{"id":1302,"date":"2021-09-13T04:01:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/2021\/09\/13\/the-economic-pulse-september-2021-edition\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T04:01:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:01:52","slug":"the-economic-pulse-september-2021-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/canadian-analysis\/featured-analysis\/insights\/the-economic-pulse-september-2021-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economic Pulse \u2013 September 2021 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; display: block; max-width: 960px;\">\n<div style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/6021289101001\/o4z8VJuie_default\/index.html?videoId=6272324685001\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>In this special edition of the Economic Pulse, RBC Deputy Chief Economist Dawn Desjardins provides an in-depth summary of three key themes from the September 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtleadership.rbc.com\/the-long-and-winding-road-to-recovery\/\">Macroeconomic Outlook report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4><b>Theme 1: Countries on the road toward pre-pandemic GDP<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Most of the countries we cover managed to plow through the second quarter posting strong gains with the US even surpassing its pre-pandemic level of GDP. Canada, however, was the outlier and GDP fell in the quarter mainly due to restrictions remaining in place longer than in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>While these headwinds will continue to blow in the months ahead, we do not expect them to push the economies off course with high vaccination rates making another round of restrictions unlikely and supply chain and labour shortages likely to abate as activity levels return to more normal levels.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 75px; height: 4px; background: #FEE100; margin: 25px 0; clear: both;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<h4><b>Theme 2: Canada hits a bump in Q2<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>In Canada, the second quarter provided a negative surprise with GDP falling at just over a 1% annualized rate. 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