Law:
A First: Law Firm Finds New Life, Not Death, in Bankruptcy
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Law Firms and Social Media: A Match Not Yet Made in Heaven --- Lockhart, Gardner: Law firm focused on social media
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Suit by Fired Lawyer Claims Law Firm Encouraged Fraud with 3,000-Hour Billable Quota
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Bonus Watch: Paul Weiss Matches --- Ropes & Gray Gets Boston Off to an Early Start --- Davis Polk Matches --- Susman Godfrey bonuses -- it's the most wonderful time of the year --- Slim associate bonuses fatten law partner profits
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Clients Pushing for Change? Don't Be Silly!
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Herbies slashes equity to attain magic profit figure
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K&L Gates opens 40th office
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AT&T, HSBC-MF Global, BP, Sabre, Apple, AMR in Court News
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Building A Practice -- A Case Study
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Enough with the Worthless Networking
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Partners: Necessary suffering
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The Purpose Driven Firm
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Want to Outsource Legal Work? Ohio as Cheap as India
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London finance partners criticise FSA calls to hold bank directors personally liable for failures
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SEC Also Looks at General Counsel in Civil Investigation of Hedge Fund
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UT Chancellor Orders Review of Law School Foundation Funds in Wake of Dean’s Resignation
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UC Irvine Announces Better Clerkship Numbers Than Almost Everyone Else
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Law school, a ticket to economic security? Better run the numbers
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King & Spalding Lawyer Received Key Email As Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty Against Stephen McDaniel
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Sorority Sisters Arrested For Stealing Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph
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"The Good Wife" - Justice is a joke in Cook County
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Mug Shots
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Rash Of Unsolved Tuba Thefts
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Cops: Woman Broke Into 27 Homes After Dropping Kids Off At School
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Saudi Arabia executes woman for 'sorcery'
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Judges:
Embattled Texas Lawyer Files Slander Suit Against Suspended Family Court Judge
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Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Supreme Court Posts Opinions Early, Then Removes Them
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Wall Street:
Stock Futures Follow Europe Stocks Higher
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US Stocks Fall on Rating Companies' Comments --- Wall Street tumbles on Europe, Intel's lowered outlook
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The Best and Worst of Wall Street 2012
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Layoffs:
Can America regain most dynamic labor market mantle ?
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Real unemployment rate at 11%
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Jobs Outlook Dims in Most Major Economies: Report
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Jobs needed to reach 8% unemployment rate by November 2012
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More Layoffs Ahead for Financial Industry
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Jefferies Starts Cutting Workers Amid Stock Drop
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How long should we help the unemployed?
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Long Term Jobless Eye Bleak Future
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Extension of Jobless Benefits: What's at Stake
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:
Furniture retailer RoomStore files for Ch.11 bankruptcy protection
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Macy's to Keep Stores Open 24 Hours for Holiday Shopping Homestretch
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Celebs:
MC Hammer sued over back taxes
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Creditors Out For Jermaine Dupri!!! Lamborghini Repossessed!
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Baseball:
Judge says Fox may be able to depose MLB exec
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MF Global:
Jon Corzine: The T-Shirt
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Corzine at MF Global, a hands-on gambler --- Corzine Personally Pushed Big MF Global Bets --- Corzine was banking on bailouts, regulations --- Jon Corzine, rogue trader
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Author Of "House Of Cards" Rips Into Jon Corzine's Cozy Ties To Washington
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Executives seek distance on missing money --- Officials Say They Don't Know Location of Client Funds
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CME won't guarantee funds that remain missing from MF Global --- CME to Customers: Drop Dead --- Chicago traders revolt at change in CME rules
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MF Global and Rehypothecation
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MF Global's US And UK Customers Got Screwed By A Little Thing Called Regulation T
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MF Global Brokerage Trustee Giddens Outlines Rules for Customer Claims
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MF Global Cash at JPMorgan Presumed Its Own, Freeh Says
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Jon Corzine's Second Act
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Farmers will be front and center at MF Global hearing
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Europe's MF Global trade
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George Soros Is Up $130,000,000 On Those Crummy MF Global Bonds He Just Bought
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MF Global and MF Global UK: What Every End-User of Futures and OTC Derivatives Should Be Thinking
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Were The Risks Clear?
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How Financial Reform Helped Destroy MF Global
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CFTC Backs MF Global's $2.1 Billion Payout Before Hearing
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Trucking:
Former Arrow employees to receive second distribution
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Aviation:
American faces first hearing with creditors
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American to Receive New Planes
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Furniture:
KLN Steel gets another extension
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Compensation:
Is clawback the new market standard?
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Economy:
Payroll tax cut: Divide over how to pay for it
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A little better GDP Growth in Q4
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If Fed Opts for More Easing, Price Could Hit $1 Trillion
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US Treasury 3-Year Note Sale Has Strongest Interest In Decades
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Some Economists Speculate Fed Could Trim Discount Rate
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Central bank secrecy datapoint of the day
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The Fed won't tell you which countries borrowed $586B through its swaps program
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More fun and games from the Fed
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Bloomberg News Responds to Bernanke Criticism of Coverage
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Upwards Mobility Harder to Do in America
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NYC: more income inequality than Brazil
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Europe a Preview of What May Happen in US?
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How Spending and Saving Are Changing
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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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Real Estate:
People are not corporations, and financial journalists are not ordinary people
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Principal reduction outpaces short sales under HAMP
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Inflated home sales figures from 2007-10 to be lowered --- Bust to Look Worse With Sales Revised
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Bair refutes claims she will monitor foreclosure deal between AGs, banks
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Florida Supremes: The “Robo-Signing” Show Must Go On
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Nevada: Massive foreclosure fraud's scope revealed by transcripts
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Foreclosures On Pause
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Surging student loan debt threatens homeownership
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Federal agency sues Chicago over vacant property lender rules
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The King of All Vegas Real Estate Scams
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$150 Million Mortgage Fund Ponzi Scheme
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Lehman Brothers estate fighting Zell for Archstone --- US trustee objects to Lehman's hiring of Gleacher for Archstone deal
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DebtX liquidates loans of failed real estate fund
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Investors flock to collateralized mortgage obligations
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Analyst sees bright spots in CMBS
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Alternative Energy:
Solyndra assets slated for December, January auctions
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Newspapers:
Lee files bankruptcy case to complete refinancing
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Newspocalypse 2.0: Another Newspaper Company Is Bankrupt
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Protests:
Occupy the ports --- Protesters blocking gates at West Coast ports, halt operations at some --- Goldman Sachs Target of Occupy Port Protests --- The Protesters March On 'The Vampire Squid' --- They're Just Getting Started
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Word Is Zuccotti Will Be Closed Around Christmas, So Occupy Wall Street Decided There's Only One Thing To Do
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Occupy Harvard Mars Recruiting by Goldman
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Tired Of Occupy Wall Street? Check Out The First-Ever 'Occupy A Desk' Job Fair
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Autos:
Saab to file for bankruptcy : report --- Friday the likely do or die day for Saab --- Saab gets 11th hour payment from China's Youngman
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Aptera's assets going to the auction block next week
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Fraud:
Rajaratnam To Get His Bail Money Back -- Symbolic Victories
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Best Out Of Office Message Ever.
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Sen. Grassley: Hedge Funds May Have Gotten ‘Special Treatment’ From Medicare Administrator
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Bank of New York Mellon Sued by Funds for Negligence Over Madoff Scheme
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Madoff Trustee Sues Credit Suisse to Recover $375 Million
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MF Global Case Exposes JP Morgan COMEX Fraud
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Fair Finance investors object to Brizzi settlement
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Fla. Ponzi scammer begins 2-week lawyer grilling --- Scott Rothstein Reverses Himself on Crucial Facial Hair Issue! --- Judge mulls transcript releases in Fla. Ponzi case
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Battle Heats Up Between Stanford Receiver and Antiguan Liquidators
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Politics:
Gingrich Jabs Romney for His Call to Return Fees to Freddie Mac
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Gingrich Plan to Add $1.3T to Deficit, Study Finds
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The Bobs: A Problem for Mitt Romney
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AP FactCheck: GOP Presidential Debate
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Poll: Little love for big gov
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Health Care:
Creditors meeting in NY dental chain bankruptcy
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Allcare Dental sells off equipment
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Hospital's future in Clark council's hands, judge says
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Television:
Creditors say Roberts Broadcasting transferred $800,000 to other companies
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Debt Collection:
NPR Reports that Debtors Prisons Are Alive and Well
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Illinois Debtors Thrown In Jail: Lisa Madigan Working To Stop Debt Collector Arrest Warrants
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Houston debt collector sued by Texas A-G for claiming law enforcement ties
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Food/Beverage:
GE Cap to get its Round Table Pizza slice
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IP:
Can Righthaven survive latest legal blow?
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Resorts:
Grand Bear has tentative deal on $10 million in debt
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Forest Products:
Sino-Forest Will Miss Earnings Deadline --- Warns of insolvency
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(1 new opinion 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 Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Miscellaneous:
Nebraska Book, Post-Dispatch, MF Global, GenMar: Bankruptcy
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Rochelle on Vitro, Lehman, Syms-Filene's Bankruptcies
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Bankruptcy Filings Drop for 13th Consecutive Month
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Poetry:
American Airlines
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Plan Confirmation:
Delaware Bankruptcy Court Ruling Likely to Complicate Reorganization of Multiple-Debtor Cases
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Bankrupt Hoteliers Take Plans to Supreme Court --- Supreme Court to Weigh 'Meaty and Sexy' Corporate- Bankruptcy Case
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Chapter 13:
The Pretend Solution: An Empirical Study of Bankruptcy Outcomes
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Litigation:
The Edge Act Keeps AIG’s Suit Against Bank of America in Federal Court
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Municipalities:
As the possibility of bankruptcy looms, Mt. Vernon schools to host public forum
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Insurance:
HSBC Bank USA Pulls Out of MBIA Restructuring Lawsuits in New York Court
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British American Creditors To Get 35%
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Corporate Reform:
Majority of Americans would blow whistle-poll
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Banking:
Two Questions: Bank Closures Winding Down? FDIC WaMu Lawsuit Settled?
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WaMu Reaches Settlement Providing for $7 Billion Creditor Payout
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Former WaMu execs agree to settle FDIC lawsuit
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Still Too Big To Fail? --- Part 2
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Pain May Not Be Over for Beaten Down Bank Stocks
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Shipping:
World Fuel's Shares Seen Riding Shipping Bankruptcies
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General Maritime Creditors Balk At Oaktree Restructuring Pact
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Sovereigns:
Industrialized nations' borrowings to pass $10 trillion for year
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UK:
UK: Recession Will be Much Worse
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Sarkozy: We need Britain, but there are now 'two Europes' --- EU plots revenge against Britain
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E&Y appointed Battersea Power Station administrator
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Output hits 29-month low as optimism among UK businesses plummets
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English counties worst hit by bankruptcy revealed
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BBC: Jobless Fears Rise Globally
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Debt-ridden hospitals told to reform to save patients' lives
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Appointment of Administrators - 12 December 2011
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EU:
Fitch Says EU Summit Does Little to Ease Pressure on Debt Crisis --- A 'Comprehensive Solution' To The Euro Crisis Is Just Not On The Table
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Euro zone fiscal pact fails to restore confidence --- Europtimism Didn’t Last Long --- Celebration Succumbs to Concern
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European Banks Hunt for Ways to Increase Capital
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EU Banks Taking Government Cash Seen Sparking ‘Vicious Cycle’
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Europe Crisis Tracker
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Krugman: New Fascism on March in Europe
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JP Morgan: Euro Breakup Speculation to Rise
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What Can Individual Euro Zone Countries Do to Solve Crisis?
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PIIGS:
An Alarming Greek Contingency: What if It Drops the Euro?
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Gov’t plays down need for austerity
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Greek minister hopes for new bailout deal by end January
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Greek Budget Deficit Widens 5.1%
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Greek bank index takes tumble to its lowest since 1989
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STT Said to Seek Eircom Debt Clause in Event of Irish Euro Exit
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Spain's Successful Treasury Auction Delivers Lower Yields
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Spanish Banks on Downgrade Review at Moody’s
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Canada:
Receivers Beware: The “Cost” of Pursuing Assets in Ontario
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Australia:
The Centro schemes: Australia's most complicated restructuring?
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Latvia:
Latvia's Biggest Bank Fights Off Deposit Run
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MENA:
Kuwait's Global given a chance for a USD1.7b debt restructure
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Nakheel to make profit payment soon
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China:
The Chinese Real Estate Downturn: The Evidence Is Overwhelming
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This Abandoned Theme Park On The Edge Of Shanghai Is Only The First Sign Of A Major Crash
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