Monkey Business

I came across this today and thought others here would appreciate it. A friend just shared with me this stock market story 😁 A lot of monkeys live near a village.🐒 One day a merchant came to the village to buy these monkeys!🐵 He announced that he will buy the monkeys @ $100 each. 🙊 The villagers thought that this man is mad. They thought how can somebody buy stray monkeys at $100 each? Still, some people caught some monkeys and gave it to this merchant and he gave $100 for each monkey.  This news spread like wildfire and people caught monkeys and sold it to the merchant. After a few days, the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys @ 200 each. 😉 The lazy villagers also ran around to catch the remaining monkeys!🐒 They sold the remaining monkeys @ 200 each.🐒 Then the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys @ 500 each!😮 The villagers start to lose sleep! ... They caught six or seven monkeys, which was all that was left and got 500 each.🙊 The villagers were waiting anxiously for the next announcement.😉 Then the merchant announced that he is going home for a week. And when he returns, he will buy monkeys @ 1000 each!😉 He asked his employee to take care of the monkeys he bought. He was alone taking care of all the monkeys in a cage.🐒 The merchant went home.😉 The villagers were very sad as there were no more monkeys left for them to sell at $1000 each.☹️ Then the employee told them that he will sell some monkeys @ 700 each secretly. 😉 This news spread like wild fire. Since the merchant buys monkeys @ 1000 each, there is a 300 profit for each monkey. 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 big lots. The poor borrowed money from money lenders and also bought monkeys! 🙊 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 too !😉 The villagers then realised that they have bought the useless stray monkeys @ 700 each and unable to sell them! 😩 It made a lot of people bankrupt and a few people filthy rich in this monkey business. 🐒😉😅