E-INVESTMENTS EXERCISES The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has information available on interest rates and economic conditions. Its Monetary Trends page (https://research.stlouisfed.org/datatrends/mt/) contains graphs and tables with information about current conditions in the capital markets. Find the most recent issue of Monetary Trends and answer these questions. 1. What is the professionals' consensus forecast for inflation for the next two years? (Use the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia line on the graph for Measures of Expected Inflation to answer this.) 2. What do consumers expect to happen to inflation over the next two years? (Use the University of Michigan line on the graph to answer this.) 3. Have real interest rates increased, decreased, or remained the same over the last two years? 4. What has happened to short-term nominal interest rates over the last two years? What about long-term nominal interest rates? 5. How do recent U.S. inflation and long-term interest rates compare with those of the other countries listed? 6. What are the most recently available levels of 3-month and 10-year yields on Treasury securities