After the turn of the millennium, the United States suffered its weakest decade of economic growth in the post-World War II era, and served as ground zero of the global financial crisis. Forecasters predicted a long American decline. Instead, over the course of the 2010s, the United States staged a comeback as an economic superpower and, even more, as a financial superpower.
The United States economy grew faster than other rich countries and navigated the decade without suffering a single recession — a first since records began in the 1850s. Defying the declinists, the United States was one of only two major countries, alongside China, to expand its share of the global economy in the 2010s.