Yes, I know the Great Recession has caused many, many losses. If I wasn't a news fanatic I wouldn't be able to avoid the stories anyway – and as it is, I seek them out.
Everyone talks about the loss of money. X billion dollars vanished.
Everyone talks about the loss of jobs. This country has Y percent unemployment.
Everyone talks about the loss of national prominence. The whole world is going through a self-esteem crisis apparently.
What no one is talking about is that among all this there's been a huge loss of something else, a resource that can be made and destroyed – and once destroyed is hard to remake.
That resource is TRUST. The pundits and economists don't talk about this nearly enough.