U.S. Global Growth Engine Putt-Putts Instead of Purring: Economy

The U.S. is resuming its role as an engine of global growth, this time one that just putt-putts along instead of purring.

As the International Monetary Fund declares the strengthening U.S. economy is providing a “major impulse” to the world, economists are questioning just how powerful it will prove to be. The U.S. contribution to global expansion from 2014 to 2019 will likely average about two-thirds that of the quarter-century before the recession started in 2007, according to data compiled by Bloomberg based on IMF projections.