A greasy dirty yet such a simple game when it real comes down to it! The rich always find a way to get richer! If nothing else no matter what this needs to change, as investors we MUST fight for our rights. This little analogy kinda sums up the Markets in general IMO of course.

Once

upon a time, in a place overrun with monkeys, 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 to the

forest,

and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply

started

to diminish, they became harder to catch, so the villagers stopped their

effort.

The man

then announced that he would now pay $20 for each one. This renewed the

efforts

of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. But soon the

supply

diminished even further and they were ever harder to catch, so people

started

going back to their farms and forgot about monkey catching. The man

increased

his price to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce that it was

an

effort to even see a monkey, much less catch one.

The man

now announced that he would buy monkeys for $50! However, since he had to go

to

the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his

behalf.

While

the man was away the assistant told the villagers. 'Look at all these

monkeys in

the big cage that the man has bought. 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 nor his assistant again and once more there were monkeys

everywhere.

Now do

you understand why and how the stock market works?

Newman AKA Greentolduso.