Core inflation has been close to 2 per cent, with disinflationary pressures
from economic slack being offset by transitory effects of the past depreciation of the Canadian dollar and some sector - specific factors.
Core inflation is close to 2 per cent as the transitory effects of the past depreciation of the Canadian dollar are roughly offsetting disinflationary pressures
from economic slack, which has increased this year.
Not exact matches
The Bank expects total CPI inflation to be close to 2 per cent
from early 2017 onwards, when these temporary factors will have dissipated, but downward pressure on inflation will continue while
economic slack persists.
By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth
Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger
from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and
economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation
from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.
Strong consumer spending has picked up the
slack from reduced exports, concerns about financial markets and the oil and gas industry, and the
economic slowdown in China.
The
economic fallout
from 2008 has left even the most prescient analysts
slack - jawed, given the direction, speed and magnitude of market change.