Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) The recent economic crash hit everybody hard. In 2009, the US Labor Department reported that in the final four months of 2008, the US economy lost 524,000 jobs and that the unemployment rate rose to 7.2% which at that time was the highest since 1993. Some lost their homes as well. The banks became … Continue reading There Is Reason To Be Optimistic About The Economy.