After the worst part of the recession, what is different today?

I remember everything about the day when the stock market dropped 700+ points. I couldn’t believe it. I thought that it could not happen again. Well, it did… a few more times. Panic was spreading like a virus in one of those movies that stars a monkey. It was chaos. Companies were cutting budgets, stopping projects, and doing everything they could to save cash. People were being sent to …