The consumer price index measures:
a. the cost of all goods and services produced in the U.S. economy
b. the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output.
c. the cost of a fixed market basket of consumer goods and services produced in the U.S. economy.
d. the ratio of an economy's nominal GDP to its real GDP.
e. the income distribution of an economy.
c
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If a hurricane were to wipe out the majority of the eastern seaboard in the United States:
A. neither the short-run nor long-run aggregate supply curves would be affected. B. only the long-run aggregate supply curve would shift left. C. only the short-run aggregate supply curve would shift left. D. the long-run and short-run aggregate supply curves would both shift left.
The economy pictured in the figure below has a(n) ________ gap with a short-run equilibrium combination of inflation and output indicated by point ________. 
A. recessionary; B B. recessionary; C C. recessionary; A D. expansionary; A