Economic recovery reaches Main Street payrolls

By James Langford

Published February 27, 2018 5:01am ET

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Economic recovery reaches Main Street payrolls — A cyclist passes in front of Liebman's store on Main Street in New Rochelle, N.Y. The leaders of small and mid-size companies are increasingly optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy and their own abilities to increase sales, according to a new survey by JPMorgan Chase. | (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)

For most of the nine years after the longest recession to hit the U.S. since World War II, big corporations had the money and resources to withstand the 2008 financial crisis and invest in the aftermath.

In that period, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway snapped up Burlington Northern railroad, cable-provider Comcast bought the NBC network, and small businesses struggled to attract both consumers and creditors.

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