The fraction of small business owners reporting that obtaining capital was easy was 18 percentage points lower last quarter than in the quarter when the Great Recession began and only 6 percentage points higher than when the current economic expansion started. (entrepreneur.com)
As measured by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the current economic expansion began in June 2009 and is already the fourth longest in the postwar era. (fortune.com)
And it's a good question when you consider the US's current economic expansion is already the second - longest of the postwar era. (businessinsider.com)