In the Debate Between Gerald Sirkin and Eugene White Over

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Multiple Choice

In the debate between Gerald Sirkin and Eugene White over the causes of the Stock Market Boom in the late 1920s, Sirkin maintains that prices of shares were ____, while White maintains that prices of shares were ____.

• A) not too high because investors assumed that the current rate of growth of dividends would continue; too high because prices had risen much more rapidly than dividends.
• B) too high because prices had risen much more rapidly than dividends; not too high because investors assumed that the current rate of growth of dividends would continue.
• C) not too high because interest rates were extremely low in the late 1920s; too high because interest rates were extremely high in the late 1920s.
• D) too high because interest rates were extremely high in the late 1920s; not too high because interest rates were extremely low in the late 1920s.

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