A prolonged housing downturn means that economic growth will be much weaker over the next two years. Gains in business investment and somewhat better export growth, though, will help to buffer economic growth. Overall, we expect annual GDP growth to slow from 2.0% in 2012 to only 1.2% in 2013 and 1.4% in 2014.
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