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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: How is the US economy doing since the 2007-2009 recession?
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The Dow Jones index has gone from 7400 to 17300; unemployment has gone from 10% to 5%; the budget deficit has gone from 1400 billion to 400 billion; GDP has gone from 14.5 trillion to 16.4 trillion. Industrial capacity has risen 25% but continues the downward trend it's been on since the 1960s (namely, production is still going overseas).

Economically, we've been on a very steady recovery, and in most respects better off than where we were before the recession. By a few measures, such as industrial production per capita, we're not there yet, but we're close.