A decade ago, the United States' economy was on the ropes amid a swirling global financial crisis and an untested President Barack Obama at the helm.
With homes being foreclosed and jobs rapidly being shed, the air was laden with a sense of doom. The era of US dominance seemed decidedly over.
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