Inflation and Inequality
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We finished up inflation by talking about the difference between expected and unexpected inflation, how you measure price changes with the CPI, the difference between the GDP deflator and the CPI, what a market basket is, and issues with bias in the CPI. Then we introduced inequality and talked about how to measure inequality.
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