June 7, 2010

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Law:

Winston & Strawn Lawyer Revealed as 'Associate-4' in Starr Case
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Asarco Fee Fight Heats Up
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WaMu's bankruptcy expenses top $100M
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Last Week in Biglaw
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Legal Sector Sees an Uptick in Job Gains
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Law Jobs Still Lacking: Legal Sector Lost 22,200 in a Year, But Added 300 Last Month
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Women Ringmasters for the BigLaw Circus
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Some Lawyers Take Things So Personally
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Chicago investor Greenblatt blasted in appellate ruling targeting his lawyers too
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Leader Who Changed Firm by Jettisoning Deadwood, Focusing on High-End Work Steps Down
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Calif. Attorneys Sanctioned Over Loan Modification Services
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The Next National Investment Craze: Lawsuits!
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Dechert Announces New Dual Leadership
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Will Akin Gump Memo Affect Wal-Mart Sex-Discrimination Suit?
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Small NY Firm Loses Bid to Hold BigLaw Rival Responsible in Malpractice Flap
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Major Law Firm Looks to ‘85 Broads’ for Female Attorney Empowerment
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Firm Loses Indemnification Bid in Malpractice Suit
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Hours Billed: Survey Results
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Catching Up With Poli-Sci Teacher Alberto Gonzales
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Should Women Avoid Carrying Birkins to Work?
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Pls Hndle Thx: The FAQs
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2Ls Talk About Struggle for Summer Jobs
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"She would be very attractive in a burka"
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A Defense Lawyer Who’s Not Afraid of a Fight
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Lawyer Got 25 Years for Brokering Hit on Client’s Husband But ‘Black Widow’ Gets Only 12 years
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Judges:

Spill suits may be hard to judge
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Kagan helped defend late-term abortion ban veto
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Affirmative action good law -- good politics
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Clinton Library Begins Releasing Kagan Records
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Support for Kagan Lags Other Supreme Court Nominees
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Suspect Arrested in Slaying of Magistrate and Court Clerk
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Fairness, Empathy and the 'Interfering' Judge
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Looking for a Job? Wanna Be a Judge?
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N.J. Governor's Judicial Advisory Unit Resigns in Wake of Judge's Ouster
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High Court Justices Turn Out for 'Thurgood' Play
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Wall Street:

US Stock-Index Futures Decline
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Markets Brace for Rocky Week
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European Stocks Follow Asian Markets’ Decline
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Wall Street hit by jobs data and European worries - Lowest close since February
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U.S. Indexes Fall Sharply on Jobs Data
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Market Volatility Scaring Companies on IPOs
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Investor Fund Flows Have Never Been This Bearish Since Lehman Collapsed
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Layoffs:

Government Jobs Account for 95% of Job Increases
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Census Purposely Over-Hired As 'Cost-Saving Measure'
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Reaction to Jobs Report: Disappointing
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Longer Unemployment Spell = Less Hope
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Goodbye to Full Time Jobs with Benefits
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Wal-Mart to Hire 500,000
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Two Reasons Why You Shouldn't Bank On A Private Sector Jobs Rebound
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Jobs Report: The Young and the Cheerless
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The Mass Exodus From The Workforce
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Growing ranks of long-term jobless face long odds
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107,000 Floridians Lost Jobless Checks Friday
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In Search of the Ideal Jobless Rate
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Newspapers:

Hedge funds gain clout in newspaper industry
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Tribune Co. bankruptcy plan to go to creditors
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Hawaii's Largest, Oldest Newspaper Closes
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Gambling:

Judge hangs tough in Station bankruptcy
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Paterson Aide to Lead OTB After Its Chairman Quits
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Reasons for the Decline of Horse Racing
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Hotels:

Smaller hotels file for bankruptcy
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Museums:

Stage Is Set for Hollywood Museum Showdown
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Business Development:

ACAS may pay bondholders up to $100 mln
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Tech:

Boston Data Center Files Chapter 11
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Finance:

Small firms still struggling to acquire affordable loans
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Ben Bernanke Lessons from the Gulf
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Financial Literacy:

Tooth Fairy payout helps kids learn about money
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Golf:

River Vale Country Club sale put on hold by “involuntary” bankruptcy effort
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Apparel:

Japan Distributor Orrizonti Goes Bankrupt
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Theme Parks:

Companies push court for music park rulings
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Economy:

U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP
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May: 9.7% Unemployment
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For Many, Recovery Means Lower Expectations
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Banks Say No. Too Bad Taxpayers Can’t.
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U.S. Debt Nears Key Threshold
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Stimulus? Millions for massage schools
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Credit Index: Recovery Grinding to Halt
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G20: Long Life Fiscal Austerity
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Paul Krugman: Lost Decade, Here We Come
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Economic Stress Index
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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:

May Home-Buying Activity Looks Worse Than Expected
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Did Fannie and Freddie Cause the Housing Bubble?
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Real estate developers forced to file personal bankruptcy as loan guarantees on failed projects hit home
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Why Banks Try to Make Borrowers Feel Like Sinners When They Can't Pay off Their Mortgages
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15 States Where Foreclosures Are Still Surging
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Short sales of homes surging in Detroit area
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The CRA Zombie
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Homeownership Dream in Decline, Says Survey
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Developer's bankruptcy questioned
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Foreclosures go wrong as lenders, cleanup crews cut legal corners
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Oil/Gas:

DOJ Criminal Probe of Oil Spill Could Hang Up Civil Suits
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E-Discovery Nightmare Arises on BP's Horizon
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BP Faces Ban on Future US Operations
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Watch BP Closely Now
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BP Could Make Millions from Runaway Well
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BP has paid more than $48 million in claims, so far
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Insurers Gain Reasons to Up Rates
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Crude gushes from cap; only a fraction captured
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Cap Slows Loss of Oil, but Engineers Move Cautiously
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Cap Reported to Recover 10,000 Barrels of Oil a Day
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BP Increases Oil-Capture Rate; US Braces for Siege
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Live feed shows crude still pouring out
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Officials Simmer Over BP Recovery Efforts
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Obama Warns BP on Paying Dividends
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BP’s CEO Hasn't Spoken Directly With Obama About Leak
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Obama vs. Oil; Chaos vs. Control
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Shallow-Water Drilling Halted Until Plans Resubmitted
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Interior Dept retracts and stops MMS rescission of "shallow water" drilling
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Gulf Lawmakers Plead With Obama to Ease Drilling Ban, Warn of Economic Blow
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Obama Warns BP: ‘No Nickel and Diming’
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Comparing White House, BP Rhetoric
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BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill
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Unclear Who Was in Charge of Rig
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BP's Oil Spill Costs Climb Into the Billions (and Billions)
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Oil Cleanup Could Extend Into Fall
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Oil spill's threat to wildlife turns real
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The coast is clear in Mississippi, governor says
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Oil Stains Beaches And Tourists As Slick Spreads
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BP Spill Consequences Grow
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National Incident Commander on BP Oil Spill: 'It's an Insidious War'
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Are tweets of oil soaked birds this era's "The Jungle"?
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Myth Busters: Natural seeps aren't as bad as Macondo well leak
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Man arrested for swimming in oil
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Note to BP: Don't Forget the Clean Water Act
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A Movement Prepares: Goodbye, Limitless Oil
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The dangerous new era of "extreme energy"
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Exxon Execs Warn Against Curbs on Deepwater Drilling
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T. Boone: Get Ready for $400 Oil
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Oil extends losses to near $70 as stocks sink
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Oceaneering cuts '10 profit view by as much as 14%
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Flying J close to emerging from bankruptcy
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Committees:

A-Rod Named to Rangers Creditors Committee
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Autos:

A year after bankruptcy, a new GM
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G.M. Draws Ire for Gift of Corvette
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Chrysler prevails in most dealer arbitrations
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Johnson Controls remains interested in Visteon despite rejected bid
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Shake-ups, missteps level auto playing field
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Celebs:

Rapper Chamillionaire Ridin’ Into Foreclosure on Houston Mansion
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NJ 'Housewife' Teresa Giudice Files for Bankruptcy, Owes Millions
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'Real Housewives' Dina Manzo says Teresa Giudice's bankruptcy is bull
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A-Rod Steps into Rangers Bankruptcy Fray
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Bergstein seeks to stop forced deposition
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Tax:

2 Lawyers Convicted in Federal Tax Fraud Conspiracy Case
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Crunch Vote Looms for Swiss-US Deal in UBS Tax Row
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Businesses can expect to tell IRS about suppliers
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Libel:

Sender Who E-Mailed Links to Blog Post Open to Defamation Claim, Bankruptcy Court Rules
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Art:

Lehman Brothers' Art Collection Goes on the Block
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 new opinions today)

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 Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Reform:

Unions push to protect workers hit by corporate bankruptcies
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Student Debt:

A Move to Ease Student Debt Burden
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Why Bankruptcy Won't Rid You of Student Loans
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Health Care:

Without COBRA subsidy, health care would require 79% of jobless benefits
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Corporate Reform:

Financial Overhaul: Faces of Affected
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Reform Unlikely to Prevent a New Financial Crisis
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Congress Pressed for Reform Bill Deal
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Financial Overhaul's Likely Impact on Wall Street
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How Financial Overhaul Stands to Affect Consumers
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Pensions:

Brace yourself for Social Security reform
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Banking:

Banks Seized by Regulators in Nebraska, Mississippi, Illinois
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WaMu bankruptcy: spotlight on documents
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Personal Finance:

Blended Families Face a Thicket of Financial and Emotional Issues
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No-interest, no-payments credit card leads to no - chicagotribune.com
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Religion:

Bankruptcy Order Allows Priest Abuse Trials
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Fraud:

Madoff in Profanity-Laced Tirade on Victims
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Bernie Madoff Seen as Success Story Among Inmates in Prison
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Bernie Madoff, Free at Last
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Auction of Scott Rothstein’s Stuff Yields Millions
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Getting Even at a Bankruptcy Auction
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Investors Buy Madoff Recovery Claims with Hope to Score Big
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Kerviel Gets Day in Court, as Does SocGen
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Stanford Defense Becomes Legal Circus
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Accused French rogue trader Kerviel to stand trial
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Untangling a Ponzi Scheme With a Hollywood Twist
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Miscellaneous:

WaMu, General Growth, Hawkeye, Abitibi: Bankruptcy
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10 Companies Back From the Brink
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Sports:

Alaska Dome operators file for bankruptcy
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Municipalities:

Build America Bonds May Push Cities to Bankruptcy
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Rating Cut by Fitch on Wealthiest U.S. State
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Public libraries besieged by budget cuts
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Cash-Strapped CA to Build $1M 'Fish Ladder'
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Bankruptcy bill deserves veto pen
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State pension system willing to help Vallejo with shortfall
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10 States Where An Absurd Percentage Of The Population Works For The Government
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Aviation:

Airlines Loaded with Billions in New Debt
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Global Airline Industry Forecast to Turn a Profit in 2010
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Insurance:

Ambac-Guaranteed Debt Initially Valued at 27.5 Cents
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Credit Cards:

Q1 Credit Card Direct-Mail Solicitations Soar
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Payday Lending:

Be Wary of Payday Loans
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AIG:

Bankers should take blame for Pru's failed AIA deal
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UK:

Banned broker faces bankruptcy for failing to pay £2.8m fine
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Pompey needed an 'honest man'
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Lloyds shareholders launch £14 billion claim over HBOS
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Man Utd owners facing £1.1bn debt
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EU:

Euro zone faces zero growth
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Euro falls further on debt, Hungary worries
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Banks Park Record Amount At ECB Deposit Facility
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Euro 'will be dead in five years'
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Debtors’ Prism: Who Has Europe’s Loans?
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This Flight to Safety Wasn’t Supposed to Happen
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Germany joins EU austerity drive with €10bn cuts
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Canada:

AbitibiBowater Sells Golf Course To Quebec Town
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Hungary:

Hungary Warns of Greek-Style Crisis
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Hungary's deficit talk rattles financial markets
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Hungary, Despite Comparisons, Is No Greece
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Hungary Is Playing Political Games on Debt
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Greece:

Greeks blame corruption, tax evasion for economic woes
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China:

More Chinese Expect Housing Prices to Decline, Survey Shows
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