Chapter 1626 – Flexible Saudi Arabia

“It’s a good idea to dream, you’ve been to Moscow this time, and if you pay a little attention to the Soviet Union, you’ll realize that a lot of things are wrong with the country.”

Alan Wilson asked his wife to sit down, and then began to narrate without prejudice, “For example, is it true that all Soviet suitcases don’t have pulleys? Wherever the Soviets traveled, they carried bulky suitcases, which was a simplification of goods in a planned economy. But in fact this simplification brought about a huge inconvenience.”

How much of an efficiency gain can come from saving a process of installing pulleys? Alan Wilson intuitively believes that it should bring little, but the inconveniences are untold.

From this point of view, although the Soviet Union was quite a bit better than a certain large country in terms of standard of living, but in some material aspects really not as much as the people of a certain large country enjoy more.

In his previous life, he could hear a joke since he was a child that the Soviet Union couldn’t make a hydraulic kettle, and now that he thought about it, it definitely wasn’t that the Soviet Union didn’t have the technical ability to do so, after all, this kind of kettle really wasn’t that hard to make, and the reasonable explanation for this was that it was omitted because of efficiency issues.

In addition to the haphazard simplification of commodities, the Soviet Union also has the big problem is the indiscriminate use of subsidies, obviously over the decades within the territory of the accumulation of a large number of rubles, but also continue to subsidize a variety of food products, has maintained the price of food on the decades ago, that is not a rip-off, is not it?

“This is also the Soviet Union, in exchange for any country so dry for decades time, has long been out of the question.” Alan Wilson said this also could not help but marvel at the vastness of the Soviet Union.

The world called the resource endowed country, there are only a few, of which the Soviet Union is of course that all aspects of the one without short boards, a separate country is certainly crushing the United States, the face of the United States and Canada also do not fall down, coupled with Australia on the effort.

Anyway, the latter’s explorable resources value above, Russia is far away from the United States, not to mention the Soviet Union than Russia is also five million square kilometers.

“The Soviet side is taking this annual meeting very seriously and, predictably, British investment is welcome.”

Pamela Mountbatten clearly agrees that the Soviet Union is vast, in fact the vast majority of people in this world, should agree with this, with such vast resources, who would think that such a country would fall on its face.

But this does not include Alan Wilson, what countries can not be unlimited overdraft, face contemptuous, “the Soviets might as well think about how to start the real estate economy, which is more than the other countries to invest how much is useful, I’m not kidding.”

In any country, the flow of money compared to the goods that exist in society, are far beyond, even the United States, all Americans at the same time to choose to spend, strong as the city at the top of the mountain can not find the corresponding goods to cope with this consumption, it will be the same will explode, in the result is not necessarily than the Soviet Union’s downfall is strong, maybe even worse.

Currencies are not currencies at that point, not to mention that you’re a sovereign dollar, even Bretton Woods dollars won’t help, as big as the dream is, the devaluation is as big as the dream is.

The USSR certainly had a bit more of a problem with this than the US, which had a lot more access to spending money than the USSR, free college in the USSR and loans for college in the US. Most of the medical programs and common medicines are free, the United States get sick once to get it wrong on the class fall.

In the Soviet Union banking system in the amount of rubles, must find a channel to digest, do not have to look for other examples, although this example is not more positive, that is, at this time has been the bubble rise of Japan.

Japan then chose the stock market housing market go hand in hand, and even have a Tokyo can buy the entire United States of America’s real estate Xingbang.

A big country although decades later housing market is also very arrogant, but honestly and Japan can not be compared, because the twenty-first century the United States real estate market than a big country. How can it be compared to the 1980s when a Tokyo leveled the entire US? Really take the bubble economy not seriously?

The Soviet Union is absolutely in a position to implement the real estate boom, the Khrushchev building built during the Khrushchev period is itself a stopgap measure to solve the problem of just whether there is.

At that time, it was already set to build a better one twenty or thirty years later, and Maphead was able to solve the Soviet Union’s problem by simply flipping through Khrushchev’s speeches at the time, and consuming the rubles that had been absorbed over the decades with a more conscientious house.

The Soviets ran out of money, naturally, and not on the hands of a large amount of cash to buy things can not be mentally imbalanced, in the savings waiting to consume, how must not wait for a decade or eight years?

The Soviet Union’s land is also nationalized, and ultimately set out how much the sale price, but not the leadership of the final sentence of the matter, in all fairness, the success rate is very large. Real estate can also be driven, home appliances, steel, cement, a multitude of industries demand rise, Japan’s population of more than 100 million people can play five years, how the Soviet Union can also play a decade.

The U.S. President, even if re-elected, but only eight years, ten years later, it is not likely to change up a not so head iron, can not be expected to generation of presidents are Reagan, right? Maybe it’ll be Zipton.

Pamela Mountbatten tugged at her husband’s cheek, “Can’t this work for Britain? There isn’t any way you can use it on your own country.”

“I can’t, because it’s been used a long time ago. Some Soviet difficulties are not difficulties for us, but ours are difficulties that the Soviets have probably never touched either.” Alan Wilson shrugged, “The British land is not state-owned, completely market inverted industry, with this approach is certainly not as effective as countries with state-owned land.”

Alan Wilson warmly received the return of the richest woman, and then in Whitehall for personnel on the inspection, looking at his age has been very close to retirement, there is always some arrangements to be made.

However, it is certain that the supreme authority will certainly delay the retirement, Norman Brooke was physically and mentally exhausted, did not make even a little effort to delay the retirement above, that counts on people’s high morale, does not mean that he also want to follow suit.

Not only will not follow the example, but also to carry out some personnel arrangements, to ensure that even if it is really retired, but also to remote control of the affairs of the Whitehall.

To know the loyal can not do, can do not loyal, this is a lot of people in power to face the problem, at present Alan Wilson hands of good candidates are not much, but fortunately there is still enough time to slowly examine.

First of all, the immediate thing to do, Burke Trend, John Hunt hands of two British foundations, can be said to be in charge of at least part of the Commonwealth’s money bags, now the yen appreciation trend is obvious, from the national interest, Britain is optimistic about Japan’s future development is not excessive?

Have been hinted at so obvious, Burke Trend, John Hunt two gentlemen certainly do not think it is too much, what is too much to do investment, and do not have to hide anything, go directly to Japan on the line.

Anyway, the yen is a freely convertible currency, in the Jamaica meeting, the three European powers joined forces to strangle the yen’s share of the settlement, but can not be a little bit of good not to give, in the freely convertible currency or nod.

If the yen is controlled currency, not to mention what will happen to Britain, the United States of America’s capital does not dare to enter the Japanese domestic, in case the Japanese blocked how to do? In how powerful international capital, and the power of the state is still small compared.

Why Soros can short the British pound? Because the pound is also a freely convertible currency.

“But it’s the Prime Minister’s approval that counts.” Burke Trench, John Hunt two is agreed, but this matter Mrs. Thatcher must know, Whitehall has not had the power to cross the cabinet to act on their own, in how to say that Britain also has a government.

“I’ll speak to the Prime Minister.” Alan Wilson confidently assured, “In fact, this trend is already very obvious, the Prime Minister believes that it will not be stopped.”

Although Margaret Thatcher was now a war hero, defending the interests of the British Empire’s high approval ratings Prime Minister, the Cabinet Secretary still had some certainty that she would take the Prime Minister on a rocket ride if she dared to disagree!

Cabinet Secretary General from time to time on the display of the despicable desire, has been felt by Mrs. Thatcher, she has been reminding herself to keep the distance, can not let this man old dreams revisited.

Every time the Cabinet Secretary was allowed to return without success, Mrs. Thatcher felt as if she had done justice to herself when she was the chairman of the campus Conservative Party.

The prime minister which knows, to the supreme authority of the self-proclaimed Allen Wilson, but and many acting actresses have acted opposite people, especially good at pinpointing this kind of love but not the role, with age, more need to make up for the acting, but this matter Mrs. Thatcher still have to agree.

Plaza agreement Britain also has a five percent share of the sell-off, it is right that all should be purchased in Japanese yen, in addition to the purchase of some yen from the two foundations, to make up for the loss of this year’s strike in the United Kingdom, is this excessive?

Alan Wilson thinks not too much, after his persuasion, Mrs. Thatcher also think not too much.

While the discussion was going on, there were very subtle changes in other parts of the world, such as a certain big country, which welcomed a group of guests with headscarves. Saudi Arabia on the surface and a major country’s relationship is very general, atheist countries, and Saudi Arabia has always seemed out of place.

But it also has to be divided into what is the issue, take the issue of strategic missiles, apparently Saudi Arabia also has a country in the moral level of flexibility. With full of sincerity to come to the imperial capital to test. Of course secrecy is important to hide it from other countries, especially the United States.

Saudi Arabia had also pinned its hopes on the United States, but the United States was not willing to sell even a hundred and fifty kilometers of tactical missiles to the Saudis, too insincere, then there was no point in talking.

As the largest exporter of oil, Saudi Arabia has the most cash in hand, in the field of cash, Saudi Arabia can even hang Japan to hammer, and this time period of a certain big country is very short of foreign exchange, in order to find foreign exchange that can sustain foreign trade, the eyes are green.