Forecast 2014: Better, Not Great.

METAL industry; STRAUSS, William; HERMES, Euler; TWENTY-first century; UNITED States economy; CONFERENCES & conventions

The article offers information on the Metals Service Center Institute's (MSCI) Forecast 2014 Conference that was held in Chicago, Illinois in 2013 which discussed the performance of metals supply chain in 2013 and predicted the performance in 2014. It presents views of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago economist William Strauss on the U.S. economy as the strongest in the world. Economist Euler Hermes also said that gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated to be 1.6 percent in 2013.