Our new managing editor looks at where ABQ's business community has been and where it's going

Starting a career at Albuquerque Business First in 2008 marked an interesting time to be at a local online and print business publication, and that’s an understatement.

That was the year JP Morgan bought Bear Stearns for $2 a share; the feds took control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch while Wells Fargo picked up Wachovia; bankruptcy came to Lehman Brothers; the acronym TARP was in huge point size on every newscast; and the government officially declared what…