American Consumers are Holding Up the Global Economy. But for How Long?
Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2019–Rachel Siegel, Abha Bhattari, Heather Long
As a number of signs point to a possible downturn in the United States, economists are growing more skeptical that consumers will continue to open up their wallets as freely. A failure to do so could hasten the arrival of the first U.S. recession in a decade.
