At this moment—
Kerr Cowell returned from the restroom and heard what Howard Lee had just said. He sat down at the table, casually picked up a cold bottle of mineral water, twisted the cap off, and said, "Finance?"
"The finance in this world is much more brutal than our Blue Star."
"The capitalists of Blue Star manipulate financial markets by secretly promoting wars, while the Federal finance is about making profits in financial markets directly through wars."
He hasn't forgotten where his first pot of gold came from since he started working with Irving Grey.
It was by short-selling Olivia Owen Company in advance. When the company became aware of capital being used to short it, before they could react, they learned that Olivia Owen Star had been destroyed, causing a direct and rapid collapse, dead and gone.
But it's not just the Olivia Owen Company that died.
It was also those stockholders who held large positions in the Olivia Owen Company.