When you first started your new business, you were so excited about the large volume of orders you had. one year later, you find that your orders are less than half of what they were in the beginning. what is the most probably cause of this decrease in order? a. you failed to continue your marketing efforts. b. your price is too high for the market. c. you have too much competition. d. you've limited yourself to a small number of products.

The former chairman of the federal reserve, alan greenspan, used the term "irrational exuberance" in 1996 to describe the high levels of optimism among stock market investors at the time. stock market indexes such as the s& p composite price index were at an all-time high. some commentators believed that the fed should intervene to slow the expansion of the economy. why would central banks want to clamp down when the economy is growing? a. to block the formation of unsustainable speculative asset bubbles. b. to curtail excessive profits in the banking system. c. to prevent inflationary forces from gathering momentum. d. all of the above. e. a and c only.