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A look ahead to 2018

Looser fiscal policy is likely to support an acceleration in economic growth next year but it will fizzle out again in 2018 leaving ample amounts of spare capacity and little in the way of inflationary pressure. By that point though, the Bank of Japan will have little room to expand monetary stimulus further.

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