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Once upon a time in a village in India, a manannounced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10. The villagers seeing there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them." a$ L8 Y! m- _- p( {$ _, ~( Q
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.- W8 ]/ D6 r+ D
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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!
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' K& S, H# i4 e7 _# eThe 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.; B4 j0 w6 w8 Z" o' I- L% Z8 ^
2 E8 S, j: T7 A8 [8 d& 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 $50.'' d. Y8 ^( m4 @# r& M! ^
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The villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.+ ~5 @9 R4 U0 d$ |$ C/ p0 ~* O
Then they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere! Welcome to WALL STREET. |
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