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Muted recovery will eventually lead to deflation

The US economic recovery shows few signs of any meaningful acceleration, suggesting that unemployment will remain chronically high and inflation will continue to edge towards zero. There is now a greater than 50% chance that underlying inflation will turn negative within the next two years.

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