two weeks of October, because United Airlines will have a $1.5 billion junk bond due in mid October.
In previous years, United Airlines issued more than $6 billion of high-risk junk bonds in order to merge New York airlines, people's rapid transit and border airlines.
The U.S. economy has not fully recovered after the 87 stock market crash. Michael Milken's investigation has also made these companies that need to repeatedly rely on junk bond financing to maintain their operations unsustainable. In addition, the debt scale of United Airlines itself is too large, and it is difficult to seek other financial support except for high-risk junk bonds. Therefore, cersei's team determined that United Airlines is not in a good position at all It is possible to fulfill the obligation of paying off the bonds due, but it can only choose to default.
Once United Airlines defaults on its debt, it will inevitably lead to domino effect in North American junk bond market.
Simon's memory of the crisis is more accurate. The "mini crash" after the 87 stock market crash occurred on October 13. He also believes that this date will not change too much. United Airlines' bonds need to be paid off on October 16 because it can't afford to pay. No matter how long the company delays, it must announce the news before the maturity date.
October 13 happens to be Friday. The announcement of default on this day can give the market a two-day cushion, and also reserve the last glimmer of vitality for United Airlines: if the federal government intervenes to avoid the collapse of the financial market, the crisis of United Airlines may be resolved. After all, two years ago, the federal bailout was very timely.
In Simon's view, the idea of United Airlines is doomed to become a luxury. The federal government can't save the $200 billion junk bond market.Since leaving the Japanese financial market at the beginning of July, cersei capital's No. 6 to No. 10 sub funds have been secretly laying out plans for the North American bond market in the past three months. In order to avoid the attention of the market as much as possible, cersei spent only about $3.2 billion of its $5 billion in three months.
Among all kinds of financial derivatives positions, Simon is familiar with more than 32000 short contracts of S & P 500 stock index futures accumulated in three months. Since it is determined that the North American stock market will collapse in mid October, stock index futures will naturally remain the safest arbitrage product.
In addition, Simon does not have enough expertise and time and energy to deal with a large number of complex short selling contracts for stocks and bonds of individual target companies, such as CBS, United Airlines, American newspaper group, tezon securities, etc.
This shows Janet's talent to Simon's surprise. Women are usually lazy, but they can accurately understand a series of contracts with a total value of more than $30 billion under leverage.
Like the operation of the Japanese market, Simon does not expect cersei capital's layout to be absolutely confidential.
However, during this period, the short activity of North American financial market against junk bonds has been obviously noticed by major financial media, but cersei capital's participation has not been reported in the newspapers. Obviously, the followers who have heard the news in private are cleverly making a fortune.
When the two arrived in New York, Janet began to appear at the headquarters of westero company in midtown Manhattan every day under the pretext of conducting financial audit on westero company. In fact, it was to directly control cersei capital sub fund team hidden in westero company. Simon wants to pay attention to the New York movies ghost and Ninja Turtle, both of which started in August and are expected to be released around November.
Lower Manhattan.
In an apartment building in Soho District, ghost is shooting some daily scenes of the hero and heroine.
Simon had spent three days watching the sample films of the two films and discussed with the creator about some modifications. Today, he spent the whole day watching the production of ghost. The new version of ghost is basically composed of the original crew from the leading role to the director. Simon is not too worried about the quality of the film.
It's closing time in the afternoon.
Demi Moore finished her last scene today, went to Simon in the rest area, sat down next to him, waited for him to finish a conversation with the producer, and interjected: "Simon, the song you chose" unrestrained melody "with the scene of making pottery is really classic, and the original album of this film will certainly sell like" bodyguard "
Simon said with a smile, "is it just an original album? You don't have much faith in this movie
"Of course not. It's going to be a big sale," Demi Moore said, laughing. "I'll be off work soon. Would you like to have dinner with me in the evening?"
Simon shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I have plans for the evening."
"Then tomorrow night, you won't be in Manhattan for only one day, will you?"
Simon just shook his head again.
Demi Moore shrugged disappointingly. As the producer on the other side of Simon walked away, the woman came up and whispered, "Simon, in this case, I'm going to take off my make-up in the trailer. Do you want to come with me?"
Simon didn't want to report that a movie king and a movie queen were having an affair on the set and got a trailer. The whole crew was embarrassed. What's more, the woman next to him just tasted something fresh. Simon didn't get involved with her too much, so he said with a smile, "Demi, my assistant is coming to send me information soon. You have to go to remove your makeup by yourself."
Demi Moore was rejected again, but still didn't give up easily.
If she can establish a lover relationship with this little man who has already reached the top of the federal wealth and is in the ascendant of Hollywood power, her next development in Hollywood will definitely be a thoroughfare. As a result, she gave Simon a business card with her Manhattan address and contact information. After seeing the man put it in her pocket, Demi Moore finally got up and left.
In the evening, it was a banquet at the leibulde's house, which mainly introduced Joseph schrap, the head of schrap consulting company, to Simon. Westero company has confirmed that it will become the largest investor of this political consulting company which provides party with election investigation and election plan. The first sum of 3 million US dollars was delivered last month.
Schrap also began to assist in the New York mayoral election of David Dinkins, who was supported by Westeros.
The federal Campaign Act has very strict restrictions on campaign donations in the United States. Businesses, banks and other business groups are prohibited from donating to candidates. Individual donations also have various restrictions.
However, in recent years, through the political action committee and public welfare election funds, the American corporate giants and the rich class have never stopped intervening in political elections. The two major political parties can benefit from it. Naturally, they will not actively seek to make up for these obvious loopholes. On the contrary, the loopholes continue to expand.
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Although Simon's personal wealth is growing rapidly, he has never been a person pursuing short-term interests, so naturally he will not veto Sofia's business strategy.
After a brief discussion, Simon said, "in addition, Sophie, you should be able to guess that I have made a lot of money in the Japanese market in the past six months, so melisandro can now start looking for other luxury brands worth investing in."
Sophia nodded: "I've been paying attention to all aspects of the industry. There are some suitable goals, but it's not time to make a move. Moreover, gucci still has great growth potential. I don't think it needs to be too urgent. If you invest in the same type of enterprises, it is easy to cause internal competition. Melisandro's next phase of expansion should focus on jewelry, watches, wine or high-end cosmetics. "
Simon leaned on the sofa for a very casual posture, flipped through Sofia's just a few documents, said: "you just have a good idea, I'm going to try to restore a boss's job, only responsible for paying, and then wait for the results."
Sophia smiles, knowing that Simon doesn't want to talk any more. She gets up and says, "then I'll help the boss prepare dinner."
"Go ahead and remember your job as housekeeper. I'll give you a point."
Sophia glanced at Simon and said, "I remember all my promises."
With that, without waiting for Simon to react, Sophia turned away in her high heels. Simon's eyes disappeared in the corridor leading to the kitchen with the figure of the housekeeper Miaoman, and he silently said a Goblin you wait!
Simon brought a total of eight bodyguards here, divided into two groups responsible for 24-hour security.
There were too many entourage, so Sophia chose several cooks and servants to take charge of everyone's daily work. Simon gradually found that this kind of thing is inevitable, and he no longer tangled, because in order to get in and out of the main villa, he only required that these people must be female, not too old, not too sorry for the audience, and not to appear in his vision, and other things don't matter.
It's just a short-term part-time job for a week. Sophia joked privately that Simon's requirements are actually very high, but the people he found still exceeded Simon's expectations. The two cooks and the two maids are all white women in their 30s, and their bodies and appearance are above the standard.
When she just arrived in Milan, the housekeeper secretly told Simon that these women were single, with an encouraging tone of seducing someone to make a mistake.
In a word, compared with Simon's wealth and status, this kind of requirement is nothing at all. The problem that money can solve is no longer a problem for Simon. Simon has no idea about these vases that are purely for visual needs. Some tabloids have already noticed that Simon likes to hire beautiful female college students to take care of his house. The reason why there is no stir is that Simon has never met these girls.
Simon is actually very cautious about women. He doesn't touch women who don't know their roots, who are not smart enough or who may bring trouble to them. Simon can certainly afford the trouble now, but he just doesn't want to stick with it.
After dinner, everyone gathered in the living room to watch TV and chat. Unconsciously, it was already late at night. Sophia naturally stayed in.
Both jennies were there, and of course nothing happened.
After two more days in Florence, Simon and his party left for New York on the afternoon of October 1.
According to cersei's analyst team, the North American junk bond market crisis will break out in the first two weeks of October, because United Airlines will have a $1.5 billion junk bond due in mid October.
In previous years, United Airlines issued more than $6 billion of high-risk junk bonds in order to merge New York airlines, people's rapid transit and border airlines.
The U.S. economy has not fully recovered after the 87 stock market crash. Michael Milken's investigation has also made these companies that need to repeatedly rely on junk bond financing to maintain their operations unsustainable. In addition, the debt scale of United Airlines itself is too large, and it is difficult to seek other financial support except for high-risk junk bonds. Therefore, cersei's team determined that United Airlines is not in a good position at all It is possible to fulfill the obligation of paying off the bonds due, but it can only choose to default.
Once United Airlines defaults on its debt, it will inevitably lead to domino effect in North American junk bond market.
Simon's memory of the crisis is more accurate. The "mini crash" after the 87 stock market crash occurred on October 13. He also believes that this date will not change too much. United Airlines' bonds need to be paid off on October 16 because it can't afford to pay. No matter how long the company delays, it must announce the news before the maturity date.
October 13 happens to be Friday. The announcement of default on this day can give the market a two-day cushion, and also reserve the last glimmer of vitality for United Airlines: if the federal government intervenes to avoid the collapse of the financial market, the crisis of United Airlines may be resolved. After all, two years ago, the federal bailout was very timely.
In Simon's view, the idea of United Airlines is doomed to become a luxury. The federal government can't save the $200 billion junk bond market.Since leaving the Japanese financial market at the beginning of July, cersei capital's No. 6 to No. 10 sub funds have been secretly laying out plans for the North American bond market in the past three months. In order to avoid the attention of the market as much as possible, cersei spent only about $3.2 billion of its $5 billion in three months.
Among all kinds of financial derivatives positions, Simon is familiar with more than 32000 short contracts of S & P 500 stock index futures accumulated in three months. Since it is determined that the North American stock market will collapse in mid October, stock index futures will naturally remain the safest arbitrage product.
In addition, Simon does not have enough expertise and time and energy to deal with a large number of complex short selling contracts for stocks and bonds of individual target companies, such as CBS, United Airlines, American newspaper group, tezon securities, etc.
This shows Janet's talent to Simon's surprise. Women are usually lazy, but they can accurately understand a series of contracts with a total value of more than $30 billion under leverage.
Like the operation of the Japanese market, Simon does not expect cersei capital's layout to be absolutely confidential.
However, during this period, the short activity of North American financial market against junk bonds has been obviously noticed by major financial media, but cersei capital's participation has not been reported in the newspapers. Obviously, the followers who have heard the news in private are cleverly making a fortune.
When the two arrived in New York, Janet began to appear at the headquarters of westero company in midtown Manhattan every day under the pretext of conducting financial audit on westero company. In fact, it was to directly control cersei capital sub fund team hidden in westero company. Simon wants to pay attention to the New York movies ghost and Ninja Turtle, both of which started in August and are expected to be released around November.
Lower Manhattan.
In an apartment building in Soho District, ghost is shooting some daily scenes of the hero and heroine.
Simon had spent three days watching the sample films of the two films and discussed with the creator about some modifications. Today, he spent the whole day watching the production of ghost. The new version of ghost is basically composed of the original crew from the leading role to the director. Simon is not too worried about the quality of the film.
It's closing time in the afternoon.
Demi Moore finished her last scene today, went to Simon in the rest area, sat down next to him, waited for him to finish a conversation with the producer, and interjected: "Simon, the song you chose" unrestrained melody "with the scene of making pottery is really classic, and the original album of this film will certainly sell like" bodyguard "
Simon said with a smile, "is it just an original album? You don't have much faith in this movie
"Of course not. It's going to be a big sale," Demi Moore said, laughing. "I'll be off work soon. Would you like to have dinner with me in the evening?"
Simon shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I have plans for the evening."
"Then tomorrow night, you won't be in Manhattan for only one day, will you?"
Simon just shook his head again.
Demi Moore shrugged disappointingly. As the producer on the other side of Simon walked away, the woman came up and whispered, "Simon, in this case, I'm going to take off my make-up in the trailer. Do you want to come with me?"
Simon didn't want to report that a movie king and a movie queen were having an affair on the set and got a trailer. The whole crew was embarrassed. What's more, the woman next to him just tasted something fresh. Simon didn't get involved with her too much, so he said with a smile, "Demi, my assistant is coming to send me information soon. You have to go to remove your makeup by yourself."
Demi Moore was rejected again, but still didn't give up easily.
If she can establish a lover relationship with this little man who has already reached the top of the federal wealth and is in the ascendant of Hollywood power, her next development in Hollywood will definitely be a thoroughfare. As a result, she gave Simon a business card with her Manhattan address and contact information. After seeing the man put it in her pocket, Demi Moore finally got up and left.
In the evening, it was a banquet at the leibulde's house, which mainly introduced Joseph schrap, the head of schrap consulting company, to Simon. Westero company has confirmed that it will become the largest investor of this political consulting company which provides party with election investigation and election plan. The first sum of 3 million US dollars was delivered last month.
Schrap also began to assist in the New York mayoral election of David Dinkins, who was supported by Westeros.
The federal Campaign Act has very strict restrictions on campaign donations in the United States. Businesses, banks and other business groups are prohibited from donating to candidates. Individual donations also have various restrictions.
However, in recent years, through the political action committee and public welfare election funds, the American corporate giants and the rich class have never stopped intervening in political elections. The two major political parties can benefit from it. Naturally, they will not actively seek to make up for these obvious loopholes. On the contrary, the loopholes continue to expand.
Although Simon's personal wealth is growing rapidly, he has never been a person pursuing short-term interests, so naturally he will not veto Sofia's business strategy. After a brief discussion, Simon said, "in addition, Sophie, you should be able to guess that I have made a lot of money in the Japanese market in the past six months, so melisandro can now start looking for other luxury brands worth investing in." Sophia nodded: "I've been paying attention to all aspects of the industry. There are some suitable goals, but it's not time to make a move. Moreover, gucci still has great growth potential. I don't think it needs to be too urgent. If you invest in the same type of enterprises, it is easy to cause internal competition. Melisandro's next phase of expansion should focus on jewelry, watches, wine or high-end cosmetics. " Simon leaned on the sofa for a very casual posture, flipped through Sofia's just a few documents, said: "you just have a good idea, I'm going to try to restore a boss's job, only responsible for paying, and then wait for the results." Sophia smiles, knowing that Simon doesn't want to talk any more. She gets up and says, "then I'll help the boss prepare dinner." "Go ahead and remember your job as housekeeper. I'll give you a point." Sophia glanced at Simon and said, "I remember all my promises." With that, without waiting for Simon to react, Sophia turned away in her high heels. Simon's eyes disappeared in the corridor leading to the kitchen with the figure of the housekeeper Miaoman, and he silently said a Goblin you wait! Simon brought a total of eight bodyguards here, divided into two groups responsible for 24-hour security. There were too many entourage, so Sophia chose several cooks and servants to take charge of everyone's daily work. Simon gradually found that this kind of thing is inevitable, and he no longer tangled, because in order to get in and out of the main villa, he only required that these people must be female, not too old, not too sorry for the audience, and not to appear in his vision, and other things don't matter. It's just a short-term part-time job for a week. Sophia joked privately that Simon's requirements are actually very high, but the people he found still exceeded Simon's expectations. The two cooks and the two maids are all white women in their 30s, and their bodies and appearance are above the standard. When she just arrived in Milan, the housekeeper secretly told Simon that these women were single, with an encouraging tone of seducing someone to make a mistake. In a word, compared with Simon's wealth and status, this kind of requirement is nothing at all. The problem that money can solve is no longer a problem for Simon. Simon has no idea about these vases that are purely for visual needs. Some tabloids have already noticed that Simon likes to hire beautiful female college students to take care of his house. The reason why there is no stir is that Simon has never met these girls. Simon is actually very cautious about women. He doesn't touch women who don't know their roots, who are not smart enough or who may bring trouble to them. Simon can certainly afford the trouble now, but he just doesn't want to stick with it. After dinner, everyone gathered in the living room to watch TV and chat. Unconsciously, it was already late at night. Sophia naturally stayed in. Both jennies were there, and of course nothing happened. After two more days in Florence, Simon and his party left for New York on the afternoon of October 1. According to cersei's analyst team, the North American junk bond market crisis will break out in the first two weeks of October, because United Airlines will have a $1.5 billion junk bond due in mid October. In previous years, United Airlines issued more than $6 billion of high-risk junk bonds in order to merge New York airlines, people's rapid transit and border airlines. The U.S. economy has not fully recovered after the 87 stock market crash. Michael Milken's investigation has also made these companies that need to repeatedly rely on junk bond financing to maintain their operations unsustainable. In addition, the debt scale of United Airlines itself is too large, and it is difficult to seek other financial support except for high-risk junk bonds. Therefore, cersei's team determined that United Airlines is not in a good position at all It is possible to fulfill the obligation of paying off the bonds due, but it can only choose to default. Once United Airlines defaults on its debt, it will inevitably lead to domino effect in North American junk bond market. Simon's memory of the crisis is more accurate. The "mini crash" after the 87 stock market crash occurred on October 13. He also believes that this date will not change too much. United Airlines' bonds need to be paid off on October 16 because it can't afford to pay. No matter how long the company delays, it must announce the news before the maturity date. October 13 happens to be Friday. The announcement of default on this day can give the market a two-day cushion, and also reserve the last glimmer of vitality for United Airlines: if the federal government intervenes to avoid the collapse of the financial market, the crisis of United Airlines may be resolved. After all, two years ago, the federal bailout was very timely. In Simon's view, the idea of United Airlines is doomed to become a luxury. The federal government can't save the $200 billion junk bond market.Since leaving the Japanese financial market at the beginning of July, cersei capital's No. 6 to No. 10 sub funds have been secretly laying out plans for the North American bond market in the past three months. In order to avoid the attention of the market as much as possible, cersei spent only about $3.2 billion of its $5 billion in three months. Among all kinds of financial derivatives positions, Simon is familiar with more than 32000 short contracts of S & P 500 stock index futures accumulated in three months. Since it is determined that the North American stock market will collapse in mid October, stock index futures will naturally remain the safest arbitrage product. In addition, Simon does not have enough expertise and time and energy to deal with a large number of complex short selling contracts for stocks and bonds of individual target companies, such as CBS, United Airlines, American newspaper group, tezon securities, etc. This shows Janet's talent to Simon's surprise. Women are usually lazy, but they can accurately understand a series of contracts with a total value of more than $30 billion under leverage. Like the operation of the Japanese market, Simon does not expect cersei capital's layout to be absolutely confidential. However, during this period, the short activity of North American financial market against junk bonds has been obviously noticed by major financial media, but cersei capital's participation has not been reported in the newspapers. Obviously, the followers who have heard the news in private are cleverly making a fortune. When the two arrived in New York, Janet began to appear at the headquarters of westero company in midtown Manhattan every day under the pretext of conducting financial audit on westero company. In fact, it was to directly control cersei capital sub fund team hidden in westero company. Simon wants to pay attention to the New York movies ghost and Ninja Turtle, both of which started in August and are expected to be released around November. Lower Manhattan. In an apartment building in Soho District, ghost is shooting some daily scenes of the hero and heroine. Simon had spent three days watching the sample films of the two films and discussed with the creator about some modifications. Today, he spent the whole day watching the production of ghost. The new version of ghost is basically composed of the original crew from the leading role to the director. Simon is not too worried about the quality of the film. It's closing time in the afternoon. Demi Moore finished her last scene today, went to Simon in the rest area, sat down next to him, waited for him to finish a conversation with the producer, and interjected: "Simon, the song you chose" unrestrained melody "with the scene of making pottery is really classic, and the original album of this film will certainly sell like" bodyguard " Simon said with a smile, "is it just an original album? You don't have much faith in this movie "Of course not. It's going to be a big sale," Demi Moore said, laughing. "I'll be off work soon. Would you like to have dinner with me in the evening?" Simon shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I have plans for the evening." "Then tomorrow night, you won't be in Manhattan for only one day, will you?" Simon just shook his head again. Demi Moore shrugged disappointingly. As the producer on the other side of Simon walked away, the woman came up and whispered, "Simon, in this case, I'm going to take off my make-up in the trailer. Do you want to come with me?" Simon didn't want to report that a movie king and a movie queen were having an affair on the set and got a trailer. The whole crew was embarrassed. What's more, the woman next to him just tasted something fresh. Simon didn't get involved with her too much, so he said with a smile, "Demi, my assistant is coming to send me information soon. You have to go to remove your makeup by yourself." Demi Moore was rejected again, but still didn't give up easily. If she can establish a lover relationship with this little man who has already reached the top of the federal wealth and is in the ascendant of Hollywood power, her next development in Hollywood will definitely be a thoroughfare. As a result, she gave Simon a business card with her Manhattan address and contact information. After seeing the man put it in her pocket, Demi Moore finally got up and left. In the evening, it was a banquet at the leibulde's house, which mainly introduced Joseph schrap, the head of schrap consulting company, to Simon. Westero company has confirmed that it will become the largest investor of this political consulting company which provides party with election investigation and election plan. The first sum of 3 million US dollars was delivered last month. Schrap also began to assist in the New York mayoral election of David Dinkins, who was supported by Westeros. The federal Campaign Act has very strict restrictions on campaign donations in the United States. Businesses, banks and other business groups are prohibited from donating to candidates. Individual donations also have various restrictions. However, in recent years, through the political action committee and public welfare election funds, the American corporate giants and the rich class have never stopped intervening in political elections. The two major political parties can benefit from it. Naturally, they will not actively seek to make up for these obvious loopholes. On the contrary, the loopholes continue to expand.
