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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.
1 y' x3 H6 B- a0 e. P- pThe 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.( M8 u! M% a4 q7 B% X* p/ F
& b6 @( l) [& g' G9 H9 ~: x8 iSoon 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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6 {5 ?, U8 K) q! a' @2 W KThe 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.
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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 $50.': r# t5 q8 ^3 G2 _3 J
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The villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.
! O) ?" d/ d/ o$ kThen they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere! Welcome to WALL STREET. |
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