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.
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.

: |# d( p9 d0 [( g" n2 D; v, z' tSoon 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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/ n1 g1 j+ k) t7 b- U2 ?5 G' d* oThe 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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  `. S: z) V1 C* f. o- JIn 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.'

1 ]9 r2 M7 _; U2 aThe villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.
+ k$ {8 A; N) g* f# f& D" \: h, x2 MThen they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeyseverywhere!  Welcome to WALL STREET.