"Krugman isn’t alone in seeing a gloomy outlook for the world’s biggest economy. U.S. chief financial officers in a Duke University survey published in December

"Krugman isn’t alone in seeing a gloomy outlook for the world’s biggest economy. U.S. chief financial officers in a Duke University survey published in December overwhelmingly said they expect a recession within two years." edit: https://www.cfosurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Q4-2018-US-KeyNumbers.pdf https://www.cfosurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Q4-2018... "Nearly half (48.6%) of US CFOs believe that the US will be in recession by the end of 2019 and 82% believe that a recession will have begun by the end of 2020. CFOs are even more pessimistic in most other regions of the world: Africa (97% believe that a recession will have begun no later than year-end 2019), Canada (86%), Europe (66.7%), Asia (54%), Latin America (42%)"