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    Default How It All Works

    Once upon a time in a small village, 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 into the forest and started catching them. The man
    bought thousands at $10 and the supply started to dwindle
    and the villagers stopped their efforts.

    The man mow announced he would buy monkeys at $20 each
    so the villagers started catching monkeys again.

    Soon the supply dwindled further and the villagers started
    going back to their farms as it became harder and harder to
    find a monkey.

    The man now announced he would buy monkeys at $50 each
    but as the man had to go to the city 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 collected. 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 or his assistent again!

    You now have a better understanding of how the stock
    exchange works.

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    And the LABOR Party
    Androgens Order
    Forgive your enemies, but never, ever forget their names.
    The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but never forget.

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    Don't forget it was the Liberal Party (Tory's) who invented it
    Regards, Bob Thomas

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    Billionaire's sponsor both parties Labor Prime Minister Rudd lives with one has spent years benefiting from Liberals hand outs to his wife's Business and still does through hand outs to her OS corrporation.

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    You forgot the other bit of the story, where before he goes to the village (I'll call that village A), he goes to the village next door (B, who are in a permanent state of conflict with their neighbors) and bets them that he can get the A villagers to buy the local monkeys of him for $25. The B villagers knowing how the monkeys are worthless and a nuisance , and just how tightfisted their enemies agree. Before that he goes to another village (C) and bets them he can get $25 out of villagers B without buying and selling them anything etc

    Is that futures or ?????

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    I did read each thread above.

    It all sounds like "monkey business" to me.

    Allan

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    I once stole a calendar - and got 12 months.

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    At least you didn't go ape Allan,
    Regards, Bob Thomas

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