Year of the Pig outlook: Is US growth running out of time?

At the beginning of every Chinese New Year, AsianInvestor makes 10 predictions about economic, political and financial developments that are likely to have an impact on the way institutional investors assign their money. We are opening our questions about the Year of the Pig by weighing the health of the US economy (and, by extension, the world’s). Will the US economy suffer a major downturn? Answer: No (at least, not in 2019) Economists have been offering ominous medium-ter…