Shamokin manufacturing produces two products, big and bigger. shamokin expects to sell 10,000 units of product bigger and to have an inventory of 2,000 units of bigger on hand at the end of the period. currently, shamokin has 800 units of bigger on hand. bigger requires two labor operations, molding and polishing. each unit of bigger requires one hour of molding and two hours of polishing. the direct labor rate for molding is $20 per molding hour and the direct labor rate for polishing is $25 per polishing hour. the expected number of hours of direct labor for bigger is: group of answer choices

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.