In the short run, the increase in consumption spending associated with the stock market expansion causes the price level to the price level people expected and the quantity of output to the natural level of output. The stock market boom will cause the unemployment rate to the natural rate of unemployment in the short run. Again, the following graph shows a hypothetical economy experiencing long-run equilibrium at the expected price level of 120 and natural output level of $300 billion, prior to the increase in consumption spending associated with the stock market expansion. Along the transition from the short run to the long run, price-level expectations will and the curve will shift to the