THE CURRENT WORLD FINAnCIAL CRISIS AND ITS EVOLUTION

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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.
2 N0 y6 Z; W5 C; o& JThe 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.

9 f" Q3 o0 d0 ~' F/ a8 ]+ sSoon 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!

5 t- w5 z4 m' B3 E  MThe 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.
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7 I) {& E: b3 X# i! A5 nIn 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.'

$ j* ], b/ g0 d* c2 _4 h. HThe villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.
# X& b4 P9 c' \, IThen they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere!  Welcome to WALL STREET.