The steps we've taken over the last two years may have broken the back of this recession, but to win the future, we'll need to take on challenges that have been decades in the making.

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Investors are worried that European austerity policies will now be scrapped going forward, leading to a continuation of bloated government budgets and two steps back from the two steps forward the EU has taken over the last year in solving its debt crises.

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