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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 F2 [3 Q! S; E/ O8 T
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 $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.2 p; {5 Y$ D" G2 s1 ?: i" t9 `
) F( W+ D1 A! ]0 o8 o8 t+ e8 j8 ?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!& f% ? G7 C/ a9 W. I
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The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now act as buyer, on his behalf.$ b( {0 x- R7 x- L* u
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In 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.'6 y) v7 ]' j6 B1 N1 O
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The villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.. N4 w, j6 _2 D
Then they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere! Welcome to WALL STREET. |
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