Go to the St. Louis Federal Reserve FRED database, and find data on the personal consumption expenditure
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a. Calculate the change in the inflation rate over the four most recent quarters of data available, and the four quarters prior to that.
b. Calculate the changes in net wages above productivity, the price of oil, and inflation expectations over the four most recent quarters of data available, and the four quarters prior to that.
c. Are your results consistent with what you would expect? How do your answers to part (b) help explain, if at all, your answer to part (a)? Explain using the short-run aggregate supply curve.
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The Economics of Money Banking and Financial Markets
ISBN: 978-0133836790
11th edition
Authors: Frederic S. Mishkin
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