THE CURRENT WORLD FINAnCIAL CRISIS AND ITS EVOLUTION

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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.
7 o& R" y" Y6 ]* SThe 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.

% \+ _  ]3 Z4 n: E6 E" hSoon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to $25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
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5 M% v0 m% O* Y, S$ w9 BThe 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.

  {' Y; u  W7 J! t) Q4 z4 X1 WIn 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 $50.'
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, h( S2 ?$ \9 j6 k& y4 F4 c, a# ^& lThe villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.
# N! C- S' j. X& d, K$ g" kThen they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere!  Welcome to WALL STREET.