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How the stock market really works

By Prieur du Plessis, on February 18th, 2008 posted in: Humor

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How the stock market really works Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

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

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