happy new decade
Happy New Year, Happy New Decade And Welcome To The 2020's
At 11:59 p.m. on New Year's Eve 2009, the world held its collective breath. The anticipation and excitement of a new year and new decade were tempered by the fears of the bottom falling out on the financial markets again. The U.S. economy was on the brink of disaster. The financial markets were unstable, and unemployment was over 9%. I remember sitting in my office in Boston at the height of the crisis when one of the executives from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) called to say, "we need to meet urgently."