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Once upon a time in a village in India, a manannounced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10. The villagers seeing there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.# m3 D( x' O' \/ x* Z6 L
The man bought thousands at $10, but, as the supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their efforts.The man further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
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Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to $25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
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0 Y1 W! s& d& I, lThe man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now act as buyer, on his behalf. ^1 M* r/ Z4 O4 L
) ?5 j5 v& a* Y* V) D) UIn the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: 'Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at$35 and when he returns from the city, you can sell them back to him for $50.'; \5 g2 o- s# G5 k3 ~
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The villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.* ^9 g8 Z8 f2 I- y+ X9 J( I
Then they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere! Welcome to WALL STREET. |
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