{"id":247398,"date":"2026-01-20T04:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247398\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:06:21","slug":"analysts-paint-bright-picture-for-us-economy-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247398\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysts paint bright picture for US economy in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts painted a rosy picture for the US economy for the year ahead. <\/p>\n<p>Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/economy\/economist-survey-2026-growth-outlook-7e5d8feb\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">increased their estimates<\/a> for growth in both 2025 and 2026, while Apollo\u2019s chief economist noted prediction markets have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolloacademy.com\/us-growth-accelerating-as-we-go-through-2026\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">slashed their bets on a recession<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs\u2019 chief US economist went further, arguing that the bank\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmansachs.com\/insights\/articles\/us-gdp-growth-is-projected-to-outperform-economist-forecasts-in-2026\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">strongest conviction views<\/a> for 2026 are our above-consensus GDP growth forecast and our below-consensus inflation forecast.\u201d That bullish outlook is in keeping with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/19\/business\/imf-world-economic-outlook-2026.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">improving forecasts for global growth<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But not everyone is convinced: One leading economist who forecast the dot-com bubble and the 2008 financial crash is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2026\/01\/18\/ai-bubble-predictions-crash\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">voicing worry of an AI bubble<\/a>, and US voters are increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/trump-approval-rating-economy-poll-b3a62e57\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">rating the economy as weak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dd58a510430a4ce1f4cc23de0a746194d27f7172-1066x946.jpg\" alt=\"A chart showing Trump\u2019s net approval on several categories. \" width=\"800\" height=\"709\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts painted a rosy picture for the US economy for the year ahead. Economists surveyed by The Wall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-247398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}