If you do me well, the price goes down. If you do me poorly, the seller wears a frown. I’m common in markets but rare in the mall. What am I?

I can be baked but I'm not bread. When I'm hot, people want to get rid of me. I'm a component in chip manufacturing but I'm not silicon. When there are many of me that are small, we're insignificant. When people sit on a couch, they can become a kind of me.

If you get a call to ask if it's running, you'd better go catch it!

, justice and the american way, or so they say anyway.

Born of earth, tempered by fire, I rest within a wooden shell. I whisper thoughts I do not know, leaving marks where minds once dwell. The more I’m honed, the less I last yet greater still the work I cast.