If a marginal cost pricing rule is imposed on the firm in the figure above, the deadweight loss will be

You borrow money to buy a house in 2009 at a fixed interest rate of 5.5 percent. By 2012, the inflation rate has steadily fallen to 1.5 percent from the recent high of 3.0 percent in 2009

Considering only your mortgage, is inflation good news or bad news for you? A) bad news, because it makes the nominal value of your mortgage payments increase B) bad news, because it makes the real value of your mortgage payments increase C) good news, because it makes the real value of your mortgage payments decrease D) bad news, because inflation hurts everyone

Because the Fed determines the money supply, the money supply curve is:

A. upward-sloping. B. vertical. C. horizontal. D. downward-sloping.