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Real vs Nominal GDP: Why It Matters

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Forgetting to multiply by 100 is flagged as the single most common student error on the deflator formula, and the script has the class chorus the equation three times before the first practice problem. An extension sends students to pull the GDP and GDPC1 series themselves.

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