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5. GRAPH: Unemployment expectations and Inflation expectations

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 11:04 AM

Aug 15

The thing to remember is that high is bad for both measures on this graph, which are worse than anytime in the 24 1/2 years depicted in the graph except briefly for a couple of periods.

Unemployment expectations even beat the dot-com bust.

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