Law:
$1.6M Award Upheld for Lawyer Who Sued His Firm for Fees
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Cybersquatting Former Client Vexes Lawyers
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Law Firm Hamburger War Heats Up
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Lawyer Found Dead in Home After Suicidal Gunman Shoots at Downtown Indy Firm
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Blagojevich Retrial Set For Early Next Year
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Paul Weiss and Lowenstein Sandler Fined for Alleged Frivolous Suit
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Law School Dispenses iPads, Touts Downtime Study Opportunity
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Associate Finds Creative Way to Look Like He Belongs
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"Untalented, over-educated, over-credentialed snobs who really can't do anything"
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Behavioral Interviewing Gains Momentum in Law Firm Hiring
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Zenovia Evans On MSNBC, 'Looking Thinner'
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Bird & Bird hides "dozens" of layoffs
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Weil Gotshal lawyers find out they're not qualified. Doh!
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Billionaire Bren Owes Adult Kids Zip, Jury Rules; They Had Sought $134M in Child Support
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Auctioned Blagojevich Items Included Attorney-Client Papers
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Lawyer: I Had Sex with Client at Her Home and in My Office, But Not in Courthouse Law Library
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Weight Discrimination Suit at Hooters Proceeds
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Citing Attorney's Inflammatory Language, Court Erases Most of Jury Verdict
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Bitter divorce battle over Chihuahua
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Ex-MoFo Partner Arrested in Alleged Autism Fraud
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"Impaired alertness"
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Judges:
Is Prop 8 Judge’s Sexual Orientation Relevant? LA Times Editor Thinks So
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Federal Judge's Ruling Sets Landscape for 'Kids-for-Cash' Civil Suits
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Wall Street:
Futures Rise Modestly Ahead of Bernanke Speech
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Stock Losses Deepen
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Dow drops below 10,000
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Goldman Sachs struggles in corporate debt underwriting
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Layoffs:
For Workers Who Find Jobs, Lower Wages
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Jobless claims dip for first time in a month
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Joblessness in America: A stickier problem - America’s jobs woes cannot be cured just by waiting for economic recovery
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Health Care:
Methadone Clinic Files for Bankruptcy
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CA OKs 20% rate hike for Blue Cross; Blue Shield to jump as much as 29%
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New Facility Won't Use St. Vincent's Site
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Celebs:
5 Famous People Who Went Famously Broke
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Fame Brief: Is the Giudices’ $60K Post-Bankruptcy Spree Legal?
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Jurisdiction:
Decision in Eclipse Aviation addresses subject matter jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court
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Pensions:
PBGC proposes new security requirements for cessation of operations
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Fraud:
Alleged Mobster Admits to Helping Florida Lawyer Rothstein in Ponzi Scheme
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Lawyers: Texas Financier Didn't Tap Investor Money
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Stanford's Bank Said to Loan Billions Undisclosed
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Witness questions bank's lending to Stanford
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Stanford Used Skimmed $1.6 Billion For Loans To Start-Ups, Witness Says
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Stanford financial reports were "fictional," witness says
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Allen Stanford's Execs Knew He Was Bilking Investors: Witness
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How's Hecker funding lavish lifestyle?
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Preacher scolded by judge in fraud case
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American Express says alleged Ponzi schemer Kenneth Starr is a deadbeat, slaps him with suit
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Four in Pa. Charged in Agency-Related $7.5M Pyramid Scheme
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SEC Wins $20 Million Judgment Against FTC Capital
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Central Florida abounds in Ponzi schemes
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Sobbing swindler: "I knew what I was doing was wrong"
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How To Avoid Being Lied To
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Bail hearing is scheduled in massive NJ fraud case
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Mahmoud Karkehabadi has been charged for Bernie Madoff-like fraud
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Fraud Case Shows Credit Boom's Dark Side
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Accounting:
Deloitte revenues and profit decline
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There Are More Than a Few Texans Who Aren't Impressed with Ernst & Young’s Auditing Abilities
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A Brief Moment in the Life of a Big 4 Auditor
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Ernst & Young Partner Might Be Hiding Emmy Results Under His Pillow, Fails to Land Groupies
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Symphonies:
For teetering DSO, change is only certainty
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Economy:
New jobless claims drop for first time in 4 weeks
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U.S. Millionaire Index Turns Sharply Bearish
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Firm Bets on Falling Prices
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Ins, Outs of Jackson Hole Fed Meeting
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Fed Asks Court to Stay Discount-Window Disclosure Ruling
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Fed's Hoeing: We're in Modest Recovery
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How An Even Slower Recovery Would Feel
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S&P: USA Should Act to Protect AAA-Rating
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Economic Stress Map
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Recovery Index
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Bailout Tracker
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Real Estate:
New Foreclosure Strategy Attacks Affidavits' Validity
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US foreclosures fall but new delinquencies up
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Overdue home loans fall in 2nd quarter
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Nearly 1m More Mortgages Go From Current to Delinquent
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Procrastination on Foreclosures, Now 'Blatant,' May Backfire
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Mortgage Rates Fall to 4.3%
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The Really Ugly Part Of The Existing Home Sales Number: Housing Inventory
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Mortgage Finance Players Begin to Measure the "Shadow" Shadow Inventory
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One in 10 mortgage holders face foreclosure
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Mortgage rates still falling
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The Case Against Homeownership
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New Home Sales Tumble: Builders Don’t Know What To Do
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A Homebuilder's Strategy For Coping With Housing Doldrums: Buy More Land!
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Attorney Pays $1 Million to Settle Allegation of Foreclosure Relief Fraud
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New Jersey Tops Area in Failing Mortgages
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A Big Surprise: Troubled Assets Garner Rewards
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Fewer Economists See Home Prices Gaining in 2010
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Lender slams EpiCentre finances: Regions Bank asks bankruptcy court to appoint examiner to probe center's books: 'Where did all the money go?'
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Judge: EpiCentre lawyers must return money
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Ackman’s hedge fund put $40M into StuyTown joint venture
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Mother Teresa vs. the Empire State Building
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Massachusetts AG Coakley gets judgment against unlawful foreclosure rescue scheme
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Don’t Compare Toll Brothers to Tiffany & Co.
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Banco Popular Forecloses on Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina
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What Commercial Landlords and Chamillionaire Have in Common
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REIT Defaults May Be All Right
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Aviation:
FAA fines American Airlines $24M for safety lapses
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American to fight record $24.2M FAA fine
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Is This Anyway to Treat Your Customers?
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JAL Postpones Management Shake Up
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Airline in bankruptcy protection
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Global Air Cargo Jumps 22.4% in July
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Banking:
Banks' Self-Dealing, Fake Demand Made Financial Crisis Much Worse
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Can't Bair to listen
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Newspapers:
Under pressure, Tribune Co. to file revised restructuring plan
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Tribune Co. has $1.6 bln in cash in bankruptcy
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Tribune Meets Lenders Opposing Publisher's Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan
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Eisner would be a mistake for Tribune
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Why Michael Eisner Fits At Tribune
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Can Michael Eisner Save Newspapers?
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From The Mouse To The Tower?
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A top Comcast official eyed to help run Tribune Co.
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Time running short for Tribune Co. management
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Retailing:
Wilmington Trust Clarifies Role in Oriental Trading Company, Inc. Bankruptcy Case
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Moody's downgrades Oriental Trading after Ch. 11
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Ascena Puts Dress Barn Out to Pasture
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American Apparel Faces Third Class-Action Suit in Two Weeks
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Why American Apparel Has a Bright, Post- Bankruptcy Future
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Horse Racing:
Centaur decision could come soon
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Meeting set on stalled Lawrence County racino
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Awards:
Deirdre Ruckman Selected for ‘World’s Leading Women in Business Law’ Guide
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Equity:
A closer look at the equitable power of the Bankruptcy Court
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Oil/Gas:
On Doomed Rig's Last Day, A Divisive Change of Plan
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Gulf Seafood Is Perfectly Safe -- But Americans Are Refusing To Eat It
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Federal Oil Panel Frustrated by Answers
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Corporate Reform:
Dodd Questions Elizabeth Warren's Management Experience -- A Concern He's Never Raised Before
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Dodd's continuing, and unusual, war against Elizabeth Warren
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Does Obama’s Aide Valerie Jarrett Give Elizabeth Warren the Inside Track?
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Lehman:
Bro-Hugging Richard Fuld
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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Bankruptcy Research:
Study Shows Massive Increase in Consumer Bankruptcy Costs
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Bankruptcy Reform:
How BAPCPA Has "Flown Back in the Banks' Faces Good and Hard"
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Miscellaneous:
The Bankruptcy Files: Party Supplies, Marine Services, and Retail Banking
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Visteon, Strauss, Centaur, ProtoStar, Pine Canyon, Children: Bankruptcy
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Mass Torts:
Reinsurer to appeal Travelers' asbestos coverage award
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Insurance:
Ambac Financial to withdraw registration statement
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Litigation:
Federal Judge Sanctions Tech Company Over Handling of E-Discovery
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BP Suits to Show Challenge of Taming Discovery
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Autos:
Auto sales rebound sputters
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What GM Can Learn From Lee Iacocca
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Pension time bomb: The shadow hanging over GM's turnaround
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China’s SAIC shows interest in GM float
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Auto Industry M&A Market Slowly Picks Up
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Tax:
U.S. to end tax case soon against UBS
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Swiss halfway done giving UBS account info to US
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Pro-Israel Group Claims IRS Discrimination
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Fate of more than 100 tax breaks on the line
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Big Tax Cut For Workers Set To Expire
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Food/Drink:
Judge recommends $12M settlement on bad peanuts
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Creditors drop appeal to Bashas reorganization plan
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Video Rentals:
The business behind the show
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Blockbuster Plans Mid-September Bankruptcy
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Consumer Finance:
Payday and Title Loans are Short-term? If Only it Were True
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Compensation:
CEOs Pay to Fly
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Hotels:
Crowne Plaza in Bankruptcy
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Hedge Funds:
Investors in Collapsed Perot Hedge Fund Sue Auditor
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Private Equity:
Post-Credit Crisis Buyouts Get Creative
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Software:
Bankruptcy court approves sale of SCO's software business
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Resorts:
Bankruptcy judge approves Amelia Island Plantation sale
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Credit Cards:
Surprise slowdown in US credit card losses
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Banks Lobby Fed on Debit Card Fee Limits
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UK:
Polly Peck Tycoon Asil Nadir Back In UK: Businessman On Run For 17 Years Over Fair Fraud Trial Fears
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Tough US tax proposals could cost British companies millions
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UK Employers Finding It Hard to Fill Key Job Vacancies Today, Says KPMG
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EU:
Amidst debt crisis, support for EU drops to 6-year low, poll shows
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Canada:
Ontario, like California, going for broke
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AbitibiBowater deal was 'the best settlement we could get': Harper
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Canadians Mount Up, Head to Phoenix to Buy Homes
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Greece:
Greek tax evader hunt uses home videos
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China:
Lenders to closely monitor property loans
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Chile:
While miners wait, company is on brink of bankruptcy
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Chile mine collapse: $1.8 million ordered set aside for compensation
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Croatia:
'Croatia is not Greece and is not facing bankruptcy'
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