The newly-emerged Asian middle classes have now seen much of their wealth buried under mountains of bad debt or else destroyed as stockmarkets have crashed, currencies have lost value and property bubbles have burst.
And the hundreds of thousands of construction workers -- many of them Latino -- who lost their jobs when the housing bubble burst, I want to put them back to work rebuilding our roads and our bridges and new schools and airports all across the country.
Starlight Runner initially set out to develop software that would allow other companies to tell stories on the Web, but it lost its venture funding after the dot-com bubble burst, so the company retooled into a consulting firm.