December is always a good time to reflect on the events of the past year and to look at where we began and ended the year. To find some perspective, I pulled out my December 2008 newsletter interview to see how my predictions for 2009 turned out. This time last year we were dealing with the early stages of the financial crisis and the uncertainty of how the economic recession was going to affect the smart card market and the country as a whole. My optimism for a steady smart card market, in spite of the daunting national challenges we faced in the first quarter of 2009, proved to be on target. Read more…