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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.3 ]' j( G8 E9 n! Q* B5 C' z
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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. T; D0 |7 s/ H; H# m9 uSoon 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!: p* W9 u5 y% v+ o) C4 {4 P) h
4 L- r6 E5 n9 }% r* R: |The 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.3 ]4 N* S8 L3 Z
2 z8 X8 L2 d3 \1 S: ?4 TIn 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 $50.'" }* X$ X$ ? s1 x
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The villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.# x D$ ?9 E3 _8 x
Then they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere! Welcome to WALL STREET. |
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