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hello, everyone. i'm christiane amanpour. we will take you around the world to ask questions and tackle the big problems and let history be our guide. here is where we're headed this week. the united states fights fires on multiple fronts. will it win? a briefing from one of america's best-known generals, david petraeus. >> we face more challenges in number and more complex and more dangerous challenges than arguably at any time since the end of the cold war. also ahead, the imf chief optimistic about the u.s. economy. >> cheer up, this is a new year, people. then♪ ♪ ♪ â™...

To be too pessimistic and outlook. what we see today is inflation is going down, labor markets remain very strong. people have jobs. and the prospects for the year are of not very strong growth, but growth nevertheless. >> and what will that mean -- and what will that mean, growth versus not very strong growth? what will that mean for the individual who is worried about their buying ability, their purchasing ability? >> well, the expectation for this year and for the neck couple of years is that growth would be around 3%. to put it in perspective for people, in the previous the average growth ...

Margin on. some manufacturers profit from this, people who run small businesses there everyday firing up coal-fired pizza who are getting killed. lisa. >> lisa: i worry about everything moving into smart technology with the ability for government to track us and be able to control what you do. you look at electric vehicles, they use to track citizen, and ai, and look at push for digital bank for monitoring purchases and use social credit score to determine purchasing ability and ability to live as citizen, i worry about the push for this stuff, in the direction of being controlled by the gover...

It's struggled. specifically the last four or five years, golf being an expendable purchasing ability for people out there, they have lost that money to spend so the golf situation in a lot of cases struggled. we went to most popular locations in the country, palm springs to find out. just off the sixth fairway and eight iron sit jim olson's retirement. course looked well man cured now for 18 months it looked out of bounds because the previous owner well belly-up. >> we had nothing. everybody was frustrated. golf course was overgrown. we were paying for somebody to pick it up. >> that also hap...