You invested $5000 of your own money and borrowed $5000 from your broker to purchase shares of a company trading at a share price of $2. you paid 10% interest on your borrowed money for one year. you sold the stock one year later for $1.40. how much money in total did you lose on this transaction including the interest you paid?

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.