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...What would you want to see change? I would hope that folks in the Obama Administration would somehow link bonuses to long-term corporate productivity or long-term shareholder value - long-term meaning four to five years instead of five months or a year - and reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act [that separated investment and commercial banking]. These are big reforms, but they'd give you a more stable landscape to make even more changes. Part of what I learned is that the very kinds of daily practices that created the boom in the first place - wanting to book as many...
Ever since 1978, when President Jimmy Carter signed the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act (a.k.a. the Humphrey-Hawkins Act) into law, Federal Reserve chairmen have had to troop before Congress twice a year to explain themselves...
...within the Spanish Foreign Ministry declined to say how exactly the issue was resolved, but Dominique Searle, editor of the Gibraltar daily the Chronicle, believes Spain took a pragmatic approach. "It's my impression that they refused to change the demarcation [of waters] but agreed that they wouldn't act upon...
Although the current version of the Mothers Act does not specifically include funding for PPD testing, an earlier one did (it was based on a New Jersey law that mandates universal PPD screening), and critics say the new act will naturally lead to greater use of screening if it passes. Opponents of the bill contend that mental-health screens are notoriously prone to giving false positives - research suggests that as few as one-third of women flagged by a PPD screen actually have the condition - and say testing is a gambit by pharmaceutical companies to sell more drugs...
...Because increased screening could lead to an increase in mothers being prescribed psychiatric medication unnecessarily. That concern lies close to the heart of Amy Philo, 31, of Texas, who has become a leader of the anti-Mothers Act movement. In 2004, shortly after her first son was born, he choked on his vomit and needed emergency treatment. Her son recovered, but after the incident, Philo became preoccupied with his safety and felt severe anxiety about protecting him - a common symptom of PPD. "After a one-minute conversation with my doctor, he gave me Zoloft and said it would make...