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In Powell’s press conference (at the end of the FOMC meeting), Powell said that when inflation is high and the labor market is weakening, it’s not surprising that the dispersion among FOMC participants’ forecasts would be ___.

If the labor market is tight (meaning that there is a shortage of workers), we normally expect ___ to experience larger pay raises than ___.

If we calculate an inflation rate after excluding the 18% of items that increased by the greatest percentage and we also exclude the 18% of items that decreased by the greatest percentage, the result will be called a ___ inflation rate.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin is a ___ donor. He wrote an op-ed piece recently (with Chicago Prof. Kashyap) encouraging Pres. Trump to ___.

Last year, the percentage of homebuyers that were first-time buyers ___ when compared to 2023.

As a result of the changes in immigration, the breakeven employment growth number has ___ in the past year.

In normal times (when the economy is not in recession), we would expect ___ unemployment to be higher than ___ unemployment.

According to “Americans are Getting Priced Out,” many homeowners are unwilling to sell their home because ___.

Which of the following is the highest number?

Imagine that Japanese government bond yields moved significantly higher. This would be ___ for US bond prices.