An attempt: Adam sees a gold nugget on his property. He decides that rather than preserving plums like he normally does this time of year he will start a busin

An attempt: Adam sees a gold nugget on his property. He decides that rather than preserving plums like he normally does this time of year he will start a business mining gold. He takes out a loan from Bob at a high interest rate. He hires Charlie who previously worked as a tailor, and Dick who was unemployed. Anticipating future riches Adam, Bob, Charlie and Dick all start spending more money. Evan the innkeeper has to cook more and fancier food for them. He works longer hours and builds up some savings, thinking that he will spend it on fine gold jewelry from Adam later. The mining effort finds absolutely nothing. Adam has neither gold nor plums and defaults on his debt to Bob. He lays off Charlie and Dick. For Evan business goes back to normal, he has money but the jewelry he wanted to buy doesn't exist. Eventually Adam starts preserving plums again and Charlie goes back to tailoring.