Imagine that the economy grows 2% in real terms during the year and productivity increases 5%. The best guess is that we ___ jobs (or hours worked).

After losing 1 kg during a long run, how much fluid should the athlete consume?

Since 2021, the share of USTs owned by ___ has increased relative to the share owned by ___.

Foreign investors seem to be ___ US stocks and ___ the US dollar.

In Powell’s press conference (at the end of the FOMC meeting), Powell estimated the breakeven jobs number to be ___.

You would normally expect the U-6 unemployment rate to be ___ than the U-3 unemployment rate.

If economic growth increases (and is expected to continue to be higher than we had previously expected), our estimate of the neutral rate is likely to ___.

If mortgage rates dropped significantly from their current level (e.g., from 6.25% to 3.0%), this would ___ the “mortgage lock” problem.

According to Greg Mankiw’s speech, “The Fiscal Future,” he believes that the most likely outcome (or approach) that will be taken in order to stop the upward trajectory of the debt-to-GDP ratio is ___.

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.