The IMF warned last week that the global economic recovery was at risk of slowing to “stall speed”, below which a recession becomes inevitable. However, there is little theoretical or empirical evidence to support this concept. Indeed, global growth also slowed sharply in 2012 but subsequently rebounded, a common pattern over the past fifty years or so.
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