What evidence do you have that demand has recovered?
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Production has recovered, as have profits. Goods are being produced, services being performed, and consumers are buying.
See my response to davidmathers for links to specific timeseries.
The way I read those statistics makes me think that we have the same GDP as we would have expected to have reached by the beginning of 2009, except with 2 years worth of population increase, productivity gains, and inflation unaccounted for. The Industrial Production Index chart seems to place us somewhere around the year 2000.