如果要说真正的成本，那就是仅美国就失去了800万份工作，就业率也从最高峰下跌了6 % — —这也是与1945年后历次衰退最大的不同之处 — — 如今距离危机爆发已经过去31个月了，失业率依然徘徊在低于最高峰5%的水平上。
The cost is eight million jobs in the US alone, with employment falling 6% from its peak and – in a major departure from other post-1945 recessions – remaining 5% below that peak today, 31 months after the crisis broke in earnest.