What Is NOT a Contributing Factor to the Economic Downturn

question 76

Multiple Choice

What is NOT a contributing factor to the economic downturn of 2009?

• A) It is the end of a 40-year growth cycle in the stock market.
• B) It was the peak of a 30-year commodity cycles.
• C) Peak oil prices and real estate prices collided with a downturn in the stock market.
• D) The spending wave of the baby boomers came to an end.
• E) failure of Americans to innovate after the tech boom of the 1990s

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