People can gain nothing without sacrificing something, and to gain something, one must pay an equal price – this is the principle of alchemy in the eyes of people in the non-magical world. In a world where magic does not exist, this is the reality of the world.

Wealth is not created out of thin air. The greatest function of the financial market is to redistribute wealth, not to create value.

Compared to the former Soviet Union, which could only rely on incomplete historical data to infer the past, the economic situation and market development of the United States, China, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France are far too familiar to Erina. As the world's largest economy in the present and also in the next few decades of the original historical trajectory, the US macro economy holds no secrets for Erina.

Unless a second time traveler appears, no one in this era understands the United States better than Erina.

Whether it's the awkward point of economic bubbles, the direction of capital flow, the subprime financial crisis that has yet to erupt, or even the unemployment wave tens of thousands of miles away, and the lack of social productivity after the end of the Cold War, all of these are under her control.

With the establishment of the "Gringotts Hogwarts Russian Federation Central Reserve System," almost all the wandering capital that intended to carve up the bear meat fell into this terrible quagmire overnight. The "Potato Credit Redemption New Currency (referred to as Bean Coins)" returned all capital to its most primitive state – barter, with currency directly linked to necessities.

Faced with a completely closed-loop market economy and the most primitive trading system, the Federal Reserve and all the other established capitalist countries had no room to implement military sanctions, financial sanctions, technological blockades, or trade sanctions.

You need to know that the economic situation in the United States and the United Kingdom at this time is not as optimistic as it appears.

In this summer when the red afterglow of the former Soviet Union has not yet dissipated, no force dares to actively start a hot war on this land. Rather than facing the terrible red steel torrent again, they would rather temporarily freeze in the "Bean Coin" trap.

Therefore, the only way left to hedge the economy and release domestic pressure is –

"Gariweix, you know... what is the most effective way to form an alliance in this world?"

Erina leaned on the back of the Hyperion's captain's exclusive chair, gently shaking the pomegranate juice in her hand, watching the red liquid slowly flow on the wall of the glass, pretending she was tasting the finest red wine, and asked casually.

Beside her, Gariweix, who had just been promoted to the head of Gringotts' external liaison, shook his head and replied hesitantly.

"Irresistible benefits? Or... do you mean a common enemy?"

"Yes, but also no –"

Erina smiled slightly, her lake-blue eyes gleaming dangerously.

"If you only have a common enemy, it's far from the most appropriate time – being forced into a desperate situation little by little under unfair confrontation, and desperately looking for allies to survive, that's the most stable and efficient."

"Even if we have to deal with the Magical Congress of the United States of America and the American goblins, the magical side should never be the first to launch an attack."

"Proxy war, this is the intervention model that the magical world should have – the British magical world is indeed powerful, but the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is no longer the empire on which the sun never sets..."

Erina elegantly drained the scarlet liquid in her cup, put down the glass, stood up and walked to the window of the Hyperion.

Outside the window, Hogwarts Castle, located in the Scottish Highlands, had just awakened.

Bright and soft morning light passed through the clouds and fell on Hogwarts Lake, rippling with layers of brilliant water.

Erina opened her arms and let the warm sunshine fall on her body. Thousands of miles behind her, the chimneys of countless families were just rising with the smoke of breakfast, and the German Central Bank announced that it was considering reallocating the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Further away, in the White House in Washington, D.C., a top-priority classified document appeared on Mr. George's desk – the "Maastricht Treaty" loophole analysis and sniper draft.

In the next few hours, it, along with the news of the establishment of the [gh Russian Federation Central Reserve System], would become the focus of everyone's debate, and would be launched in less than a week.

However, no one knew...

As early as half a year ago, before the official terms of the "Treaty on European Economic and Monetary Union" were finalized, Gringotts Wizarding Bank had already conducted a very comprehensive sand table deduction for the same situation.

Erina took a deep breath, as if smelling an extremely tempting fragrance, and a look of intoxication appeared on her face.

"Ruble crisis, pound crisis... this summer may become the most exciting moment in human financial history... The capital world under severe blood loss, this time it's not a sniping war that can be ended by admitting defeat. It's really... so exciting."

So this is what it feels like to subvert the world?

Tsk... it's such an addictive thing...

"Gariweix, pass on my order..."

Erina gently raised her hand and waved her fingers casually in the air.

"From now until the end of September, Gringotts Wizarding Bank's financial business in the non-magical world will be reduced to one-tenth of its original frequency, and instead, it will focus on collecting evidence of interference in the market by the American magical world and American goblins!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, your will is the will of the entire Gringotts Wizarding Bank."

Gariweix placed his left hand on his chest and bowed respectfully.

After more than half a year of getting along, and having witnessed the terrible power contained in the capital of the new era, there was no longer any voice questioning this young goblin empress within the entire Gringotts Wizarding Bank.

"Very good, then I'll leave the rest to you all. As for me..."

Erina nodded with satisfaction and casually flicked her hair.

Silver hair flashing with light golden light swept through the air, and the originally still air suddenly rippled with a trace of waves.

In the next moment, countless dense magical runes appeared in front of Erina's eyes.

Red, green, black, and blue lines quickly intertwined and outlined in mid-air, forming a miniature version of the Hyperion's hull structure diagram, and names the size of rice grains wandered in the grid – for Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore, casting a range name spell was not too difficult.

As an aerospace carrier that took half a year to build, it almost represents the highest level of the magical world today.

Erina carefully looked at the "monitoring" in front of her, compared the notes next to each room, and carefully straightened the wrinkles on her clothes, facing the window that had turned into a mirror, and said softly.

"Open the Floo Network of Reactor No. 3, Reactor No. 9, Reactor No. 11, and Reactor No. 19..."

"Open the quick passage from Reactor No. 7 to the bridge, raise the main reactor on the bridge, retract the main gun, reduce the Hyperion's alert status to level three, dispel the invisibility magic on the hull, and raise the solar panels to start accumulating energy..."

As a senior student at Hogwarts and a potions assistant teacher, she should also go meet this year's freshmen...

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