Social Security transfers wealth from younger generations to older generations

For inflation to have no real effect on the economy, leaving all decisions and their real outcomes unchanged, five conditions must be met. Which of the following incorrectly states one of those conditions?

A) Inflation is universally and accurately anticipated. B) All savings and money earn the nominal interest rate. C) Inflation of p0 percent lowers the nominal interest rate by p0 below the no-inflation nominal rate. D) Only real interest income is taxable and only the real cost of borrowing is tax-deductible. E) Inflation raises the prices of all goods by the same percentage.

In 1936, John Maynard Keynes published a book, The General Theory, which attempted to explain

a. stagflation. b. the classical dichotomy. c. short-run economic fluctuations. d. how changes in the money supply had created the Great Depression.