The Television Network Newscaster Reports That the National Inflation Rate

question 28

Multiple Choice

The television network newscaster reports that the national inflation rate the past year equaled 4 percent. This report would be of particular interest to a ____.

• A) microeconomist.
• B) normative economist.
• C) macroeconomist.
• D) Ceteris paribus.
• E) social science economist.

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