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Nominal GDP
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consumption + business investments + government expenses + exports - imports = nominal GDP
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Real GDP: price and quantity problems
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base year prices x new year's quantities = new year's RGDP
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Real GDP: deflator problems
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100 (nominal GDP/ real GDP) = GDP deflator
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CPI
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100 (cost of market in a given year/ cost of market in base year)
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Inflation Rate
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100 (CPI this year-CPI last year)/ CPI last year
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Real wages
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100 (nominal wage rate/ CPI)
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Real interest rate
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nominal interest rate- inflation rate
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Nominal interest rate
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real interest rate + inflation rate
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Labor force participation rate
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100 (employed people + unemployed people)/ working age noninstitutionalized population
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unemployment rate
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100 (unemployed/ labor force)
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natural rate of unemployment
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100 (structural + frictional)/ labor force