Rebirth of England.

Chapter 966 Building Friendship
On November 11, Vanguard Group announced that their chairman and CEO F. William McKenna III resigned from all his positions for personal reasons, and the company's chief investment officer Tim Buckley will take over as chairman and CEO.

That same night, McKenna III died of a heart attack at home.

Barron, who received this news, had to admire the efficiency of the Vanguard Group. It seemed that they were not concerned about much else in order to end this matter as quickly as possible and exit with an acceptable loss...

In the original time and space, McKenna III served as the chairman and CEO of Vanguard Group until his retirement in 2018.

Now, because of a wrong choice, "unfortunate consequences" have occurred.

In addition, after the new chairman and CEO of Vanguard Group, Tim Buckley, took office, the first thing he did was to sign an agreement with financial giants including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase to transfer Vanguard Group's shares in listed companies controlled by Barron, including United Energy Group, SEM Group, DS Group and Woaw Technology, to these companies at an agreed price.

The "agreed price" they set is the price of the short-selling closing window left for Vanguard Group, BlackRock Group and State Street Group when Barron's DS Group stops operating.

Since John Bogle had shown his "sincerity", Barron followed the agreement and carried out the plan with him.

Even so, in this short-selling, not counting other institutions that followed suit, the three capitals also suffered heavy losses, and the losses are estimated to be around US$150 billion.

DS Capital's profit this time is conservatively estimated to be $165 billion. After all, the closing of such a large-scale short position will inevitably require DS Capital to transfer a portion of the shares of these companies that they purchased at a low price. In the process, although the transfer of shares is based on an agreement and no additional profit can be obtained, the remaining shares can still increase profits by selling them after the subsequent stock price rises.

The institutions controlled by Barron, such as IC Capital and BFT Fund, are major shareholders of Wall Street capital including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase.

During Barron's counterattack this time, these capitals were quick to act and joined the long positions in the listed companies controlled by Barron.

Although their investment was limited, the profits they obtained would certainly not be as lucrative as those of DS Capital, but they could still make some money by acquiring the shares transferred by the other party at the agreed price.

This is also Baron's move to win over capitals such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan after he realized that his relationship with Jewish capitals including Vanguard Group, BlackRock Group and State Street Group would become chaotic.

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"Hello, Mr. Haig, I'm glad to have the opportunity to meet you today."

"It is an honor, Your Highness."

The guest at Barron's residence today is the current Foreign Secretary William Hague.

Speaking of which, Hague is the most senior member of Cameron's cabinet. He was born in 1961 and is now 52 years old.

As early as when Hague was 16 years old, the speech he delivered at the Conservative Party's annual conference was praised by the then Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher.

In 1995, when Major reshuffled the cabinet after returning to the leadership of the Conservative Party, he appointed him Secretary of State for Wales.

In 1997, in the Conservative Party leadership election, the then 36-year-old and less noticeable Hague defeated the highly respected former Conservative Cabinet Chancellor of the Exchequer Clark with an absolute advantage of 92 votes to 70, becoming the youngest leader of the Conservative Party in 200 years.

It's just a pity that he was facing Blair, who had successfully reorganized the Labour Party and was invincible and charismatic.

Therefore, after the Labour Party was re-elected in the 2001 general election, Hague announced his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party. After that, he was one of Cameron's staunch supporters and was awarded the position of Foreign Secretary after Cameron took office.

Generally speaking, within the Conservative Party, Hague's position is similar to "order neutrality". He is conservative on some issues, but can also treat some issues moderately.

For example, he advocates the restoration of the death penalty and lowering tax rates, but he is not against same-sex marriage and does not support the vigorous development of private education.

In his position as Foreign Secretary, Hague positioned the relationship between Britain and the United States as "solid, but not blindly following". He has been trying his best to correct the attitude of the previous Labour government, especially that of Blair as Prime Minister, which blindly "followed" the United States.

At this point, Hague no longer has much ambition for his political future - next year in the original time and space, Hague will voluntarily resign as Foreign Secretary and serve as Speaker of the House of Commons to make room for Cameron to adjust cabinet members and add fresh blood to cope with the 2015 general election.

Therefore, there was no conflict between his plan and Barron's in terms of route planning, and he was a very suitable candidate for cooperation.

At the same time, Haig was also happy to establish a close "friendship" with Barron, the powerful Duke. Although the political ecology of Britain is far from having too obvious "political families" like that of the United States, in addition to political ambitions, Haig also needs to seek a better environment for his family to achieve continued prosperity.

Just like after Brown lost the position of Prime Minister, the Duke of Devonshire tried his best to seek the position of President of the IMF for him; and after losing the competition for the leadership of the Labour Party, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband became the chairman of the Prosperous Earth Foundation funded by His Royal Highness the Duke. These living examples make today's British politicians happy to establish friendly relations with them.

Of course, in addition to establishing friendship between each other, there was another thing to discuss during Barron and Haig's meeting this time.

Friday, June 11.

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Just before the weekend, many newspapers and media in Britain began to report on London Mayor Johnson's extramarital affair.

This includes the "affair" between American businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri and Cameron...

The two reportedly first met at a venture capitalist summit in London in October 2011.

At that time, Akuri, who was still studying for a master's degree in business administration in England, pretended to be the head of a venture capital club and sneaked into this high-end summit of the investment community, and cleverly used this identity to get close to Johnson.

The relationship between the two began on August 2012, 8, the opening day of the London Paralympic Games.

According to media reports, just a few hours after meeting Jennifer Arcuri at the hotel, Johnson, the mayor of London, appeared at the opening ceremony in a dapper outfit, accompanied by his then-wife Wheeler and several members of the British royal family...

Of course, Johnson had many extramarital affairs before this, and his relationship with Jennifer Arcuri is the most concerning, because Johnson is suspected of using his position as Mayor of London to facilitate Jennifer Arcuri's entry into the business world after graduation...

Amid the intensive coverage by these media, Johnson also came under tremendous public pressure in his position as mayor of London.

At this time, Barron had already left London...

On November 11, British Foreign Secretary William Hague led a delegation to visit Russia, and Barron arrived in Moscow as a member of the delegation.

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