Question

If you have done everything correctly, you might realize that stagflation creates a dilemma for the Fed. Why? Choose one or more: A. If the Fed wants to reduce unemployment, it must be willing to accept more inflation. B. If the Fed wants to reduce inflation, it must be willing to accept higher unemployment. C. If the Fed wants to reduce unemployment, it must be willing to accept less inflation. D. If the Fed wants to reduce inflation, it must be willing to accept lower unemployment.

Answer 1

The Federal Reserve seeks to control inflation by influencing interest rates. When inflation is too high, the Federal Reserve typically raises interest rates to slow the economy and bring inflation down.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

A. If the Fed wants to reduce unemployment, it must be willing to accept more inflation.

B. If the Fed wants to reduce inflation, it must be willing to accept higher unemployment.

Step-by-step explanation:

Stagflation is a situation in which there is a shift of the supply curve to the left that results in a high inflation due to which there is a high unemployement. Now if the fed wants to reduce the inflation so the demand would decline due to which the unemployment rises

Therefore A and B are correct

And C and D are incorrect