At any time your dog has a meltdown, you'll need to return a few steps to build up her courage again.
Most banks will be able to return to pre-meltdown profitability within a year, says CreditSights analyst David Hendler.
But it could take Citigroup between five years and seven years to return to pre-meltdown levels, assuming it keeps its dividend and is forced to move its SIV exposure on to its balance sheet.
Since the meltdowns, her relatives had pleaded with her to return to the city, but she had decided to stay in a borrowed house only forty minutes away.
With so many both on Wall Street and in the media tripping over themselves to return to the pre-meltdown status quo, it's easy to get blinded by the premature exuberance and hop on the green shoots bandwagon.
Approximately eighteen thousand people died or were lost in the wake of the March 11 , 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, and tens of thousands remain displaced, unable to return to their homes for now, and perhaps forever.
David Hendler, an analyst at CreditSights, reckons that without cutting its dividend, it would take Citi at least five years to return to its pre-subprime meltdown profitability.
As the new construction condo market is starting to emerge from meltdown, any action by the courts that forces developers to return deposits won't be helpful to the housing recovery.
While she said she still expects the Fed to gradually hike interest rates this year, she reiterated that policymakers were not on a "pre-set" path to return policy to "normal" given a worsening meltdown in global stock markets.
Japan's plans to return to nuclear power generation more than four years after the triple meltdown at Fukushima received a boost on Wednesday after a court approved the restart of two nuclear reactors.
