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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.; \4 c" z7 R0 ~1 }
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 $25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!5 T7 V# v" j" j9 N% H8 K
6 l5 d+ Q& B$ U; d; P8 uThe man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now act as buyer, on his behalf., G s+ t# w! R! w" \* J t
# G. S H! j$ R% }# i9 ]' s. DIn 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 $50.'; ^ t4 D* \4 l- e7 ^+ d2 k" Z
' D9 w {5 u l9 m4 h! \9 sThe villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.( ]# o f$ k& y; ^2 M9 I6 [/ @* J
Then they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere! Welcome to WALL STREET. |
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