Standard & Poors, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America-all of these companies continue to pay their top executives huge bonuses. It must be the case that every American company pays its top executives huge bonuses.
A) No fallacy.
B) False cause.
C) Hasty generalization.
D) Composition.
E) Accident.

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This is a hasty generalization because the author is assuming that all American companies pay their top executives huge bonuses based on a limited sample of companies. The author should investigate more companies before making such a broad claim.