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FFIs AND THE MONKEYS


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!!!





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