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.
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.

2 n0 I1 s1 G; s. D0 Y4 z& P7 ~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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# S4 J/ S4 K- pThe 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.

* L. ]  i6 N# s7 BIn 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.'

8 C4 d8 Y* `1 h; g% N! ~/ RThe villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.
" H- m! g6 v3 h5 b' A) X9 e0 W; pThen they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere!  Welcome to WALL STREET.