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Since memories of recent events tend to be far more accessible, during a prolonged economic upswing investors often ________ plausible scenarios forecasting a recession.
Title
Recent Economic Memories
Your Result
Correct
Difficulty
Hard
Your Pace
0:01
Others' Pace
0:44
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“Recent events…accessible” indicates that we are far more likely to remember recent events. “A prolonged economic upswing” suggests that investors remember mostly strong economic times and are therefore not as likely to credit forecasts of recessions. (B) discount matches this logic.
(A) is the opposite of what the sentence is looking for since investors are less likely to endorse predictions of an economic downturn.
(B) the answer.
(C) Since the investors are more swayed by recent memories, which are positive, they will be less likely to predict an economic downturn.
(D) The might discuss such scenarios, but that they “often do” doesn’t mesh with the fact that investors are focusing more on the recent, positive memories.
(E) The same logic that applies to (C) applies to this answer.
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