Union Contracts with Built-In Cost-Of-Living Adjustments and Home Mortgages That

question 31

Multiple Choice

Union contracts with built-in cost-of-living adjustments and home mortgages that vary with the rate of inflation are:

• A) inappropriate ways of combating inflation.
• B) examples of bracket creep.
• C) means of implementing fiscal policy.
• D) steps that can be taken to decrease the adverse impacts of inflation.
• E) examples of failed discarded policies of the 1970s.

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