Economic Turmoil: 1990

[Reborn in 1990: I Use Economics to Beat the Competition by an Entire Dimension]

Nobel-winning economist Lin Zhiyuan is reborn in a university dormitory, with a fortune of five hundred yuan in his hands.

He knows that in a month, stock subscription warrants will soar a hundredfold.

He also knows that the thirty workers at his mother's factory are counting on that five hundred yuan to stay alive.

While all his classmates scramble to buy subscription warrants, he turns and walks into a state-owned factory on the verge of bankruptcy.

His professor calls him an idiot: “Economics is meant to teach you how to make money, not do charity!”

He smiles and writes an equation on the blackboard: Human nature + institutions + leverage = maximum returns.

While his classmates grow rich on subscription warrants, he quietly devises China's first “Entrepreneurship Plan for Laid-Off Workers.”

While the wealthy lose themselves in the stock market's myths, he quietly gets his hands on the first plot of land in Pudong's development.

When international financial predators strike, he has already laid out the whole game

“You play the game of capital.”

“I play the game of using economics to reshape an era.”