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Lower trend growth won’t stop inflation falling

The credit crunch, high oil prices and slowdown in migration may have reduced the economy’s potential or “trend” rate of growth. But this won’t stop the impending recession from creating a large amount of spare capacity and hence putting strong downward pressure on inflation.

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