- Surging population growth is masking serious structural weakness in the economy.
- Even with strong population growth, we expect real GDP to show virtually no gains between the first quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024.
- Consumers are parking their spending, but the slowdown is more emphatic in the group most heavily mortgaged.
- Housing policy is finally gaining governments’ attention, but it remains to be seen if coherent supply solutions will emerge.
- Labour markets are softening, but the unemployment rate should remain below 6.0 per cent.
- Export performance will be sluggish behind a weakening world economy, but imports will slow even more, leaving an improvement in net trade balances.
- The drive to push inflation back down to 2.0 per cent continues, but interest rates at current levels likely can do the job.
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