In spite of their big comeback, home prices are well below their pre-crash highs.
It took a quarter of a century for the market to return to pre-crash levels.
Property prices have gone up 15%since last year, but they have not yet reached the pre-crash levels of a decade ago.
This time, Bernstein predicts, revenue growth at Thomson Reuters will not reach pre-crash levels until at least 2015.
Aside from JPMorgan and Wells, these financial names are still below pre-crash levels.
Jonathan Hopper, of the property search company Garrington, called it "an extraordinary rate not seen since the heady pre-crash days".
Add to this the pre-crash hollowing out of the SEC, which has led to at-times comical forms of enforcement.
The average two week range is at two year lows and at levels of the bull market of the pre-crash.
When most states were gleefully building unsustainable liabilities in the pre-crash party years, Daniels was scrutinizing every line item of state government.
Some 20 years later the stock market reached its old pre-crash peak and the economy powered by pent up consumer purchases, roared ahead.
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What if the market merely returns to its normal, pre-crash behavior?
Flash back five months: I'm at a test track at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, in a Lexus fitted with a pre-crash safety system.
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Many ex-pats rent, and since the financial crisis of 2008, rents have come down in Dubai, in some cases to almost half of what they were pre-crash.
She points to one of her successors in the social history department who, thanks to pre-crash funding, has been able to work with young people and those with mental health problems.
Both CEOs took over their companies near the bottom of the capital markets trough and have worked their companies back up to a stock price nearly identically above the pre-crash all-time high.
Home prices are climbing rapidly in the Bay Area, where the economy is performing better, and could reach 2007 pre-crash levels within the next year or two, if the current tech bubble continues.
There is an ongoing three-way debate between those who believe the Fed should do more to strengthen the recovery, those who believe that the recovery is strong enough to continue on its own, and those who believe that the economy has been so fundamentally altered by the recession that no amount of stimulus can succeed in pushing unemployment down to pre-crash levels.
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Today, at some 11, 700, the Dow is 85% of the pre- snap-crash high, just like in 1977.
In addition, Wall Street is facing three strong headwinds as it strives to race towards the pre-2008 crash levels.
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While housing construction and other building will take time to return to pre-financial-crash levels, the repair and restoration side of this industry is doing well, particularly since those who have had their buildings foreclosed upon are stripping gutters and other exposed metal for recycling.
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Such was the attitude that prevailed in pre-2008 Wall Street crash.
" Salon.com goes on, "As the economy improves, Hathaway -- whose peak of fame, post-boyfriend, pre-Oscar-hosting, came amid the 2008 economic crash -- may just be a reminder of bad times.
If so, a dollar plunge might look more like the pre-condition for the October 1987 stock market crash than the healthy dollar weakness at the start of the 2002-2003 expansion.
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