Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for £10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them to sell to the man.
The man bought thousands at £10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers reduced their efforts. As a result of this, the man further announced that he would now buy monkeys at £20. 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 increased to £25 each 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 £50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his behalf.
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 the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for £50 each.'
The villagers rounded up with all their savings, some even borrowed heavily, and bought all the monkeys in the cage to sell back to the man at £50.
Then they never saw the man, nor his assistant ever again, just lots of monkeys everywhere!
Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works!!! The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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