How The Finance Market Works...

The wealthy financier was sitting in his study when his eldest son came to him.

"Dad," the boy stammered, "I got a girl in trouble and she wants two thousand dollars to keep quiet about it." The father reluctantly wrote a check for the amount but just as he finished signing it, his second son burst in with the same bad news, only this time the amount requested was three thousand dollars.

While he was writing the second check, his youngest daughter appeared at the door of the study, weeping.

"Daddy," she sobbed uncontrollably, "I think I'm pregnant."

"Aha!" the financier exclaimed gratefully. "Now we collect!"