The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) latest economic outlook should serve as a wake-up call for Washington. While the organization upgraded global growth to 3.2 percent in 2025 after surprising resilience in the first half of the year, the US economy is still forecast to slow sharply — from 2.8 percent growth in 2024 to just 1.8 percent in 2025, before sliding to 1.5 percent in 2026. That’s barely half our historic post-war average of 3.5 percent. At that pace, America’s economy will take more than three decades to double in size — condemning a generation to slower wage gains, fewer opportunities, and diminished prosperity.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the OECD now believes the US will “slow less sharply” in the near term, but warns that tariffs will hit hard in 2026 as protectionist measures take full effect. And as CNBC…
