Ferrari Mailing List: Don't monkey with the market [NFC]

[Charles Perry (charles]

A lighter look at our economic "bailout" given our recent financial
discussions: 

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the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
limits.
 
  
Once upon a time in a place overrun with monkeys, 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. The man bought thousands at $10 and
as
 supply started to diminish, they became harder to catch, so the
villagers
 stopped their effort.
 
The man then announced that he would now pay $20 for each one. This 
renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys 
again. But soon the supply diminished even further and they were ever 
harder to catch, so people started going back to their farms and forgot 
about monkey catching.
 
The man increased his price to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became
so
 sparse that it was an effort to even see a monkey, much less catch one
.
 
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys for $50! However, since
he had
 to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his
behalf.
 
While the man was away the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all 
these monkeys in the big cage that the man has bought. I will sell them
to you
 at $35 each 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.
 
They never saw the man nor his assistant again and once again there were

monkeys everywhere.
 
Now you have a better understanding of how the economic rescue plan
works!