These reforms made Germany more competitive, attracted investment and jobs, and paved the way for the country's economicresurgence and an unemployment rate currently at 5.7%.
Kirk Siegler of member station KUNC tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that the people of Leadville began to anticipate an economicresurgence that would come with the reopening of the Climax mine.
It remains an impediment to putting the country back on a path of fiscal sanity, one that will lead to an economicresurgence and better well-being for all of us.
Without him, the extraordinary resurgence and reformation of conservatism in American political and economic life that culminated in the presidency of Ronald Reagan would never have come to pass.
Just how long coal's resurgence lasts depends to some extent on the global economic recovery and the ability of governments to implement a system that finally delivers a meaningful carbon price.
While a total financial meltdown may not be in the cards, recent reports of slowing European economic growth could throw a damp towel on the nascent global stock resurgence.