by: David Morrison

Next year will bring relatively strong growth in gross domestic product, continued lower unemployment and an increase in wages, all of which should lead to a good year for making loans, the consumer finance site WalletHub forecasted.

The site consulted a group of five economists and professors for the forecasts.

WalletHub’s experts estimated the U.S. gross domestic product would reach 3% in 2014, mirroring the same prediction it made last year although the site acknowledged that its previous forecast might have been too conservative.

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