We continue to face strong headwinds originating from the deepening European debt crisis, as well as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. China, once the world s unstoppable growth engine, is slowing.

BERLIN In his speech at the 2015 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang acknowledged that China s economy is facing strong headwinds. Annual GDP growth in 2014 was 7.4 , the lowest rate since 1990.

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The economic and financial headwinds from outside the US are strong and gusting, owing largely to the ever worsening European crisis, which is now entering an even more disruptive and unpredictable phase as depositors in some countries step up their withdrawals from local banks. But it also reflects the beginning of a growth slowdown in the major emerging countries, including Brazil, China, India, and Russia.

The economic and financial headwinds from outside the US are strong and gusting, owing largely to the ever worsening European crisis, which is now entering an even more disruptive and unpredictable phase as depositors in some countries step up their withdrawals from local banks. But it also reflects the beginning of a growth slowdown in the major emerging countries, including Brazil, China, India, and Russia.

There is certainly cause for concern. Slow and uncertain growth in Europe a major trading partner for both the US and China is creating headwinds for the US and China.

Looking ahead, strong headwinds imply that it will be difficult to achieve better economic performance in the rest of the year. Higher energy prices are reducing real household spending on non energy goods and services weakness in Europe and Asia will hurt America s exports state and local governments are cutting their spending and concerns about higher taxes in 2013 will dampen both business investment and big ticket consumer spending.

The timekeepers are central banks. But their control of the clock is less than perfect and it will become increasingly ineffective if economic improvement faces additional political headwinds in the months ahead.

The economic headwinds are formidable fiscal austerity, high interest rates outside AAA rated countries, credit cutting by banks, deleveraging households, weak private sector investment, and declining exports as the global slowdown undermines demand.

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In the US, the story is one of continued recovery as the headwinds slowing growth dissipate. State and local government budgets are improving, the housing market is strengthening, and households are deleveraging and repairing their balance sheets.

For other countries, including the US, medium term issues came to the fore. But, rather than catalyzing sensible policy discussions, these issues played into polarized and polarizing politics, creating new and more immediate headwinds to economic growth.

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Residential investment is still at an historic low as a share of GDP as a result of overbuilding during the 2003 2008 housing boom and the tsunami of foreclosures that followed. But the headwinds in the housing market are dissipating.

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Even the one factor that has effectively increased disposable incomes and augmented demand sharply declining commodity prices, particularly for fossil fuels is ultimately problematic. Indeed, for commodity exporting countries, the fall in prices is generating fiscal and economic headwinds of varying intensity.

With economic headwinds dissipating, the United States prospects for faster GDP growth appear promising. But there is also a significant risk that a large and unnecessary dose of fiscal austerity will weaken demand, undermine confidence, and tip the economy back into recession.

Economic growth rates in other systemically large countries, including Turkey and Mexico, have risen as well, despite European and US headwinds. Many African countries, too, are showing a broad pattern of sound macroeconomic fundamentals, durable growth acceleration, economic diversification, and investor confidence.