"We owe it to ourselves to take a step back, " Cadillac U.S. marketing chief Don Butler said.

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He was leaving his family in the U.S. to take a contract job back in Iraq.

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But to dividend any of the overseas cash, it would first have to bring it back into the U.S., and take that big tax hit.

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They would have to pay a fine, take citizenship classes, pay any back taxes that they owe the U.S. government, and pass a background check, a security background check.

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We believe the U.S. economy will take a while before bouncing back to its pre-recession levels.

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Although the trip south can be just 30 minutes, long lines coming back into the U.S. mean the return trip can take a couple of hours.

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To fully understand the risks that face Bernanke, the Fed and the U.S. economy, I invite you to take a step back from everything we know about monetary policy and observe the critical role of trust in determining the value of a currency and the future path of inflation and interest rates.

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It also isn't clear that the U.S. will be able to hold back and let the international coalition take charge if the effort falters.

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Cheetham estimates that it would take at least 20 milliseconds to reach the east coast of U.S. and 20 milliseconds back which is too long a delay for remote collaborative singing ventures.

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The question for the U.S. financial industry and the legal profession which is charged with watching over its every move as a fiduciary is whether U.S. financiers will take the black box to the bank or send it back from whence it came.

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