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The third quarter brought mixed results for the U.S. office market as fundamentals continue to soften under intense cyclical headwinds created by interest rate hikes, but considerable progress in return-to-office plans, growing tenant requirements, declining sublease additions, and a tightening market for high-end space all point to stabilization in 2024.
The U.S. faces a challenging fiscal outlook in the coming years, according to CBO's projections. Measured as a percentage of GDP, large and sustained deficits lead to high and rising federal debt that exceeds any previously recorded level.
By the end of 2023, federal debt held by the public equals 98 percent of GDP. Debt then rises in relation to GDP: It surpasses its historical high in 2029, when it reaches 107 percent of GDP, and climbs to 181 percent of GDP by 2053. Such high and rising debt would slow economic growth, push up interest payments to foreign holders of U.S. debt, and pose significant risks to the fiscal and economic outlook; it could also cause lawmakers to feel more constrained in their policy choices.
The latest update of our forecasts was published on 22 November 2023 in the November 2023 Economic and fiscal outlook. Read the Executive summary for the key messages of our forecast or the full report on our website.
Chapter 4 sets out our forecasts for receipts and public spending over a five-year horizon. We also explain our loans and other financial transactions forecasts. All this, together with new policy decisions, builds the outlook for borrowing and debt.
During the forecasting period, the BRC held dozens of scrutiny and challenge meetings with officials from other departments, in addition to numerous further meetings at staff level and those with external stakeholders. We have been provided with all the information and analysis that we requested and have come under no pressure from Ministers, advisers or officials to change any of our conclusions as the forecast has progressed. Richard Hughes met with the Chancellor on 6 and 15 September to discuss early forecast judgements. The BRC also met with the Chancellor twice, to discuss the forecast over the course of its production (on 10 October and 2 November). A full log of our substantive contact with Ministers, their offices and special advisers can be found on our website. This includes the list of special advisers and officials who received the near-final draft of the EFO on 17 November.
1.1 The economy has proved to be more resilient to the shocks of the pandemic and energy crisis than anticipated. By the middle of this year, the level of real GDP stood nearly 2 per cent above its pre-pandemic level and around 3 per cent above our March forecast. But we now expect the economy to grow more slowly over the forecast period, leaving the level of real GDP only a per cent higher in the medium term than in our March forecast. Inflation is expected to be more persistent and domestically fuelled than we previously thought, falling below 5 per cent by the end of this year but not returning to its 2 per cent target until the first half of 2025, more than a year later than in March. Markets now expect interest rates will need to remain higher for longer to bring inflation under control. Despite the more challenging outlook for the real economy, higher inflation leaves nominal GDP nearly 5 per cent higher by the start of 2028 than we forecast in March.
1.6 In our central forecast, we have revised down our estimate of the medium-term potential growth rate of the economy to 1.6 per cent, from 1.8 per cent in March. The revision is largely driven by a weaker forecast for average hours per worker, which we now expect to fall in the medium term, rather than holding flat. This largely reflects our reassessment of the effect of demographic shifts in the composition of the working population toward younger and older age groups who work shorter hours on average. We now also forecast a rising retirement rate for capital, which is more consistent with recent technological trends and dampens our forecast for capital deepening and productivity. On top of these factors, recent data and historical revisions point to a weaker near-term outlook for total factor productivity growth. The impact of these downward revisions on the medium-term level of GDP are only partly offset by higher migration, stronger business investment, lower energy prices, and the policy measures which further boost labour supply and business investment in this forecast.
1.12 Nominal GDP is forecast to be around 5 per cent higher in the medium term than expected in March. This is driven by a combination of historical revisions and our forecast for higher growth in the GDP deflator which more than offsets our weaker forecast growth in real GDP. Our March outlook assumed that the spike in inflation was mostly an externally driven terms-of-trade shock brought about by a spike in global energy prices, with limited implications for the GDP deflator and nominal GDP growth. But a more dramatic fall back in energy prices and tighter labour market than anticipated in March, suggest the main drivers for inflation have switched from external to domestic pressures, especially nominal earnings (Chart 1.3). As a result, our forecasts for growth in labour incomes, nominal consumption, and profits have all been revised up significantly. Stronger growth in these key tax bases, coupled with tax thresholds that remain frozen over the next five years, drive a significant increase in our tax receipts forecast.
1.14 The medium-term fiscal outlook has also improved materially compared to March, with pre-measures borrowing forecast to be 26.8 billion lower in 2027-28 (Chart 1.4). More persistent, domestically generated inflation coupled with frozen tax thresholds raises pre-measures receipts by 59.0 billion by 2027-28, with just over half coming from higher income tax and NICs receipts. The 32.2 billion increase in pre-measures spending is more muted as higher inflation and interest rates increase welfare spending and debt interest costs, but not departmental and other spending which remains largely unchanged. The reduction in 2027-28 pre-measures borrowing relative to our March forecast is therefore mainly a reflection of a 19.1 billion erosion in the real value of departmental spending.
1.18 Despite an increase of 4.1 billion a year on average in this Autumn Statement, higher inflation means the real value of departmental spending is 19.1 billion lower by 2027-28 than our March forecast. The current Spending Review period ends in 2024-25, and beyond this departmental spending follows two overall envelopes set by the Government in which day-to-day spending grows by 0.9 per cent a year in real terms and capital spending is fixed in cash terms. As previous spending reviews have approached, governments have topped up annual day-to-day spending envelopes significantly: by 39 billion (14 per cent) on average in the year up to the November 2015 Spending Review, and by 32 billion (8 per cent) in the October 2021 Spending Review. The outlook for departmental spending is therefore a significant and growing risk to our forecast.
2.12 Risks around the outlook for inflation remain high, given both domestic and international uncertainty. Our fan chart of potential inflation outcomes is normally constructed using historic forecast errors since 2003 (left panel Chart 2.5). This method suggests fairly contained risks to our projections, with only a 1 in 3 chance that inflation will be above 3 per cent in 2025. But this method understates the risks to our current forecast. Since 2020, the economy has undergone a series of major shocks from the pandemic and then the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The right-hand panel of Chart 2.5 shows how some of the forecast errors due to these shocks fell well outside our historic distribution. As discussed in paragraph 2.7, the current conflict in the Middle East poses a significant risk to the outlook for global energy prices. And more upward surprises to wage settlements represent a key domestic risk to the inflation outlook.
These effects mean that this higher and more domestically driven inflation explains much of the improvement since March in the pre-measures fiscal outlook. It has led to a significant boost to nominal receipts, only partly offset by higher welfare and debt interest spending. Given departmental spending has not been fully adjusted to reflect inflation, it also leads to a decline in its real value. These fiscal consequences are set out in detail in Chapter 4.
2.24 Total factor productivity growth rises from recent subdued rates to reach around 0.9 per cent in 2028, above the average seen in the decade after the financial crisis but still below the rates seen before the financial crisis. This gives an average contribution to potential output growth from 2023 to 2028 of 0.7 percentage points. The outlook for TFP and overall productivity is extremely uncertain and we explore alternative scenarios where productivity growth is stronger and weaker than in our central forecast in Chapter 5.
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