Hamish Pepper: What's behind the recent decline in inflation?

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Annual core inflation dropped from 5.7 percent to 5.2 percent in Q3. Employment dropped in Q3 and pushed the unemployment rate to almost 4 percent. Job ads also dropped almost 6 percent in October- below pre-COVID levels. So what's the cause of all of this? Hamish Pepper from Harbour Asset Management joins the Weekend Collective to give his take. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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