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According to the NY Fed, ___ than half of workers believe that if they lose their job, they could find another job in the next three months.

According to Greg Mankiw’s speech, “The Fiscal Future,” the debt-to-GDP ratio normally ___ during a recession.

The United States government currently pays approximately ___ of interest expense each year.

In class, Sandy suggested that it was horrible that ___ end up losing their income from a government shutdown and will never get that income back.

In our class about Greg Mankiw’s speech, Sandy argued that Mankiw was understating the tax rate in the US because he was ignoring differences (with other countries) in ___.

David Kelly of JPM discussed five reasons (income effect, wealth effect, price effect, exchange rate effect, and expectations effect) to argue that the economy ___ particularly sensitive to changes in the Fed funds rate.

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 ___.