You already got the payoff, look at some charts of gdp and employment figures from 2008-2012. The downward slide was stopped and the slow recovery started, exa

You already got the payoff, look at some charts of gdp and employment figures from 2008-2012. The downward slide was stopped and the slow recovery started, exactly the opposite of what the naysayers predicted. In other words there was a huge change in the derivative of those rates, downward change flattened and bent upwards.