Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
_ Winston Churchill

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Patrick Jankowski
Vice President, Research
Greater Houston Partnership
1200 Smith St., Suite 700
Houston, TX 77002-4400
Phone: 713-844-3616
Fax: 713-844-0216
pjankowski@houston.org

Randi Pate
Research Assistant
Greater Houston Partnership
1200 Smith St., Suite 700
Houston, TX 77002-4400
Phone: 713-844-3651
Fax: 713-844-0251
rpate@houston.org

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Economic Hangover: Recovery Is Likely To Be Prolonged, Painful

The global financial crisis and the Great Recession of 2008-09 marked the end of a decade that seemed too good to be true for many Americans. After escaping the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 relatively unscathed, the U.S. economy experienced historic booms in stock markets, housing markets and credit markets. Huge increases in households' wealth and borrowing, in turn, supported robust consumer-spending growth and housing investment despite moderate growth of income for most...

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