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welcome to stock market - small story
by krish nan on Jan 14, 2008 03:12 PM Permalink
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Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced
to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs10.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around,
went out to the forest and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at Rs10 and as supply started to
diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further
announced that he would now buy at Rs20. This renewed the
efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys
again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started
going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs25
and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an
effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50!
However, since he had to go to the city on some business,
his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
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 Rs35 and when the man
returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs50."
The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and
bought all the monkeys.
Then they never saw the man nor his assistant,
only monkeys everywhere!!!
Welcome to the "Stock" Market!!!!!
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