A Potato Chips factory produces 60,000 potato chips each week and decided to buy an expensive machine for RM 13,000 equipment to increase output, with an operating life of 5 years for the new machine. It would reduce labor costs to RM 11,000 per year. Will it be a good decision to consider purchasing this equipment? The existing machines productivity is RM 195 per potato packet.

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.