Related to the Economics in Practice on P

question 27

Multiple Choice

Related to the Economics in Practice on p.656: Surveys by the bank of England suggest that consumers tend to expect future inflation to be

• A)what they perceive past inflation to have been.
• B)equal to the actual estimates of past inflation made by the government.
• C)directly related to the interest rate.
• D)relatively unpredictable.

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