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Economists’ fears of a 2020 recession in the US surge(June 6, 2019)
created At: 2/12/2025
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60% chance of recession by end of 2020 according to survey Only 15% recession risk for 2019 GDP growth forecast at 1.9% for Q4 2020 vs current 3.1% 56% cite protectionist trade policy as greatest economic risk 88% lowered GDP forecasts due to trade policy concerns Business spending expected to moderate from 6.9% growth Stock market decline (14%) and global slowdown (10%) seen as secondary risks
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The economic outlook shows deeply troubling signs of trade policy impacts. The dramatic increase in recession probability from 15% to 60% in just one year suggests rapid deterioration in business confidence. Most concerning is how trade policy has become the dominant risk factor, with an overwhelming 88% of economists lowering growth forecasts specifically due to trade concerns. The expected moderation in business spending could accelerate the downturn as companies hold back investment.
Core Sell Point
The convergence of trade policy risks, declining business investment, and near-unanimous concern among economists suggests increasing probability of a policy-induced recession that could be more severe than expected due to simultaneous global trade tensions.


America’s business leaders are growing more worried that the United States will enter a recession by the end of 2020. Their primary fear: protectionist trade policy.

That is the topline finding of a report released Monday by the National Association for Business Economics. The survey, based on responses by 53 economists, is a leading barometer of where the US business community thinks the economy is headed.

“Increased trade protectionism is considered the primary downwide risk to growth by a majority of the respondents,” Gregory Daco, chief US economist for Oxford Economics, said in a statement. The report found what it called a “surge” in recession fears among the economists.

The report comes as the United States ratchets up its trade war with China and has gone after other major trading partners, including Mexico and India.

The risk of recession happening soon remains low but will “rise rapidly” next year. The survey’s respondents said the risk of recession starting in 2019 is only 15% but 60% by the end of 2020. About a third of respondents forecast a recession will begin halfway through next year.

According to the survey, the median forecast for gross domestic product growth in the last quarter of 2020 was 1.9%. That would be a big drop from the most recent estimate of current US economic growth — 3.1% in the first three months of 2019.

The United States is probably somewhere in the last stages of an epic run of economic growth that began in 2009. Dramatic and coordinated responses by the Federal Reserve, Congress and the Obama administration helped pull the country up from the Great Recession.

President Donald Trump, who took the reins of the US economy from Barack Obama in 2017, has aggressively tried to reorder the US position on global trade. He has picked prominent fights with China and Europe and has threatened tariffs on Mexico over illegal immigration and India over access to its markets.

Other notable findings from the National Association for Business Economics:

– 56% of respondents cited increasingly protectionist trade policy as the greatest risk to the US economy in 2019. Separately, 88% pointed to US trade policy, and retaliation by other nations, for why they lowered their GDP growth forecasts.

– 14% believe a “substantial” decline in the stock market, and 10% feel a slowdown in global growth, are the biggest risks to the US economy.

– Business spending will moderate this year and next after growing a strong 6.9% in 2018.

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