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The Crisis in Ukraine: What's Next?

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The Russian stock market topped in April 2011. But three months earlier, in January 2011, our European Financial Forecast gave subscribers a warning about the coming reversal. In fact, as this chart shows, we warned about TWO tops -- one in 2008, and then the most recent one in 2011. Take a look at this chart.

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Today, Economic Confidence is Fragile

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Many experts say the 2008 financial collapse recalibrated investor psychology. Some large investors, including wealthy individuals who lost big during the 2008 collapse, have more or less been stashing money under the mattress. Source: The New York Times, August 7, 2011. But smaller businesses aren’t. Confidence is fragile.

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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

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Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., Google's Corporate Growing Pains Began to Show in the Beginning of 2008. If the user then clicks on the advertisement a "sponsored link" Google earns revenue on a pay-per-click basis. Google Inc.

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Wise Economic Decision Making

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Their intricate mathematical models largely failed to predict the 2008 financial crisis. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 17, 2011. Economists, especially those who purport to understand the workings of the macroeconomy, have been kicked in the teeth during the past few years. employment won't return to normal for years.

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A Global Standard of Living Shift

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This vulnerability was highlighted in mid-2008 when oil prices soared and consumer spending promptly tanked. Source: The Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2011. The globalization of the labor force continues to exert pressure on the U.S. job market even as it pushes up commodity prices by expanding the middle class world-wide.

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Holding Powerful & Arrogant Bosses Accountable

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When Bank of America took over in 2008, Winston was let go. Source: The New York Times, February 20, 2011. Winston’s witnesses had credibility and the documentation kind of supported his testimony.”. “ The acquisition by Bank of America provided an opportunity to drop him off the cliff,” Mr. Usher said.

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Must Job Seekers Give Employers a Reason to Reject Them?

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Back in 2011, for instance, a federal court found that Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing retailer, discriminated when it rejected a Muslim job seeker who interviewed in a headscarf, or hijab. Nonetheless, in 2008 Heather Cooke, an Abercrombie hiring manager in Tulsa, Okla.,

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