The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.
From Roger Altman
The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.
Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.
Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.
Cheap natural gas is a big stimulus to petrochemical production and a meaningful one for all U.S. manufacturing.
Within a few months in 2008, household finances were crushed as asset values fell, millions of jobs were lost, countless credit cards were canceled, and thousands of homes were foreclosed on.
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