Homeowner with a fixed- rate mortgage

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Suppose that people expect inflation to equal 3 percent, but in fact, prices rise by 1 percent.

Describe how this unexpectedly low inflation rate would help or hurt the following:

a. homeowner with a fixed- rate mortgage

b. a union worker in the second year of a labor contract

c. an individual who purchased inflation-indexed Treasury bonds

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