Manhattan Reborn 1978

Island country, Tokyo.

night~

Tokyo Imperial Hotel, 1-1 Uchisuki-cho, east of Hibiya Park, Chiyoda-ku.

After David chatted for a while and settled in Manqi's room, he made a direct call to her family.

On the phone, Malkin Sr., Serna and his wife, as well as Manqi's children, chatted happily with her.

David saw the smile on Manqi's face again, silently exited the room, closed the door, and returned to the living room of his room.

Karnes Rothschild, Bill Gutherland and Peter F. Wallenberg Jr., who had been waiting here for a long time, were all sitting quietly on the sofa watching the TV news.

Mr. Tianniu, who helped the little secretary Maggie arrange the room, saw David coming back from the door of the room. He went up to greet him and whispered a few words, then turned and went out.

"Hey ~ what are you looking at?" David watched Mr. Tianniu leave and stood at the door of the living room and smiled at the three of them.

Bill, who had his back turned to David, waved to him and explained: "Your President Warren White formally submitted to Congress yesterday afternoon a budget proposal for next year's government spending."

"In an interview after submitting this proposal, he said that he would cut military spending by about 20 billion yuan."

"He plans to use this money to continue to improve the domestic strategic petroleum reserve plan, hoping to use the increase in crude oil reserves to reduce the increase in inflation that may be caused by rising international oil prices."

"At the same time, he will also actively urge major domestic oil companies to increase production; negotiate with OPEC member states to gradually increase crude oil exports, etc."

Karnes picked up the TV remote control and turned off the volume, tilted his head and looked at David and smiled.

"Long queues at gas stations have been going on for more than a month, and President White just thought of taking government measures to control the rise in oil prices?"

"Is he too inefficient?"

David glanced at little Peter, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and saw him looking at him silently as well, spreading his hands and smiling.

"You actually have such unrealistic illusions about the U.S. government?"

"The United States today is not the United States during World War II!"

"The current president, Warren White, is not Roosevelt either!"

"It is very difficult for him to provide the public with a relatively reliable government decision in such a short period of time~"

"What else do you want?"

"Haha~" Karnes heard the slightly teasing question and turned to look at little Peter with a smile.

Little Peter sat on a single sofa, looked directly at David, and asked with a smile slowly appearing on his lips.

"The current international oil prices and gold prices have experienced a surge as you predicted."

"Our bargain-hunting investments have all made a fortune in this rise."

"what's next?"

"Do you think they will continue to rise?"

"Of course!"

"Wait a minute, I'll get something." David nodded very confidently, walked into the bedroom and pulled out an oversized suitcase, and opened it while rummaging through the information under the gaze of the three people.

"Let's talk about oil prices first~"

"Many people don't particularly understand what Khomeini's status among Iranian Shiites actually represents!"

"And what changes he will bring after he returns to Iran safely..."

"In fact, Khomeini was already an ayatollah-level leader among Iran's Shias more than ten years ago."

"In the hierarchy of Shiite Islam, there are three levels: Grand Ayatollah, Ayatollah, and Khojat Islam."

"Only a very small number of Shiite religious scholars (ulema) can reach the level of Grand Ayatollah."

"After Khomeini returned to Iran, he became the country's supreme leader through a referendum."

"The supreme leader is a position created according to the Iranian constitution and is the highest political and religious position in the country."

"So when he left Paris and got on the flight back to Tehran, Iran, it seemed to me that the oil crisis that had been brewing for a long time was a foregone conclusion!"

"No way?"

"He once publicly stated in Paris that he would continue to maintain good diplomatic relations between Iran and the United States and other countries!" Karnes habitually rubbed his chin with his hand and continued.

"Did he say that?"

"I told you!"

"Haha~"

"He lied!"

"You were deceived by him too!"

"..." Kanes stared and fell silent.

Little Peter looked at Bill, and when he saw him nodding to indicate that it was indeed true, his brows immediately wrinkled.

David raised his head and glanced at the expressions of the three people before continuing with a smile.

"Khomeini and the large interest groups he represents have always been very dissatisfied with the comprehensive Westernization reform policy implemented by Iran's Shah Pahlavi II."

“Let’s take the most intuitive example~”

"In recent years, women in Iran have slowly taken off their full-body robes and worn the most fashionable long skirts and trousers in public, actively responding to the rising women's rights movement in the country, etc."

“These are subverting the fundamentals of religious interest groups!”

"If we think about the huge religious interest group represented by Khomeini and the capital interest group represented by Pahlavi II from the perspective of ordinary people..."

"Even if Pahlavi II controls the army, it will be difficult to solve the wave of resistance that breaks out from the lowest levels of the people."

"And..." (A few hundred words are omitted here.)

David stopped rummaging for information, handed several documents to the nearest Bill, pointed at it with his finger and said.

"So, from the moment Pahlavi II fled Iran, Khomeini returned to his country, and successfully became the supreme leader of the country..."

"He has become one of the most critical unstable factors in the oil crisis!"

"The slight decline in international oil prices after the sharp rise is only temporary."

“用不了几个月，国际油价就会连续突破30、40和50、60米元整数关口，达到至少65-70米元左右，才会进入下一个价格调整期。。”

"Then what?" Kanes' eyes flashed with excitement and he asked in a low voice.

"Do you think that 70 meters is its limit?"

"of course not!"

David raised a finger to Carnes: "I bet that the highest price of oil will exceed 130 meters per barrel!"

"What about you? How much do you think it will break through?"

"Ah...?" Kanesba's eyes widened, his mouth opened in disbelief, and he muttered as his mind went blank.

"If I hadn't sold those crude oil spots a few days ago, I would have made more than six times the profit!"

"Hahaha~ Stop dreaming!" David ruthlessly broke his dream and said with a smile.

"Don't forget, most novices who speculate will die from ignorance and fearlessness, and most experienced players will die from doubling their leverage!"