IMF bombshell: Age of America nears endCommentary: China’s economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016This column has been updated to include a reaction from the IMF. The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China.