The correct answer is unchecked business practices.
In the mid-2000s, problems with corporations as such as Enron, Worldcom, and Tyco demonstrated a renewed and growing public concern with unchecked business practices.
In the mid-2000s, financial scandals shocked the United States. Companies such as Worldcom, Tyco, and Enron were found guilty of financial statement fraud. Their accounting and financial report was fraudulent. Before these incidents, people never suspected of wrongdoings in financial filling processes. But the lack of ethics showed by the hierarchy of those companies demonstrated a renewed and growing public concern with unchecked business practices.