zanny minton beddoes is the economics editor of "the commission. ian bremer. bred stevens is the pulitzer prizewinning columnest for "wall street journal," and anne-marie slaughter is the president and ceo of the new america foundation, a former director of policy planning at the state department. okay. zanny, what everyone wants to know is will we get richer in 2014? i suppose the u.s. economy principally, but what do you think will be noteworthy? >> i'm going to stick my neck out. i think the global economy will get better and improve, largely because of an acceleration. that sustained acceleration that we've hoped to hasn't happened yet, but i think will -- >> to 3.5, 4% growth? >> 3%. 3 rather than 2. why do i think that? because i think the headwinds from the deleverages, paying down of debt is over, mortgage credit is increasing, consumer balance sheets are in reasonably good shape, corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape. the fiscal tightening that's dragged down growth is abate. the budget deal is very important. push the tightening down the ro

zanny minton beddoes, bret stephens, ian bremmer and anne-marie slaughter.hat do you think is going to be noteworthy? >> i'll stick my neck out. i think global economy will get better. it will improve and grow faster largely because of an acceleration in the u.s. economy. that sustained acceleration that we've hoped for and that hasn't happened yet will happen in 2014. >> 3.5% to 4% growth? >> 3%. close to three rather than around two. i think headwinds from financial crisis, paying down of debt is over. mortgage credit is increasing. consumer balance sheets are in good shape. corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape. fiscal tightening that's dragged down growth this year and in previous years is abating. budget deal is important. it's more sensible fiscal policy. push tightening down the road when the economy can do it. underneath it the u.s. economy has some really big strengths whether it's the shale gas revolution or competitive labor force or traditional strengths of this free market economy, i think they will come for the fore. it's not going to