The value of commercial and industrial loans of less than $ 1 million — a common proxy for small business lending — was 17 percent lower in June of this year than it was at the beginning of the recovery — when measured in inflation adjusted terms. (entrepreneur.com)
Cost cutting is usually the way companies make their numbers when the economy is in a slump or at the beginning of a recovery. (fortune.com)
Since the beginning of the recovery following the last financial crisis, New York's biggest retail investors have been pouring billions of dollars into the sector, fueling what some call «frothiness» if not an outright price bubble. (therealdeal.com)