In a market economy, what provides potential investors with reliable information about the financial performance of a firm?

Society might argue that there are cases in which it is appropriate to resist price increases in situations where scarcity is serious. Included would be the case of

a. unrestrained monopoly that would otherwise succeed in gouging the public. b. taxes imposed on products capriciously and inappropriately. c. rising prices falling so heavily on the poor that rationing becomes preferable. d. All of the above are correct.

Compared to the level of real GDP per person in 1870, by 2010, real GDP in the U.S was ________ times larger, while real GDP per person in Japan was ________.

A. 12; 30 times larger B. 12; smaller C. 30; 12 times larger D. 12; 12 times larger