The Public's View of the Cost of Inflation Seems to Be

question 19

Multiple Choice

The public's view of the cost of inflation seems to be based on

• A) inflation's undesirable and random influence on a unit of measure.
• B) inflation's unfair and random identification of winners and losers.
• C) inflation's ability to unfairly distort tax burdens.
• D) a myopic focus on price inflation without noting that incomes rise to compensate.
• E) all of the above but b.

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