it’s too early to talk about the risk of a recession in the us where growth is likely to remain positive for the near future even as it slows down according to the international monetary fund’s new chief economist russia’s invasion of ukraine has delivered a “sizable shock” to the global economy that will challenge policy makers to tame inflation without quashing growth pierreolivier gourinchas said thursday in his first interview since taking the job in january still “we’re not looking at a recessionary environment in the us at least in the near future” he said “what we are seeing is along the lines of a slowdown in growth but still solidly in positive territory”