Min Congda, who received US$1.5 million, temporarily stopped struggling and began to enjoy his wonderful life in Los Angeles.
Of course, as a working-class person in China, his first thought after getting money is not to buy a car or luxury goods, but to invest part of it in the stock market and continue to increase his holdings of Apple shares.
Apple's stock price will continue to rise for many years to come, because selling it directly to get money will result in high income taxes, so Min Congda is prepared to take more shares to receive dividends.
The current price of one share of Apple has reached US$445, which has doubled compared to when Min Congda bought Apple shares two years ago.
After two years of doubling, many investors have doubled their principal and have left the stock market and taken profits.
But Min Congda didn't. He knew that Apple's stock price was far from over. It was only over 400 US dollars, which was still a very low price.
1.5 million US dollars, he spent another 1 million US dollars to buy more than 20,000 Apple shares in one go. Adding in his previous cumulative purchases of Apple shares, the total number of shares held has reached 35,000 shares.
With the popularity of the iPhone, Apple's stock price has increased significantly in the past two years. Therefore, at the beginning of 2012, Apple has decided to start paying dividends this year. The initial dividend plan is to pay US$2.65 per share.
Therefore, Min Congda can get more than 90,000 US dollars in dividends in one dividend.
Although Min Congda is not a U.S. citizen, he has to pay a 30% dividend tax when buying stock dividends because he has lived and lived in the United States for a long time.
In other words, you can get 70,000 US dollars in one dividend, and then the IRS will take away more than 20,000 US dollars.
Although it hurts, more than 70,000 US dollars is nearly 500,000 yuan, and an annual salary of 500,000 yuan is not a small amount of satisfaction for a working class like Min Congda?
Besides, he still has nearly 1 million US dollars in cash deposits in his hand, and he doesn't know where to invest it yet.
He remembered that some Bitcoin would appear in a while, and its value would skyrocket in the later period. Maybe he could hoard some by then.
Then he considered saving more money to buy a house in Los Angeles.
Although 1 million US dollars can't buy a luxury house, it is still enough to buy a nice large flat or single-family house.
In short, relying on a bucket of popcorn, Min Congda gained a short-term small freedom of wealth, was mentally relaxed and satisfied, and temporarily left the cause of bankruptcy behind.
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This time he did not rent a yacht because he was tired of fishing, and February was not a good season for fishing.
He chose to go to the National Forest Park in California with his friends to enjoy the beautiful mountain atmosphere, go hunting, and call out the primitive and ambitious part of his heart.
Of course, there are also a group of beautiful international students accompanying them. As for whether there will be some fierce fighting in the wild, it depends on their own ideas and methods.
Although there is still a formal breakup with Daddario, there has been no contact between them since the last game against the Lakers.
Some nights, Min Congda would feel very uncomfortable. All kinds of good memories from the past kept coming to mind, like salt water washing a bloody wound. It hurt, but if you wash it too much, it would be disinfected and the wound would heal.
This kind of separation without too much noise and arguments is a good result for Min Congda.
It is not a bad thing for a relationship to collapse when it is already on the verge of collapse.
Otherwise, in the constant tearing and repetition, it will be eroded into ruins, which will only make the originally beautiful emotional building become dilapidated and ugly. It would be better to disappear with a "boom", leaving behind a once complete picture. Just keep the photos in your mind.
And just when Min Congda was happily celebrating the New Year with 1.5 million, the Los Angeles Clippers started a road trip.
In the last two games, the Clippers have still shown their instability.
When he is strong, he is really strong. Director Lu can play with any of the lineups he has, it all depends on how Director Lu is in mood today.
When they are weak, they are evenly matched with their opponents, because the biggest problem caused by big rotations is that the players' status is prone to instability.
For example, when playing against the Jazz, Harden was in excellent form, scoring a triple-double of 22 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in a single game.
Scored his first career triple-double.
But in the next game against the Nuggets, Harden struggled to get out of shape in the first quarter.
Because the Clippers' lineup is very solid, Director Lu didn't wait for Harden to get out of shape, and Butler and George came on stage one after another.
As a result, Harden was out of shape throughout the game.
Even Curry's condition was not good tonight. He also didn't have many opportunities to perform well, so the rotation began again.
To put it bluntly, if you want to perform well with the Clippers, it's best to turn yourself into a microwave oven.
I don't get a good rest at home back to back, I go out to play with women, drink, stay up late, and I'm not in good shape when it comes to the game at night.
Sorry, even if you are a star that the team focuses on training, the head coach will not give you time to develop your skills.
The Clippers have quite a few young players who need playing time to gain experience.
Tyronn Lue is different from Steve Kerr and Dunleavy.
If Steve Kerr were the head coach, he would definitely build a tactical system completely around Curry.
Except for the two pivots of Curry and Gasol, everyone else revolves around Curry. Harden can be a bench killer.
If it were Dunleavy, he would definitely appreciate the Harden-Randolph combination more and develop Curry into a scoring point guard.
Then Leonard, George and others supplemented as role players.
In short, they will definitely build a solid structure and tinker with it.
Tyronn Lue is no, he is the only person in the entire Clippers team who really believes in the "everyone has the ball to play" strategy.
And as the season progresses and the number of coaching games gradually increases, I become more and more convinced of this principle.
Sometimes there would be some arguments with Steve Kerr, and Coach Lu would use the theory of "everyone has the ball to play" to refute Kerr, but Kerr really had no choice.
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So, the Clippers, full of potential and full of instability, started this six-game away trip.
The first opponent is the rebuilt Washington Wizards.
Although the Wizards have No. 1 pick Wall, their overall strength is far behind that of the Clippers.
After two days of rest, the Clippers started a massacre in the capital, easily defeating the Wizards with a 40-point advantage at 121:81.
Curry and Harden scored 62 points together, while Wall only scored 14 points and 7 assists. The two taught the No. 1 pick a lesson.
The Clippers then turned to Orlando to challenge the Magic.
The Magic began to enter a downward spiral after consecutive failures in 10 and 11 years.
Turkoglu's return did not bring the Magic back to the track of 2009.
The Turkish agent's magic ends here, but Howard still has superior power.
Tekotru faced the siege of young forwards such as George, Leonard, and Butler, and made 0 of 7 shots without scoring a single point.
Howard scored 33 points in the game. After resisting the whole game, the Magic still lost to the Clippers 110:103, with a 7-point disadvantage.
The countdown to World of Warcraft leaving Orlando has been moved back a bit.
However, after the game, the Clippers had some injury problems.
Backup guard Dragic will miss a week due to an elbow injury.
Ricky Davis will undergo two weeks of treatment due to a thigh injury.
So, on February 7, the day before the Clippers were about to challenge the Cleveland Cavaliers, the coaching staff activated the dormant Jeremy Lin and Tucker and put them on the 12-man roster.
For Jeremy Lin, an opportunity is right in front of him.
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