> > Once upon a time in a village, a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs 10.
> > The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them..
> > The man bought thousands at Rs 10 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 Rs 25 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 Rs 50!
> > 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 Rs 35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs 50."
> > 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'
Too funny...!
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Re: Too funny...!
Rohiniranjan wrote:> > Once upon a time in a village, a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs 10.
> > The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them..
> > The man bought thousands at Rs 10 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 Rs 25 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 Rs 50!
> > 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 Rs 35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs 50."
> > 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'
Nice one, Dada. :smt003
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