Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Today’s Paper DealBook | DealBook Briefing: What Economists Are Worried About for 2019 DealBook Supported by Dec. 14, 2018 Good Friday morning. (Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here .) Economists size up 2019 It’s time for economists to start making their predictions for the year ahead. Among the main questions: What are the biggest threats to the U.S. economy, and will the country fall into a recession? Trade tensions are the top concern. About 47.3 percent of the economists surveyed by the WSJ said the continuing conflict between the U.S. and China was the biggest economic risk of 2019. About one in five cited disruptions in the financial markets as their biggest worry, and 12.7 percent were most worried about a slowdown in business investment. Don’t sweat rising interest rates. Only 7.3 percent of the economists polled by the WSJ said Fed rate increases were the biggest threat to the economy. Economists told the WSJ and Reuters that they only expect two increases next year. Expect a recession soon(ish). Over half of the economists polled by the WSJ expect a recession to… Read full this story
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