That???s down from an all-time high of 36 to 1, which came in December 2007 just before banks such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and a bevy of other Wall Street titans came crashing down and nearly destroyed the U.S. economy. (MF Global was running about 33 to 1 before capsizing under the weight of bad bets on European sovereign debt.) The trend is treated as good news by economists who have be