By 1992 the list of participating countries had grown to 140, and the timetable for ending production of CFCs advanced to 1996. This goal has largely been met. HCFCs pose less of a risk than CFCs because they decompose more readily in the lower atmosphere; nevertheless, they too degrade the ozone layer and are scheduled to be phased out by 2030.
From the end of 1984 until the eve of the Great Recession at the end of 2007, real personal consumption grew almost 37% more than the other components of real GDP. To a large extent, the secular growth of demand depended on the reliable rise in the spending of American households.
Following the bursting of the housing bubble in mid-2007, the United States entered a severe recession. The United States entered 2008 during a housing market correction and a subprime mortgage crisis. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) dates the beginning of the recession as December 2007.ealthcare costs in the United States slowed in the period after the Great Recession (2008-2012). A decrease in inflation and in the number of hospital stays per population drove a reduction in the rate of growth in aggregate hospital costs at this time.