Unemployment and inflation
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We finished up unemployment and covered sticky wages, changes to the unemployment rate, types of unemployment, unemployment and the Great Recession, government policies and unemployment, and unemployment insurance. We then started on inflation, discussing what inflation is, why we care, and what a price index is.
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