Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

In the morning, a quarter past nine.

Wall Street, Stanley [-]th Floor.

Sam Rogers stood at the door of his office, took a pot of hot coffee from his secretary, turned to look at the "distinguished guests" who had just sat down, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

David once told him that Pine and Elder are both action men with incredible execution abilities!

David just told Sam yesterday that he would contact the senior management of the international trader Phibro Company to purchase a batch of silver spot.

Today, through Elder’s connections, Pine invited Ludwig Jesselson, the meritorious chairman of the board of directors of Phibro Corporation, and David Tedder, the current chairman of the board of directors of Phibro Corporation. Le. .

. . .

in the office.

Sam personally poured a cup of hot coffee for Mr. Jesselson, who was already over seventy years old, and poured a cup of hot coffee for David Tedler, who was just over forty years old and energetic.

Pine did not regard himself as a guest at this time, and took the initiative to take the coffee pot from Sam, poured himself a cup, and smiled at Mr. Jesselson.

"How is your health recently?"

"Are you still used to retirement life?"

"Hehe~"

Jesselson showed a very relaxed state, raised his hand and pointed at David Tedler, whom he trusted most, and smiled.

“After the company was handed over to him, I became obsessed with fishing and golf~”

"A few days ago, my family and I just returned from vacation in Cape Town, South Africa."

"Cape Town?"

"I haven't been there before. Is the scenery beautiful?"

"Yes~"

"There.."

Pine and Mr. Jesselson, who was sitting close by, chatted casually about travel, fishing and golf. .

Sam sat down next to David Tedler with a cup of hot coffee and took the initiative to chat about various recent news in the commodity market.

Mr. Tedler, who has short golden brown hair, wears a bright red tie at the collar, a sky blue shirt, and a pure white cashmere sweater, making him look full of energy.

With a friendly smile on his lips, he was chatting with Sam about the news happening in the futures market, and on the other hand he was listening carefully to the conversation between Pine and Jesselson.

After a few minutes.

Pine put down the coffee cup in his hand, looked down at his watch, and said apologetically.

"I have an important meeting to attend later."

"Do you think we should discuss business first?"

"Of course!"

Jesselson smiled and shrugged, giving up his "seat" to David Tedler.

Mr. Tedler glanced at Sam who was hesitant to speak, and asked Pine curiously: "Do you want to talk about...silver?"

"That's right!"

Pine took out a file bag from the briefcase he carried with him, took out several bound investigation materials and distributed them to the three of them, smiling.

"At the end of 73, while we paid close attention to the gold market, we also conducted a very detailed investigation into the silver market~"

"Later, the Mexican government sold a large amount of silver spot to the international silver market, causing the price of silver to fail to keep up with the price of gold and maintaining it at a relatively low price until now!"

"However, since Iran announced last month that it would stop oil exports, international gold prices have risen accordingly."

"The silver futures market price has also seen some changes!"

"Forward silver contracts have also risen for seven consecutive trading days due to the upward climb in gold prices."

“However, the recent price of silver contracts has deviated from the general market expectations!”

Pine stopped here and carefully observed the expressions of David Tedler and Jesselson. He found that the two of them did not show too much surprise or were in a state of thinking, and said with a smile.

“We believe now is the best time to buy spot silver!”

"Phibro Company's trade network spans the world."

"You have always maintained a good cooperative relationship with the top government officials of Mexico, one of the world's largest silver-producing countries."

"so.."

"Ok!"

Jesselson looked through the investigation information in his hand, but his brows furrowed more and more.

With a bit of doubt and a bit of curiosity in his eyes, he pointed to the data on one of the pages and asked Pine.

“According to our company’s market research in previous years, the total annual silver trading volume in the world is approximately 3000 million ounces.”

"Even if the silver market has attracted the attention of some investors due to its gradually rising prices in recent years, its total annual transaction volume is not as huge as the number shown in this document... right?"

Pine restrained himself from the pride in his eyes and explained: "I think you have misunderstood!"

"The survey information you have in your hand is a comprehensive market survey that took us more than 5 months and more than 700 million yuan to conduct on the underlying silver trading markets in more than 100 major cities in the world!"

"Please take a look at the data on page No. 14 first!"

"The above lists in detail our various real total trading volume survey data on the silver market since September last year."

“And the total trading volume you mentioned of about 3000 million ounces per year is also included in it.”

"..."

Jesselson quickly turned to page No. 14 and looked at the various data listed above carefully. He could no longer keep calm~

David Tedler, who was sitting next to him, quickly read the data in the document. He was also extremely shocked, but he asked even more puzzledly.

"What is the use of investigating these... data on ordinary people's purchase of silver jewelry and use of silver products?"

"Hehe~"

Pine leaned back on the sofa, took out a shiny coin from his coat pocket, spread his palms and smiled.

"Actually, we didn't figure out why we wanted to investigate these data at first. It seemed like useless data~"

"But a friend of mine, with his unique perspective and way of thinking, showed me a picture... that was submerged in the dust of history!"

Pine put the coin in his hand on his thumb, bounced it up hard and caught it, smiling.

"Just like the coin in my hand."

"When it is placed still somewhere, we only pay attention to one side of it, but ignore the other side."

"And our world has always been like silver coins rolling in the air, with some unknown changes happening all the time!"

"So, when we need to make an important decision, we must first let ourselves keep rolling with the silver coin and focus on observing the other side of it, so that we can have some more certain judgments about the future~"

“Silver has actually never left the core of the precious metals market!”

Pine put the silver coins in his hand in front of Jesselson, rested his elbows on his knees, put away all his smiles, and whispered,

"President Kennedy signed a bill during his term... to replace the gold standard with the silver standard, Bill 10001."

"It's just that this bill didn't gain support within Congress, so it ended up being nothing."

“So, the country that currently has the largest silver spot reserves in the world is the United States!”

"The price of gold is now more than 30 times that of silver, and it is still rising."

"You said, if the price of gold is forty, fifty, or sixty times that of silver, will it really happen?"

"..."

Jesselson looked at Pine with sharp eyes, nodded silently, and said nothing.

David Tedler put down the information with his left hand, frowned and thought for a moment, then asked Sam next to him.

"How much do you want to sell?"

"Of course, the more, the better!" Sam replied seriously,

"..."

Tedler turned to look at Jesselson and thought for a moment: "We won't be able to deliver a batch of around 60 ounces of silver spot until the middle of next month at the earliest."

"Any more, and it might attract some people's attention!"

"60?"

This time it was Pine and Sam's turn to frown and look at each other in tacit understanding.

Sam quickly calculated the total amount of funds at hand, clenched his fists, looked at David Tedler, and whispered.

“Three months, 3000 million ounces!”

"can you do it?"

"Hi~"

Tedler took a deep breath in surprise, stared at Sam and asked, "Market price?"

"Delivery price in the futures market!"

"make a deal!!"

"..."

Jesselson had adjusted his emotions at this time and watched quietly as David Tedler and Sam Rogers reached a deal, his mouth tightly shut.

. . .

Twenty minutes later.

David Tedler and Jesselson walked out of Stanley Gate and stood on the street looking back at the tall buildings.

Tedler felt that he had figured out a lot at this time, but he still asked Jesselson.

"Who are they... targeting?"

"I don't know~ We don't need to know!" Jesselson's answer was full of wisdom.

He opened the rear door and let Tedler get into the car. Then he motioned to the driver to go out and wait for a while. After pondering for a moment, he said.

"The trading rules of the futures market have long destined it to be a hunting ground."

"They talk about being bullish on silver futures, but they buy a large number of spot stocks for reserves."

"When they feel that the silver market price has reached a suitable position, they can use the large amount of spot stock in their hands to sell themselves long orders and buy short."

“What about the bulls?”

"Even if you don't die, your skin will still peel off!"

"..."

David Tedler, who was familiar with the trading rules of the futures market, fell silent.

Jesselson glanced at Tedler who was lost in thought, smiled and patted his arm: "Don't think about it."

"No matter what they want to do, it has nothing to do with us!"

"But ~ the friend that Pine talks about, if you have a chance to meet him, you must try your best to make good friends with him!"

"Okay!" Tedler took a deep breath and nodded seriously.

"Hehe~"

Jesselson looked at the Stanley Building from the car window, shook his head slightly and sighed: "Morgan...!"

"Wall Street is going to be uneasy again~"

----

USA, Texas.

West of downtown Houston, 19 Piney Point Village, Memorial District, Piney Point Village.

Three cars slowly parked on the street.

The driver of the second car, One-Eyed Andres, got out of the car and walked not far away to stretch out and enjoy the warm sunshine.

In the car behind him.

David pulled Edward B. Trin and smiled: "You don't have to thank me for anything~"

"This is what I should do!"

"..Haha~"

Old Cui En understood very well and sighed with a smile: "There is never anything in this world that should or shouldn't be done!"

"Mary Sue's character is actually all my fault..."

"No, no, no!"

"Don't say that!"

David glanced at Lilith and Laura who got off the car in front, and smiled: "Whether it is the dream-chasing Mary Sue or the ordinary Mary Sue, she is your favorite daughter!"

"It's just that she is the same as me now, she hasn't found the right direction~"

"Time will make her understand everything."

"Everything will get better slowly~"

"Well!" Old Cui En felt that the big stone that had been weighing on his heart for a long time finally became loose.

He smiled easily, nodded and said, "Thank you!"

"You're welcome~" David winked deliberately and opened the car door.

"Andres will take you to the airport in a moment."

"How many days will we see you again?"

"goodbye!"

. . .

Old Cui En, gone.

in the living room.

David led Lilith, Laura, Toby Olga and Mr. Longhorn to meet his mentor Professor Bartley.

Professor Bartley, who had heard about the constant gossip about David always being surrounded by beautiful women, looked at the somewhat embarrassed Toby Olga with a smile, and asked deliberately pretending to be curious.

"She's your new secretary?"

"Uh..." David didn't expect that the instructor would still ask questions even though he had already introduced him. .

He shamelessly walked up to Toby, patted her on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "This is the best work assistant I have met in London."

"Because the manuscript of my book will involve a lot of professional financial terms."

"Toby, who has worked in the City of London for several years, is more accepting of these new terms."

"So, I brought her here to help."

"Oh~"

Seeing Toby's face getting redder and redder, Professor Bartlett changed the subject while holding back his laughter, and asked Laura next to Lilith.

"When you come here this time, you won't want to steal my collection again, right?"

"steal?"

"I didn't steal it!"

"You watched me take those!" Laura defended with a super thick skin.

"Hehe~"

Professor Bartley shrugged in amusement and complained to David: "She took it away right in front of my eyes before I agreed."

"This isn't considered stealing, it should be considered an open robbery, right?"

"Hahaha~"

David pointed to the study room to Toby and asked her to go there first to get ready. He walked behind Professor Bartley, held the handle of the wheelchair and smiled.

"Look at her, how cute she is!"

"How can this be considered robbery?"

"You didn't hide the things well on purpose, right?"

"Hahaha~"

Professor Bartlet turned his head and pointed at David, smiled and shook his head: "You kid, you must be deliberately irritating me!"

"I didn't...how could it be? Impossible!"

"Hahaha~"

Professor Bartlet looked at Lilith and Laura, who were also smiling together, and suddenly felt a lot warmer~

----

the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, in the central and western part of the island country.

night~

In a high-end hotel near the pier.

David's butler Acklade Parkinson pointed to a piece of information in the hands of Yuri Orlov and Marat and explained.

"Due to the rapid development of the island country after World War II, and the fact that all its raw materials need to be imported from abroad..."

"As a result, there has been a faint crack between the major financial groups in the island country that currently seems to be peacefully cooperating!"

"For example: after the last oil crisis, the Mitsubishi Foundation and the Sumitomo Foundation took the lead in relocating some domestic enterprises and companies with a huge demand for imported raw materials to overseas countries in Southeast Asia."

"Consortiums such as Mitsui and Fuji also followed suit and moved some heavy chemical, textile and steel companies abroad."

“Their move of companies abroad has reduced the current total demand for crude oil in island countries by about 20% compared to five years ago.”

“So, if you want to find big customers in island countries to buy spot crude oil, you can only choose to continue to cooperate with Hoichiro Yasuda to ensure the rapid turnover of funds.”

Marat finished reading the information in his hand, frowned, lit a cigarette, and asked thoughtfully.

"Boss, have you contacted those international traders?"

"Not yet~"

"but.."

Aklade hesitated, looked at Yuri Orlov and said, "My friend told me that Vitol is not the only company that buys spot crude oil from the Nakhodka Commercial Port."

"Because on the Hokkaido side, some people have seen oil tankers passing by the sea frequently..."

"..."

Yuri and Marat looked at each other and fell silent.

Aclade, seeing the serious expressions on the two people's faces, smiled and sighed: "Actually, you have done a good job, there is no need to think about anything anymore~"

"The boss, I will tell him the details."

"No matter what he decides, we just do it~"

"Yeah!" Yuri nodded heavily and responded.

Marat frowned and asked, still worried: "What about what we said to Lermontov today...?"

Akelaide looked at Marat's "flashing" eyes, put away his smile and asked, "Are you worried about Popov?"

"Correct!"

Marat took a long drag on his cigarette, hesitated for a few seconds, and whispered, "Can you think of a way to let him come out with his family?"

"come out?"

"Correct!"

"..."

Ackleide thought for a moment, shook his head slowly and said, "Sorry, I can't do it."

"..."

Marat suddenly felt weak and leaned back on the sofa, staring up at the ceiling without speaking.

Yuri could understand his mood at the moment, looked at Ackleide and asked: "If we pay more, can you ask a friend to help?"

"money?"

"Hehe~"

Acklade stood up, took back all the information the two of them had read and put it into his bag, waving his hands.

"Let me go and ask~"

"But I can't promise anything."

"ok, thank you!"

"Need not."

Acklade looked at Marat and tapped his chest with his hand: "I just fulfilled my promise."

"After that, it's up to you!"

"...Okay!" Marat put out the cigarette butt and nodded seriously.

"Hmm~"

Ackleide nodded with satisfaction and left.

Yuri Orlov walked him to the door of the room, watched him enter the elevator, and then closed the door again.

Marat felt a glimmer of hope rekindled, and smiled with relief and asked Yuri: "Hey~ some more money?"

"Hehe~"

"Are you sure we have money?"

"of course not.."

Yuri felt regretful and slapped his forehead, walked to his old seat and sat down, and said frustratedly: "But if I didn't say that, he would definitely not help."

"..." Marat took a few deep breaths to calm down his emotions, and his brain began to quickly analyze the information Ackleide brought.

. . .

the other side.

When Ackleide Parkinson walked out of the hotel door, inside the window of a room on the fourth floor of the hotel, Yasuda Fengichiro withdrew his gaze.

He walked over to Toshiki Wada and sat down, picked up a cup of hot tea, thought about it and asked.

"Tomorrow morning, will you go over and talk to them in detail?"

"Ok!"

Toshiki Wada put down the tea cup in his hand, felt the heat of the tea in his stomach, and whispered: "Don't worry, they only have one choice!"

Ps:

In fact, as long as we carefully observe the so-called free financial market in the United States from a historical perspective of the past 50 years, it is not difficult to find some of the things hidden underwater. .

For example: American retail investors are going to beat up Wall Street. .Unplugging the network cable incident!

For example: oil futures fell into negative numbers. .

For example: the US stock market circuit breaker incident. .

For example: after the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, there were hidden incidents revealed in movies such as "The Ultimatum", "Too Big to Fail", "The Big Short" and "Wall Street 2". .

For example: In 2005, SEC investigators had obtained the right to review the accounts of fund companies under Bernard Madoff's name, but did not take a closer look. .

For example: The Internet bubble burst in 2000~

and many more!

Incidents like this happen again and again almost every few years!

The ultimate victim will just be. .Ordinary people who pay for everything.

The story I want to tell is also to help as many people as possible avoid becoming "leeks" and have a broader perspective on the increasingly "fantasy" world!

30 years later.

If I were still alive, if it was reported on the news. .There is a new mutant species of prawns living in the Pacific that can fly. .

I won’t be particularly surprised, but will brag to my descendants~

Sea-caught prawns, 80 each!

hehe~

Since we can't change anything, let's try to change ourselves first!

I said some nonsense, but it was all based on my feelings.

It's wasting everyone's time.

sorry~

bow!