During the last tax year you lent money at a nominal rate of 6 percent. Actual inflation was 1 percent, but people had been expecting 1.5 percent . This difference between actual and expected inflation
a. transferred wealth from the borrower to you and caused your after-tax real interest rate to be 0.5 percentage points higher than what you had expected.
b. transferred wealth from the borrower to you and caused your after-tax real interest rate to be more than 0.5 percentage points higher than what you had expected.
c. transferred wealth from you to the borrower and caused your after-tax real interest rate to be 0.5 percentage points lower than what you had expected.
d. transferred wealth from you to the borrower and caused your after-tax real interest rate to be more than 0.5 percentage points lower than what you had expected.
a
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