But there is no question that if U.S. productivity hinged on retaining mothers in the workforce, these policies would be put back into place on a dime.

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The speech and a bit of somewhat encouraging U.S. economic data released Monday has at least temporarily put some investor risk appetite back into the market place.

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And once I put the man back together, the world fell into place.

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National security letters date back to the 1980s and were strengthened under the USA Patriot Act, the counterterrorism law put into place after Sept. 11.

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Put simply, we risk slipping back into the old imbalances that contributed to the economic crisis in the first place and which threaten global recovery.

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