Inikah "bubble economy"? Ekonomi kapitalis a la Lehman Bros?






The Stock Market





The Stock Market simply illustrated ... Is there a lesson here?


Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers
that he would buy monkeys for Rp10.000


The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the
forest and started catching them.


The man bought thousands at Rp10.000 and as supply started to diminish, the
villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy
at Rp20.000.


This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys
again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back
to their farms.


The offer rate increased to Rp25.000 and the supply of monkeys became so
little that it was an effort to even see a monkey let alone catch it.


The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rp50.000! However, since
he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on
behalf of him.


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 Rp35.000 and when the man returns from the city , you can sell it
to him for Rp50.000"


The villagers squeezed up with all their savings to buy the monkeys.


Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!!

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