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During the 1970s the average rate of return on stockholders' equity in the U.S. banking industry was consistently higher than the average rate of return in other U.S. industries, while the opposite was the case in the 1980s. Identify the most important reasons for this.

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During the 1970s the average rate of return on stockholders' equity in the U.S. banking industry was consistently higher than the average rate of return in other U.S. industries, while the opposite was the case in the 1980s. Identify the most important reasons for this.
During the 1970s the average rate of return on stock holders equity in US banking industry was consistently higher than the average rate of return in other US industries. The reason for this was that during the 1970s there was ...

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