Macroeconomic Challenges to the US economy

According to the IMF;

-Facilitating a soft landing for the economy;

-Maintaining a sound and innovative financial sector;

-Raising domestic savings and lowering the current account deficit, while resisting protectionism; and

-Tackling the key longer-term fiscal challenge of rising entitlement spending

Related;
BIS warns on trade imbalances;

Interest rates in the world’s leading economies should rise while conditions are good to avert the twin risks of rising inflation and trade imbalances that could destroy the remarkable strength of the world economy, the Bank for International Settlements has warned.

The central banker’s bank, based in Basel, Switzerland, also says that financial innovation may be dangerous, especially the wider distribution of credit risk using asset-backed securities. “More scepticism might be expressed about some of the purported benefits of having new players, new instruments and new business models,” it says in its annual report.