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.

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