Manhattan Reborn 1978

New York City, southwest.

Newark International Airport, New Jersey.

Newark International Airport is located in Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey.

It is about 24 kilometers northeast of Manhattan, New York City, and 97 kilometers southwest of downtown Philadelphia. It is one of the three major airports in the New York metropolitan area.

In 73, Terminals A and B of Newark International Airport were officially put into use.

Terminal A is operated and managed by United Airlines. The main structure is four stories high and has three satellite terminals. Satellite Terminal A3 to Satellite Terminal A1 have a total of 3 boarding gates.

It is primarily used for domestic flights operated by airlines other than United Airlines, Air Canada, and some flights operated by United Express, and does not have entry and exit facilities.

Terminal B is managed by the Port Authority. The main structure is four stories high and is mainly operated by Delta Air Lines. It has entry and exit facilities.

It is mainly used for short-haul flights operated by foreign airlines and Delta Airlines, and has 3 satellite terminals and 28 boarding gates.

. . .

Exactly eleven o'clock in the morning.

Newark International Airport, Terminal A, near Gate A23.

The younger generation of the Sidrich family, brothers Rosenlo Sidrich and Alto Sidrich, stood at the window and silently watched a Blue Star Airlines flight take off into the blue sky.

A few minutes later.

Only when both of them could no longer see the plane did Alto let out a long breath, took out his cigarette case, lit a cigarette, and sighed.

"If the weather forecast was not misleading, New York would not be listed as a high-risk area for nuclear radiation spread."

"..." Rosenluo, who was a bit dull, tilted his head to glance at his cousin, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, but he didn't say anything.

Behind the two of them, the gardener, who had just returned from a phone call, walked up to Alto and spoke with a smile.

"The latest news from Three Mile Island is that part of the core of Unit 2 of the nuclear power plant has already experienced high-temperature meltdown."

"Experts from the Washington Nuclear Energy Commission who rushed to Three Mile Island estimated that if the main cooling pump could not be restored within 24 hours, the extent of the core melt would continue to increase, which would lead to irreversible serious consequences."

"How... serious is it?" Rosenluo asked with a frown.

"Haha~" Mr. Gardener stretched out his hand, asked Alto for a cigarette, lit it, blew out a smoke ring and whispered.

"According to the current rate of core meltdown and the progress of emergency repairs, more than 24 million Curies of radioactive gas will be discharged into the atmosphere around the nuclear power plant within 200 hours."

"If there is still no definite progress in the nuclear leak repair work within 48 hours, more than 1000 million Curies of radioactive gas will be discharged into the surrounding atmosphere, endangering all areas within a radius of to kilometers."

"Oh, right!"

"There's also news coming from Washington..."

"President Wallen White's advisory group believes that in order to eliminate the public's panic about the nuclear leak, they should urgently deploy personnel to form a special commission and coordinate the management authority of various departments in accordance with the emergency plan to strive for..."

"So, they placed an order with a domestic company that could produce air Geiger counters, and planned to set up multiple timed measurement points around the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant to detect the value of radioactive substances in the air at any time."

"FXXK! FXXK!! These pigs are only smart after the event!" Alto felt a surge of blood rushing to his head and cursed through gritted teeth.

Rosenluo turned to look at the gardener with a serious expression, and asked with a twinkling gaze: "Where did you get this information? Your informant? Or...?"

"Does it matter?"

"..."

"Ha!" said the Gardener, laughing and blowing out another puff of smoke.

"Compared to this, I am actually more curious about who broke the news to the media in the first place."

"If it weren't for him, there wouldn't be this panic situation where everyone is in danger..."

"do you know?"

"Since this morning, domestic air ticket bookings at New York's three major airports have increased sixfold, and private jet route applications have skyrocketed more than forty times."

"Even the highway leaving downtown Manhattan, New York, heading north to Connecticut was jammed for two hours."

"Do you think there would be such a panic-stricken escape in New York if there hadn't been public reports in newspapers and on TV this morning?"

"..." Artaud and Rosenlo looked at each other, both feeling that what the gardener said seemed to have other implications.

Mr. Gardener did not explain too much and changed the subject.

"Did everyone in your family go to Los Angeles?"

"Yes."

"They will take a day off in Los Angeles before connecting to Hawaii for vacation."

"Not bad!"

"The temperature in Hawaii is just right right now, perfect for a vacation."

"When they come back, the dust here should be almost settled."

"What about you?"

"You two are planning to stay in New York and look after the family business?"

"Yeah." Rosenluo looked at the smile on the gardener's lips and suddenly remembered another thing, so he asked him.

"The city government is going to hold an open bidding meeting on Wednesday. Can you..."

"the day after tomorrow?"

"Ah."

“After all this, they haven’t announced a postponement or extension of the bid yet?”

"Not yet."

"Ha!" The gardener smiled in surprise and shook his head.

"Do you want to know the details of your rival bidders in advance? Or do you want to prevent them from bidding?"

"This... is all fine!" Rosenluo thought quickly in his mind for a few seconds and answered.

"Then I'll find someone to do both of these things!" The gardener's smile no longer contained any joking intent, and he spoke seriously.

"Okay!" Rosenluo nodded with a smile in his eyes but a very strange expression.

Seeing that the two had made such a "hasty" decision, Alto silently threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and turned to look out the window.

----

at the same time.

About a thousand kilometers away in the sky.

David, sitting in the first class cabin, asked a beautiful stewardess for a cup of coffee, then looked at Carnes and Gensuke Sawakawa and smiled.

"Recently, I have been paying attention to the research on economic cycle theory in economic theories of countries around the world."

“经济周期根据时间长度的不同，一般可分为四个类型～它们分别是3-4年的基钦周期、7-10年的朱格拉周期、15-25年的库兹涅茨周期、50-60年的康波周期。”

“The theory I agree with most is the 7-10 year Juglar Medium Cycle Theory.”

"Because it is divided into three stages of social and economic operation, namely prosperity, crisis and depression, marked by fluctuations in national income, unemployment rate and production, profits and prices in most economic sectors."

"The recurrence of the three stages forms a cyclical phenomenon."

"In 1862, French economist Gerard Juglar, who proposed the Juglar cycle theory, pointed out that crises are like epidemics, which are inevitable cyclical phenomena in developed industrial societies and can be foreseen or alleviated by taking certain measures."

“Cyclic fluctuations are automatic economic phenomena, directly related to the behavior of people, their saving habits, and the way they use available capital and credit.”

"Juglar also believes that factors such as politics, war, crop failures or climate change are not the main causes of cyclical fluctuations."

"But they will accelerate the trend of economic crisis and enter a depression at a faster pace. " |

"According to the Kondratieff cycle theory proposed by Nikolai Kondratiev in 1926, a 50-60 year Kondratieff cycle includes four stages: economic overheating, stagflation, recession and recovery. This is also the theoretical basis of the Merrill Lynch clock."

"Most Kondratieff theory researchers believe that since the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution, we have gone through four Kondratieff cycles~"

"Their landmark nodes are the emergence of textile machines and steam engines; the railway and steel age; the electrochemical age; the petroleum product and automobile age; and the high-tech information and communication age we are in now!"

David smiled and spread his hands, saying, "If we substitute the US economic data of the past twenty years into the Juglar cycle theory, it is not difficult to find..."

"After the global stock market boom in 72-73 reached the peak of the Juglar cycle theory boom, 76 and last year were both the second lowest points when the economies of countries around the world entered a downward crisis phase."

David picked up a pen, drew a picture on a blank piece of paper and showed it in front of the two of them, then looked at Carnes and said.

"From this simple chart, we can see that the Juglar cycle of the U.S. economy has entered the blurred boundary between crisis and depression."

“But if we were to put a very clear wave curve on them, I think the lowest point of this Juglar cycle might be three years away.”

"Three years?!" Gensuke Sawakawa frowned, seeming to disagree with David's point of view.

Kanes, who was lying on his back in his seat and staring at the chart for a while, gestured on the chart with his fingers a few times and asked with the same question: "What unexpected events do you think will happen... that will push this economic cycle to the lowest point?"

"Yes!"

"what is it?"

"I do not know."

"But I can vaguely guess something..." David fiddled with the pen in his hand and shrugged.

"Because after the 70s, the development of economic globalization has made more and more countries connected with each other, and this connection is realized through trade in goods and services, direct investment, indirect investment, financial markets and the spread of technology among countries."

"This increasing interconnectedness between countries has significantly increased the synchronization of global economic cycle fluctuations."

"The specific manifestation of the Juglar cycle is closely related to the development model and stage of development of different economies."

"Looking at the major economies around the world, the United States, as the fastest growing economy, has gradually entered a period of economic transformation."

"So if the government can restore stability to the domestic economic development structure and issue strong policies to stimulate domestic demand growth in the next three years..."

"Wait!" Carnes waved his hand to interrupt David, turned sideways and looked at Gensuke Sawakawa and asked.

"What is your purpose in coming to New York this time?"

"To be frank, I'm a little sleepy."

"..." Gensuke Sawakawa seemed to have known Kanes' character for a long time. He was stunned for a few seconds and then smiled.

"In fact, you should have guessed the purpose of my visit this time."

"I want to help the Yasuda family and get back what they once lost from other families in the island nation."

"Oh?"

"Tell me, what do you want?" Kanes suddenly didn't feel sleepy anymore and asked with great interest.

"Uh... not me, it's to serve the Yasuda family for life."

"Okay, for the Yasuda family...what do you want?"