“We will rebuild, we will recover and the United States of America will emerge stronger than

“We will rebuild, we will recover and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.”

President Barack Obama

In his speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress. The president laid out a plan that addresses the short-term economic crisis, and deals with such long-term issues as energy independence, health care and education.

“Only if that is the case, in my view there is a reasonable prospect that the current recession will end in 2009 and that 2010 will be a year of recovery.”

Ben Bernanke

Federal Reserve chairman, telling the Senate Banking Committee that an economic turnaround hinges on whether the Fed and the Obama administration can get credit and financial markets to operate normally again.

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