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Economics: ITR forecast signals return to ‘normalized’ growth

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You can’t tell just by looking at the leading indices precisely when Russia invaded Ukraine,” Beaulieu said. And for 2026, we’re forecasting a macroeconomic recession, but nothing along the lines of a Great Depression. That doesn’t necessarily change all of a sudden in 2050; that’s just the end point when we stopped the study.”.