(This is a featured part. One of the later ones. It is also published in its correct sequence.) Many of the richest people in the US felt as if they were in a derelict galleon, on the open sea, being pounded with the ongoing waves of mortgage crash, and dollar crash. Politics was like a never-ending dark night. When they got tired of calculating their losses in mortgage market and the dollar, they took off whatever money they had left, without any more thought. That money went directly to the rising star: Oil options in the futures market. Deals were being done for the next year, the year after, even for the midst of the next decade.