The stock market was still down, unemployment numbers still alarming, Wall Street still an international pariah.
His new film, 'Client 9', which is out in theaters, takes a hard look at the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer, and how he went from being the "sheriff of Wall Street" to another political pariah.
Instead the country is a political and economic pariah with streets full of bicycles, donkey-drawn carriages, 1960s cars and overcrowded buses.
Despite being a pariah on Wall Street during the worst of the market's collapse, the insurance sector has been on fire since the March bottom.
INTERNET stocks remain pariahs on Wall Street, but on eBay, the smart money is moving into beleaguered dot-coms.
Turning the busy thoroughfare of the Strand into his political stage, he was transformed from ubiquitous sandwich-board man and friendly street toy seller into ex-colonial pariah".
India's pariah dog, the dominant street breed, is probably a descendant of an early Chinese immigrant, said Peter Savolainen, a professor of evolutionary genetics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
They started "cleaning up and planting up, direct work to reclaim the streets so it wouldn't be a pariah area".
Similarly, Joe Morgenstern described Guy in a review for The Wall Street Journal as "downright vile, a self-created pariah, and funny enough for a reasonable stretch of time" before the plot becomes "both implausible and banal".
In recent years it became a pariah amid its historic neighbors: the Maritime Aquarium across the street, the shops and restaurants around the corner on Washington Street, and the spreading development of the waterfront under urban renewal.
