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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 g6 K& p5 K7 \$ j- A9 p7 b
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.0 G+ T% E4 ^. M" w# I7 r2 [+ j
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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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The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now act as buyer, on his behalf.+ d6 Y) j. p+ D6 u
0 H# F' e: T$ [3 o/ }; ^. i% ~/ NIn 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 $50.') |& u) f" y$ s, h$ ^- o
U9 O; u0 ~; K& TThe villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.' R+ Y$ t" u0 Q9 k
Then they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere! Welcome to WALL STREET. |
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