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		<title>How to Guarantee a Good Impression in a Job Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; There is one thing that always makes a good impression in a job interview.  However, this thing is almost always overlooked and taken for granted, especially in situations where a solid first impression is a must. This one thing, is a smile. Even though a smile seems to be such a simple thing, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Groupon’s Billion Dollar Valuation Soon Be a Flop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccurwick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[facebook copies groupon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; With copycats launching their own version of the Groupon concept in every U.S. city, will the company soon be sorry they didn’t take Google’s six billion dollar offer? Even Facebook, with its Facebook Deals launched in April, is stealing the idea. (Since Facebook is on a roll stealing ideas anyway….cough, cough&#8230;why not?) By now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Jobs Will Eventually Become Globalized?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccurwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget about going to college to study graphic design or computer programming anymore! These are just two of the thousands of jobs that now face cutthroat, global competition, even from companies based in the U.S. Of course this comes as no shock.  We all watched companies like Dell outsource nearly all of its technical support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview With a Banker: The Truth About Banks and Lending</title>
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		<comments>http://thinktankinvesting.com/interview-with-a-banker-the-truth-about-banks-and-lending-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccurwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I convinced a banker friend to submit to an anonymous interview with me.  I agreed to keep the dialogue in the interview completely confidential and anonymous.  For this reason, he was able to admit some pretty shocking things to me. Things that bankers just can’t talk about or admit, without the risk of losing their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seth Godin Prophesizes About the Future of Your “Job” (You Should Read This)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccurwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin gave a powerful presentation in Salt Lake City on February 12, 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Marriage Between China and America Destined for Divorce?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccurwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard economic historian, Niall Ferguson on a Harvard Business School podcast back in July. One of the topics of the interview with Ferguson was “Chimerica,” a term he uses to describe the co-dependent relationship between the U.S. and China.  Ferguson posted another short article on his blog at the end of August titled, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Retail Dying?</title>
		<link>http://thinktankinvesting.com/is-retail-dying</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccurwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is retail really dying after all? All industries are getting annihilated in retail. Fewer buyers are walking the trade show floors and many manufacturers too are throwing in the towel. These days, it’s hard to imagine a world without discount internet sites where product is sold at a deep, deep discount off of its retail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Descent of Money</title>
		<link>http://thinktankinvesting.com/the-descent-of-money</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccurwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the weekly pod casts that I subscribe to is called, &#8220;Harvard Business IdeaCast.&#8221;Last week&#8217;s pod cast was worth blogging about, as it featured an interview with Niall Ferguson, Harvard Business School Professor and Oxford Economic Historian. Niall Ferguson, an expert in international financial markets, discussed an article he wrote, that also appeared in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the U.S. Dollar Destined for Same Fate as the Argentinean Peso?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccurwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Americans have no idea what happened to the Peso in Argentina less than eight years ago. In 2001, the Argentinean people feared the worst and began to withdraw large sums of money from their bank accounts, causing a run on the banks. The government quickly enacted measures (informally known as the Corralito) that froze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession Not Completely to Blame for Massive Store Closings</title>
		<link>http://thinktankinvesting.com/recession-not-completely-to-blame-for-massive-store-closings</link>
		<comments>http://thinktankinvesting.com/recession-not-completely-to-blame-for-massive-store-closings#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccurwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new economy was officially ushered in ten years ago when the Internet began to become a part of everyday life.  Well, duh. Doesn&#8217;t everyone know that by now? However, the largest changes have occurred so gradually, so slowly, and so many of them we are only seeing now.  One example is that many publicly [...]]]></description>
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