One way to interpret this figure is that the Treasury market was expecting
weaker aggregate demand growth in the future and consequently lower inflation.
Thus, it is possible that, in a situation of sustained
weak aggregate demand, relying primarily on monetary policy to provide stimulus may lead to financial vulnerabilities that macroprudential policy can not, or should not, offset.
Productivity growth is arguably sluggish due to
weak aggregate demand growth.
Not exact matches
If the Fed were to respond to
weaker real output resulting from a negative supply shock by taking actions to stimulate
aggregate demand, higher inflation would be the ultimate result, not higher real output.
Weak residential construction has also weighed on
aggregate demand over the first half of this year, although building approvals and liaison reports point to some stabilisation in the period ahead (Graph 5).
But she did suggest that the case for stimulating
aggregate demand is
weaker now than it was a few months ago.
When
aggregate demand in the economy is
weak, for example, inflationary pressures are likely to be diminishing and monetary policy can be eased, which will give a short - term stimulus to economic activity.
Outside of the mining sector, the general improvement in productivity growth may have been in response to a range of competitive pressures coming to bear during a period of
weak growth of
aggregate demand.
The debts built up like mad, ignoring the day when the inevitable weakening in
aggregate demand would come, and debts of marginal, overindebted nations would prove
weak.