Gendai Shakai de Otome Game no Akuyaku Reijou wo Suru no wa Chotto Taihen - Ch. 17 - The Trader: Toudou Nagayoshi

[Kaarme]

When Fukushima goes boom and the other nuclear power plants are closed down for inspections, an oil power plant in Japan is worth a lot.

 

[xanon]

All the Russia talk around our Anastasia Runa surely isn't a good thing.

@SSSChair absolutely not.

 

[eng1]

I will accept his bet 2 years ago.
Don't underestimate Russian. That place is not for beginner.

By 2 years ago you mean 2022? The problem is due to the COVID recovery, oil prices went up. Add the sanctions and it went up even more. Add in sales of their oil on Black Markets, their income hasn't gone down that much

They could have face collapse due to currency failing. But they essentially decoupled their currency from the world market

Of course they aren't out of the woods as they are facing quite serious inflation and other issues

 

[cryum]

@SSSChair I mean the memes rolling around about dating "hags" are for 30+, but I dunno how much that reflects reality. Romance is in a funky place, with loud voices in either direction on multiple axes.

 

[Gunlord500]

Random question but was the Hedge Fund thing what started the Great Recession in the US? I thought I heard something like that when I was younger.

 

[SiliconSignatureSwissChair]

Random question but was the Hedge Fund thing what started the Great Recession in the US? I thought I heard something like that when I was younger.

I'm answering this at work so it's not going to be comprehensive, but Mortgages, and it's derivatives, were seen as an alternative store of wealth like gold, and so Funds in general demanded it a lot. Demand led to approval of subprime loans, leading to defaults and the Great Recession. Again, massively oversimplified.

 

[AyluinReymaer]

@SiliconSignatureSwissChair thank you for the chapter!

I believe this is a typo though on page 24.

The first box reads "resuce", but it should be "rescue" I believe.

 

[Saury]

I would note that I did not find Toudou, and his well defined chin with a cheeky grin, hot. 絶対無理!!!

Late to reading this chapter, but as to your concern, "mid-20s OL" is PERFECT if you are thinking of something serious, absolutely not hag. In fact, in my region (Canada), mid-20s folks are usually too young because all the ladies are freaking childish. Then again, in my region, the men in that age group are also very immature. The sad part is that in my culture (Korean), young people nowadays think it's optimal to marry and have kids in their 30s, not realizing that female fertility especially takes a nosedive in the 30s...

 

[chamomileinfusion]

Leaning into commodities trading and oil? I see Runa's taking the Koch Industries approach to business.

 

[ClemCa]

This reminded me of how much I generally dislike lazy foreshadowing. Things like "[...], but she didn't know that yet", "she will learn [...]", "soon, she will see [...]". It works well as a teaser, but it's so easy to do that it gets messy easily. It also trades its advantage in hype value for a loss of surprise. When you do this more than a few times, you end up unable to surprise the reader as they already expect every twist to happen.