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Animals hoping to make an easy profit on a price bubble find out what happens when supply catches up to demand.
After Arlene the giant tortoise walks down the aisle wearing a crown of daisies, everyone wants some of the beautiful blooms for themselves. Florists sell out quickly, but Sly Seal has a daisy stash that allows him to drive up the price. Soon his customers start buying flowers from each other at even higher markups, hoping to sell them...
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Rock and Brock may be twins, but they are as different as two twins can be. One day, their grandpa offers them a plan-for ten straight weeks on Saturday he will give them each one dollar. But there is a catch! "Listen now, for here's the trick, each buck you save, I'll match it quick. But spend it, there's no extra dough, so save your cash, and watch it grow." Rock is excited-there are all sorts of things he can buy for one dollar! So each week he...
4) Shark Scam
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Whitey and Cahoots, two sharks, convince giant tortoise Arlene to invest in their sure-fire, money-making scheme. Arlene takes the bait. So do all her friends, and they discover the hard way what a Ponzi scheme is.
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The Nelly Longhair doll is on sale at Murphy's Toys for ten dollars. But, Isabel has only fifty cents. Isabel decides to start a car wash business, she's sure she can make money. But, at the hardware store she learns that her supplies will cost five dollars! If five of her friends will invest one dollar each, she'll have enough. Will Isabel be able to pay them back and have enough left over for the Nelly doll?
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Princess Persephone wants to travel somewhere warm and sunny in a shiny new spaceship. But her father won't give her the money she needs for her dream vacation. Persephone comes up with a great idea to earn cash: dragon rides! Learn the ups and downs of entrepreneurship in this amusing story about working hard and spending wisely.
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Princess Persephone means well when she orders the Money Wizards to conjure more cash for the people of Ganymede, but the result is the opposite of what she wants or expects.
Princess Persephone wants her friends to come along on the summer vacation of her dreams, but they can't afford tickets. No problem! She can just tell Ganymede's Money Wizards to print more bills. Though a wizard explains that doing so could lead to price hikes, Persephone insists....
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Princess Persephone was cold in her castle on freezing Ganymede. So, when Aluminum Jim came calling to sell her tin sheets to nail onto the exterior walls to keep out the cold, Persephone was only too happy to agree to a loan, and sign the contract without reading it. What could she do when the tin sheets didn't work, she couldn't repay the loan, and Jim claimed the castle?
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