Suppose that people expect inflation to be 3 percentbut that, in fact, prices rise by 5 percent. Describehow this unexpectedly high inflation would help orhurt the following:a. the governmentb. a homeowner with a fixed-rate mortgagec. a union worker in the second year of a laborcontractd. a college that has invested some of its endowmentin government bonds

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