The spectacular continual rise in stock market prices reflected
a. rapidly increasing corporate profits.
b. rapidly expanding productive capacity.
c. declining corporate profits.
d. an expectation that stock prices would rise even higher based on the operation of “the greater fool” principle.
e. all of these choices.
ANS: D
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