Economic question

          In the late 1990s, the stock prices of many companies were unusually high. These often-inflated stock prices meant high purchase prices for many business acquisitions and, in many cases, incredibly high values allocated to goodwill....

Economic question

Bottled water, consisting of still and sparkling unflavored and flavored waters, is a hot industry-sales grew by 8.8 percent between 2001 and 2006 and are expected to grow another 48.5 percent by 2011. The bottled water industry in the United States totaled 31.4...