The break-even inflation rate is the

A) excess of the nominal interest rate over the TIPS interest rate.
B) inflation rate that makes the nominal interest rate equal the real interest rate.
C) negative of the real interest rate.
D) inflation rate that is optimal according to the Friedman rule.


A

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