Once upon a time a man appeared in a village 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. The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. 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 scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the USA on some business, his assistant would 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 already 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 all their savings and bought all the monkeys for $700 billion.
Strange as it may seem they never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!
Now you have a better understanding of how the bailout plan will work.
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Phenomenal!! The story– not the bailout.
clever! read it to my DH and he got a good giggle too!
Well said!!!!! Best explantion and very simple. Just wish the bail out was that easy. How many of us are going to rush out and get those construction jobs that are being offered!!!!??!! So you think we have to be qualified?