October 5, 2010

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Orrick and Akin Gump Head Their Separate Ways
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Kilpatrick Stockton Merges with California Law Firm
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Reed Smith confirms merger talks with Thompson & Knight
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"He said he had worked too long and too hard for a lousy $41 million"
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NY Bankruptcy Boss Switches Firms
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TARP Ends and Treasury Hires 13 Firms to Run What Remains
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Cadwalader Biggest Beneficiary as Treasury Adds Firms to Help Run TARP
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Think Firms Care About Morale?
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Attorney Who Impersonated Fellow Lawyer Loses Appeal
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Corruption Alive and Well in Legal Systems Across the Globe
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Fla. AG Can’t Probe Law Firms in ‘Foreclosure Mill’ Investigation, Judge Says
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In Fosamax Case, $8 Million Award Reduced and Attorney Sanctioned
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Is It All About the Benjamins? A Comparison of Biglaw v. Small Firm Compensation
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Law firms – actually doing better with women than the banks
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Document Review To $12 An Hour
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Some Reasons Why Picking a Law Firm Partner to Be GC Could Be a Mistake
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Trio reprise roles as AIG confirms bailout repayment plan
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Law Firm in ‘Deliberate, Willful & Flagrant’ Contempt Fined $49K for Missing Foreclosure Hearings
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Firm sets up vendor panel for outsourced business demanded by clients
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More Clues to Explain the Growing Ranks of Dissatisfied Lawyers
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Bombs Explode at Home of 2 Partners in Law Firm that Was Site of Unsolved Murder
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Winstead selects new chairman and CEO
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Lexis Advance for Solos: What It Is... What It Does... And, Yes... Even What It Costs
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97 BigLaw Firms Get Perfect Scores on LGBT Issues
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Law Student Suffers from ‘Toasted Skin Syndrome’ Due to Laptop Use
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Law Prof’s ‘Market Solution’ to Laptop Ban: Auction Right to Surf From Back Row of Class
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‘Die Hard’ Director Gets 12 Months for Lying to Feds in Hollywood PI Wiretap Case
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Steptoe and Johnson Takes the Stand to Complain About Burger Fumes
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Will the Duke ---- List Lead to Lawsuits?
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Half of 911 calls in Miami are for things like cold burgers, broken toilets
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Judges:

Kagan's First Question As a Supreme Court Justice Comes In . . . A Bankruptcy Case
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Transcript in Ransom Oral Arguments
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Justice Kagan makes her mark on day one, then has to go
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On Her First Day, Justice Kagan Dives Into the Fray
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Supreme Court's term puts business cases front and center
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Contemplating the 'Most Conservative' Supreme Court in Years
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Exotic Dancer’s Tip Links Federal Judge, 67, to Drug & Firearms Case
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Did Judge Jack Camp Pitch His Tent in Forbidden Ground?
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Stevens Says Supreme Court Will Eventually ‘Straighten Itself Out’
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Wall Street:

 

U.S. stocks slump with earnings, jobs in view
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Banks Agree on Plan to Resolve Stock Trades After a Default
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Layoffs:

 

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Bankruptcy Vendors:

Epiq Systems Acquires Leading Bankruptcy Creditor Software Company
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Retailing:

American Apparel Saved From Bankruptcy
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Trucking:

Proposed Settlement in Arrow Driver Suit Would Pay $1.58 Million
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M&A:

Global M&A Hits Pre-Lehman Bankruptcy Levels
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Politics:

Is The Tea Party Movement Good For Businesses?
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Fear and Favor
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Autos:

GM pays out $1.3M in stock to current and ex-CEOs
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Will GM's IPO Really Happen?
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Cerberus's Tower Automotive Plans $122.2 Million IPO
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Toyota Sued by Allstate for Acceleration-Caused Claims
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Debt Collection:

Legal Collection Firm Loses $23.7 Million Judgment
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Economy:

Bernanke Says More Fed Asset Purchases Could Help
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Bernanke warns of high budget deficits
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Fed Bond Buying's Unintended Effect May Boost Rates
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Factory orders dropped in August
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IMF: The West is Stuck Near Depression
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World Economy Decoupling from US
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Companies Start Buying Again
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Obama’s promise to end tax cuts for rich unravels
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Wealthy in US prepare for tax hikes
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Uh, Oh! The Rich Are Buying Gold Again
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Warren: TARP is Not a Victory Yet
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Measures of TARP
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Do TARP Repayments Reduce The Deficit?
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More aggressive bank supervision needed: IMF
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America needs stimulus not virtue
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Gundlach Sees `No Normal' While Beating Bill Gross Since 1995
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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:

Pending Home Sales Don't Move The Needle
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One in Five Borrowers Will Default
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Citigroup, Ally Sued for Racketeering Over Database
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Foreclosure crisis enters new phase
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Merkley Wants Independent Investigation of Foreclosure Fraud
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Brown Demands JP Morgan Chase Suspend Foreclosures Unless It Can Demonstrate Compliance with California Law
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O'Malley calls on mortgage firms to temporarily stop foreclosures in Md.
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Grayson explains the foreclosure fraud crisis
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More Foreclosure Document Problems: Are Cram Downs the Answer?
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Bank exec checked only date on foreclosure docs
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Title Shares Suffer Foreclosure Fallout
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Title Insurers Pause in Robosigning Scandal
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The importance of getting it right the first time
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Foreclosure Relief Could Help Economy and End Chaos Faced By Borrowers
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Shapiro & Fishman win key ruling in foreclosure investigation
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Why sloppy foreclosure process could undermine Florida
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Wells Fargo to meet with people facing foreclosure
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JPMorgan Chase to offer mortgage help to Michigan unemployed
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Chicago: Ahead of LA and NYC in foreclosures
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Moody's puts BofA mortgage servicer ratings on review for downgrade
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Slowing the Runaway Foreclosure Train
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In a bid to unload foreclosures , Fannie Mae showers thousands on buyers, brokers
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RMBS buybacks expected to increase due to robo-signing
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Stuyvesant foreclosure auction adjourned
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Never Underestimate Wily Bill Ackman
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More school kids Affected by foreclosures
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The Racial Politics of Foreclosure
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Mortgage Modification Bailout Distorts Housing Market
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Portion of Rarity Oaks going back to bank
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Former Head Of NH Mortgage Firm Pleads Guilty
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The Highest Property Tax Burdens
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QE2 may be coming but will a mortgage pricing war follow?
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CalPERS replaces its realty management firm
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Lawyer Fights $276 in Late Fees & Foreclosure Threat, Over a Penny
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Wondering How Lenders Are Making Up for Missing Credit Card Fees? Check Your Home Escrow
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Credit Cards:

U.S. Reaches Deal in Credit-Card Antitrust Suit
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DOJ Settlement With Visa Shifts Incentives War To Merchants
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How to Stop Rogue Automatic Payments
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Municipalities:

CA High Court Upholds Schwarzenegger Furloughs
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Removing Obstacles to Municipal Bailouts
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Cities in Debt Turn to States, Adding Strain
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Vallejo bankruptcy challenge on hold
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Aviation:

Bankruptcy trustee asks to sell some Pace assets
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Oil/Gas:

Problems plague BP's oil spill compensation fund
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Newspapers:

Tribune deadline nears
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Horticulture:

International Garden Products Files
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Lehman:

Lehman Sale Blank Check May Haunt Judge at Barclays Deal Trial
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Symphonies:

Cost of DSO too rich for Detroit
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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 Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Personal Bankruptcy Filings Jump
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South Florida bankruptcy filings fall 1.6% in September
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Restructuring Pros Mark Bankruptcy Reform's 5th Birthday
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Miscellaneous:

Car Deduction, Tousa, Tribune, International Garden, Loehmann: Bankruptcy
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Sales:

Sales or Plans: A Comparative Account of the ‘New’ Corporate Reorganization – Version 2.0
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Media:

ION Resurrects Ratings After Bankruptcy Scares
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Media Industry Struggles as Power Shifts to Consumers
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Fraud:

Stanford asks judge to dismiss criminal charges
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Mets owner still affected by Madoff scheme
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Supreme Court to not hear Rigas appeal
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Doeren Mayhew Ponzi case progresses
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Federal indictment: 11 Alabama casino owners, state senators, lobbyists bought votes
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Defense in Insider Trading Case Challenges Wiretap Application
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Rogue Trader at Société Générale Sentenced to Prison
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Copetas Says Kerviel to Live `Under The Thumb' of France
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Health Care:

Hospital district faces $80 million hit by privatizing
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Trio to buy Brooklyn nursing homes from SVCMC
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Sunrise Senior Living sells interest in 58 properties to Ventas
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Resorts:

Tamarack Homeowners Now Await Only a Judge's OK to Run Ski Lifts This Winter
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Newspapers:

Unions Reportedly Agree on Philly Newspaper Terms,
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Banking:

Tracking Bank Failures: Regulators Seize the 25th Bank in Florida
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Analyst's Street-Level View of Citi
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Celebs:

Salahi's Polo Company Enters Bankruptcy
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Insurance:

Life settlement firm files Chapter 11
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Accounting:

Two Accounting Firms To Pay $1.7 Million To Settle CFTC Charges
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Regulator starts probe into PwC and E&Y
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PwC Recruits Undergrads on LinkedIn
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PwC takes $26.6bn in global revenues
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AIG:

‘Lot More Demand Than You Think’ For AIG Stock, CEO Says
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Breaking Even on A.I.G.
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Tax:

Accused Tax Cheat Cohen Denies Owning New York Hotel
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EU:

Services PMI eases U.K. double-dip fears
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Ireland:

Ireland’s taxpayers have shouldered too much
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Moody's warns of Irish downgrade as recovery falters
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Ireland's Austerity Program was Bogus
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Spain:

Spanish Soccer's $800 Million in Unpaid Tax `Contaminates' Public Finances
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Chile:

Miners protest in Chile over unpaid salaries
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Switzerland:

Swiss propose 'too big to fail' rules for banks
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Greece:

Greece Presents Austerity Budget for 2011
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Poland:

Orbis's bankruptcy could pull down other firms
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Number of insolvency petitions grows
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