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quarter still remains worse than the pre-coronavirus levels, which reached a maximum of 16% in 2019 and -17% in 2018. Given the population’s very high expectations for prices to rise that are at least double the actual rate of inflation, it appears the population remains significantly more pessimistic about the future than businesspeople.
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