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Visit the Bureau of Economic Analysis Web site, http://www.bea.gov, and access the BEA interactively by selecting National Income and Product Account Tables. Select Frequently Requested NIPA Tables, and use Tables 1.1 and 1.2 to identify the GDP (nominal GDP) and real GDP for the past four quarters. Why was nominal GDP greater than real GDP in each of those quarters? What were the percentage changes in nominal GDP and real GDP for the most recent quarter? What accounts for the difference?

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Reason for Nominal GDP is greater than the Real GDP
Usually, as we know Nominal GDP is calculated from the current price level and Real GDP is calculated from base year price level.
In the recent period, Since the US economy has been being affected by financial crisis due to subprime mortgage crisis. The recession has forced the price level to come down and thereby inflation. Since the Nominal ...

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