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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