It is important to distinguish investment expenditures from consumption expenditures because

A) households invest and business firms consume.
B) foreign firms invest and domestic firms consume
C) investment, not consumption, increases the natural real GDP.
D) consumption, not investment, increases natural real GDP.

C

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Inflation costs are minimized under which inflation rate?

a. -20 percent b. 5 percent c. 15 percent d. 575 percent

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