What Accounted for the Tremendous Rise in the Profits of the American

question 67

Multiple Choice

What accounted for the tremendous rise in the profits of the American financial industry,from less than 10 percent of total business profits in the 1950s to more than 40 percent in the 1990s?

• A) China's demand for capital
• B) The growing housing market
• C) Financial deregulation
• D) Computers and communications technology

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