The ECB’s loose monetary stance isn’t compatible with Slovakia’s advanced stage of the business cycle and it looks like the government will respond by tightening fiscal policy to prevent the economy from overheating. This, coupled with household deleveraging, is likely to take the steam out of the economy by late-2019 and into 2020.
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