As an aside, I love it when politicians take credit for naturally occurring phenomena like this. Industry go pummeled during that crash and every single business worked hard to claw their way out of the ditch. And then politicians proclaim "The sun went down and we made it come up every morning for the last six years!". You couldn't make this shit up.
When you find yourself at the bottom of a deep hole the only way to go is up.
That's what happened with the crash of 2008. See the chart posted by Animats, here again for convenience:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
As an aside, I love it when politicians take credit for naturally occurring phenomena like this. Industry go pummeled during that crash and every single business worked hard to claw their way out of the ditch. And then politicians proclaim "The sun went down and we made it come up every morning for the last six years!". You couldn't make this shit up.