If a financial institution extends a 25 year loan at a 6 percent interest rate, and then the inflation rate increases suddenly and unexpectedly to 6 percent per year, the institution receives on its loan a real return of

A) minus 12 percent.
B) zero percent.
C) 6 percent.
D) 12 percent.
E) 36 percent.


B

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