Monkey Business

There were lot of monkeys in a village.

One day a merchant came to that village to buy these monkeys.

He announced that he will buy a monkey @  hundred rupees each.

The villagers thought that this man is mad. They thought  , how can somebody buy stray monkeys. Does anybody give 100 rupees for these useless monkeys? 

Still,  some people caught some monkeys and gave it to this merchant and he gave 100 rupees for each monkey.

This news spread like anything and people caught monkeys and sold it to the monkey merchant.

After some days he announced that he will buy monkeys @ 200 each.

The lazy villagers ran around to catch the remaining monkeys

They sold the remaining monkeys @200 each.

Then the merchant announced that he buys monkeys @500 each.

The villagers lost sleep. They

Caught six or seven monkeys ,which were left and got 500 each...

The villagers were waiting anxiously for the next announcement.

Then the merchant announced that he is going home for one week

And when he returns. he will buy monkeys @ 1000 each...

He asked his employee to take care of the monkeys.

He was alone taking care of all the monkeys in a cage.

The merchant went home ...

The villagers were very sad that .There were no monkeys left for them to sell it at 1000 rupees.

Then his employee told them that he will give some monkeys @700 each secretly.

This news also flashed like fire ,since the merchant buy monkey @ 1000 each.300 profit for one monkey...

LADDU broke on villagers head...

The next day villagers made a queue near the monkey cage

The employee sold all the monkeys at 700 each

The rich bought monkeys in lot. The poor also borrowed money from financiers and bought monkeys.

He sold all the monkeys @ 700 rupees .

The villagers took care of their monkeys & waited for the merchant to return.

But nobody came...

Then they ran to the employee. ...

But he has already left.

Then the villagers realized

That they have bought the useless & stray monkeys @ 700 each

This is the business, now we Call STOCK MARKET

This business has made lot of peoples bankrupt & very little people millionaires in this monkey business.