Solution to the crisis -- great one !!

It is August. In a small town on the South Coast of France, holiday season is in full swing, but it is raining so there is not too much business happening.

Everyone is heavily in debt. Luckily, a rich Russian tourist arrives in the foyer of the small local hotel.

He asks for a room and puts a Euro100 note on the reception counter, takes a key and goes to inspect the room located up the stairs on the third floor.

The hotel owner takes the banknote in a hurry and rushes to his meat supplier to whom he owes E100.

The butcher takes the money and races to his supplier to pay his debt.

The wholesaler rushes to the farmer to pay Euro 100 for pigs he purchased some time ago.

The farmer triumphantly gives the Euro 100 note to a local prostitute who gave him her services on credit.

The prostitute goes quickly to the hotel, as she was owing the hotel for her hourly room use to entertain clients.

At that moment, the rich Russian is coming down to reception and informs the hotel owner that the proposed room is unsatisfactory and takes his Euro 100 back and departs.

There was no profit or income.

But everyone no longer has any debt and the small town's people look optimistically towards their future.


COULD THIS BE THE SOLUTION TO THE Global Financial Crisis?

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The debts are are circular in nature. If the hotel owner enforces his right towards the debts owed to him by the prostitute, that prostitute enforces her right and so on, ultimately it is the hotel owner himself who would be liable to pay his own debt.

Therefore there is no debt in real sense.

good one

I think this is a really good one

nice one

thanks for sharing

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