Americans Viewed the 12 Percent Mortgage Interest Rates of the 1980s

question 115

Multiple Choice

Americans viewed the 12 percent mortgage interest rates of the 1980s as exorbitantly high while they considered the 7 percent mortgage interest rates of the late 1990s as reasonable.This represents a confusion of

• A)actual and expected inflation.
• B)real versus nominal inflation.
• C)real versus expected mortgage payments.
• D)real versus nominal interest rates.

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