yeah i remember that $50 an ounce before it blew up on them. 


--- On Sat, 9/27/08, Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: stock market explained
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 8:01 AM
> On Saturday 27 September 2008 01:56:09 ken barber wrote:
> >  It's all clear to me now....
> >
> >  Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and
> announced to the
> > villagers that he would buy wild pigs for $10 each.
> The villagers, seeing
> > that there were many wild pigs around, went into the
> forest and started
> > catching them. The man bought thousands at $10, and as
> supply started to
> > diminish the villagers stopped their effort. He then
> announced that he
> > would now buy wild pigs at $20.
> > This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they
> started catching the
> > pigs again. Soon the supply diminished even further,
> and people started
> > going back to their farms. The offer was increased to
> $25 each and the
> > supply of wild pigs became so scarce that it was an
> effort to even see a
> > pig, let alone catch it! The man now announced that he
> would buy wild pigs
> > at $50!
> > However, since he had to go to the city on some
> business, his assistant
> > would buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man,
> the assistant told
> > the villagers.
> > "Look at all these wild pigs in the big cage that
> the man has 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 of their
> > savings and bought all the wild pigs in the cage. Then
> they never saw the
> > man nor his assistant again, only wild pigs
> everywhere! 
> >
> > Now you have a 
> > better understanding of how the stock market works.
> >
> 
> Sounds more like the commodities market - remember the
> Bunker Hunt brothers 
> trying to corner the silver market - didn't quite work
> out for them!!
> 
> <http://www.silvermonthly.com/182/bunker-hunts-attraction-silver-history-cornering-silver-market/>
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Deri
> 
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