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Questioning the assumptions underlying the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook

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imageMajor economic indicators have not changed since the federal budget.Flickr/Francisco Martins, CC BY

Coming just weeks after the federal budget, the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) was unlikely to reveal anything new.

And in general this is the case, with the projected deficit for 2016-17 remaining at $37.1 billion (although the...

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