I’m a bit surprised this wasn’t mentioned more in reporting on the third quarter GDP numbers, but pending further revisions we’ve now (at last) re-obtained the pre-recession GDP peak:
Of course the population has grown in the past three years, so we’re still poorer on a per capita basis.
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