Law:
Berger Singerman Attorneys Howard Berlin And Kristopher Aungst Named "Most Effective Lawyers 2011" By Daily Business Review
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Giddens, Hughes Hubbard say no conflict in MF Global work --- Giddens Law Firm Worked for MF Parent Lenders Citibank, BofA --- PricewaterhouseCoopers Paid MF Trustee s Firm $6 Million in 2011
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Bonus Watch: Susman Godfrey Pays Ten-Gallon Bonuses (and Announces New Partners)--- It’s Cahill Time (aka Time for Cravath Associates To Feel Bad, Again)--- Cadwalader Matches S&C Bonus Scale
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As WaMu Reaches Chapter 11 Deal, A Look At Its Biggest Bankruptcy Billers
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Expelled from Linklaters’s Gilded Cage (Layoffs at Linklaters, at the partner level.)
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Judge Rules Law Partner Is Not an Employee, Can't Sue for Age Discrimination
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Fourteen Vinson & Elkins partners exit to Bracewell & Giuliani
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Morgan Stanley, HSBC, AT&T, BNY Mellon, UBS in Court News
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Are You, Law Grad, ‘Economically Viable’?
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Three Ways the Holidays Can Boost Your Résumé
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What to Do When the World Starts Moving Away
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Law School Apologizes for Briefly Posting Fictitious Ad for Unpaid Potato-Chip-Tester Position
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Haven’t We All Had a Little Adderall?
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Law School Transparency Hits Back
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Paralegal Allegedly Used Forged $285K Law Firm Check to Take Private Jet to NYC for Spending Spree
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Man Faces Criminal Charge After Faking (Alive)Mom’s Obituary in Bid for Paid Time Off
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Up A Pole, Cop OK
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Judges:
Lawyer flings even more religious slurs at judge handling company's bankruptcy case
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Catholic League Files Complaints over ‘Catholic Beasts’ Brief
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Law Firm to Complain About Judge Who Jailed Attorney for Contempt for Blocking Client Drug Queries
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Supreme Court Lines up Potentially 'Explosive' Election Year Docket
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Supreme Court an ‘enormous issue’ for 2012
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Elena Kagan recusal judged on the blogs
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Wall Street:
US stock index futures signal early gains
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World stocks down as Fed holds off on new stimulus
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Stocks Erase Gains After Fed Statement
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Wall St.'s Odd Couple and Their Quest to Unlock Riches
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Layoffs:
Citigroup will be laying off 413 employees in New York City
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Job openings decline in October to 3.27M
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Companies blame unemployment on skills gap... Lack of qualified workers, not demand, cited
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The 25 Best Companies To Work For In America
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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MF Global:
Probe Said to Investigate Illegal Use of Funds to Post Margin
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Exec says Corzine knew about missing money
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MF Global Trustee Says Highridge's $50 Million Is 'Located'
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MF Global Execs Say They Don't Know How Funds Went Missing --- Corzine says gave no order to move MF Global funds --- Never authorised 'misuse'
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Senators have ideas over missing MF Global funds
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Corzine amends comments about MF fund transfers --- Corzine is clueless
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MF Global was confident it could survive --- Drew up survival manual in final days
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What Is Re-Hypothecation, And Does It Explain Why So Much MF Global Money Is Missing?
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What the Hell Happened at MF Global?
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Was There a Madoff Inside MF Global?
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MF Global Trustee Says Goal Is to Return 100 Percent of Fund --- MF Global Trustee Seeks Creditors' Money for Customers
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MF Global Broker Customers May Get Refunds From Bankrupt Parent’s Estate
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Malpass on Corzine Hearing, MF Global
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MF Global for Dummies
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Trustee James Giddens testimony to US Senate Ag Committee on MF Global
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Republicans Pocketed MF Global Money, Too
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How MF Global Almost Got Away With Everything
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JP Morgan's Role In MF Global Will Be Investigated --- Corzine Says JPMorgan Contacted MF Global on Overdraft of Funds
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The Real Victims of Jon Corzine & MF Global's Bankruptcy
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Banking:
Washington Mutual executives set to settle financial crisis lawsuit --- Settlement is more fizzle than fight
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Ex-WaMu Officers to Pay Fraction of $64 Million Settlement of FDIC Laws
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Big Banks Suffer Credit Downgrade
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Pain May Not be Over for US Banks
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Autos:
Saab gets latest lifeline via $5 million Chinese infusion
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Shares in Saab parent company halted after plunge
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Aviation:
Attorney for AMR creditors pledges cooperation --- Want AMR to Exit Bankruptcy Stronger
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American Airlines Has First Hearing in Bankruptcy Court
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SMU Experts Look At AMR
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American Airlines creditors get in line
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Commander bankruptcy hearing continued to Jan. 17
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Celebs:
MC Hammer Denies New IRS Debt Rumors Via Twitter
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R. Kelly Selling Off Home Facing Foreclosure
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Actor Gary Dourdan Facing Foreclosure on Venice Home
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Economy:
Fed holds rates steady, sees moderate growth
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Fed Seen Revising Zero-Rate Pledge as Need for Bond Purchases Diminishes
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Bernanke Signals Fed Ready to Ease on EU Risk
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Economic Confidence Improving but Trails Year Ago
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Most Economists Expect Another Global Recession
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Small Businesses Feeling Better
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US Deficit on Pace to Run Below $1 Trillion
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Debt Burdens Still Have Power to Shock
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No End In Sight For Payroll Tax Cut Standoff
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Boehner: House Will Approve Tax Cut Bill --- House to Pass Payroll Tax Cut Despite Veto Threat
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Millionaires on Food Stamps? GOP is on It
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How to Solve Inequality? A Really Bad Recession
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Ground Zero for US Inequality: Connecticut
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Fed: The Only Thing That Can Derail The US Economy Now
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Who Counts as 'Rich'? Continued
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Number of Currently Married U.S. Adults Hits a Record Low
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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:
Realtors: Sorry, but we've been totally inflating home sales data since 2007
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US Senate Democrats Question Regulators' Foreclosure Probe
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Borrowers may give up future claims in foreclosure reviews
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Bank of America Mortgage Foreclosures May Face $19 Billion in Robo-Signing Concessions
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Not Even A $19 Billion Settlement Will End The Mortgage Mess --- Another Day, Another Claim of an Imminent Foreclosure Fraud Settlement
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Anatomy of a Mess – The Foreclosure Crisis
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Judge Kills Foreclosure Over Law Firm's Late Verifications
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Realtors: We've Overcounted US Home Sales for Years
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'Conflicted robosigner' equals no foreclosure : NY state judge
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Fitch: Properties average eight months in REO
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Home values dip in October as market reaches for the bottom
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Does Congress Want to Supersize the FHA?
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Construction Companies Have Never Had To Wait This Long To Get Paid
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Oil/Gas:
Oil Surges on Speculation of Supply Disruption, U.S. Stimulus --- Iran's Hormuz Strait Threats Could Wreak Global Economic Havoc
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Retailing:
RoomStore Chapter 11 Not Its First Brush With Bankruptcy
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Losses, cash shortage led to RoomStore filing
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Retail sales are helping economy grow consistently --- Sales Climb Less Than Forecast
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The Collapse Of Best Buy --- How Best Buy Became Such A Steaming Disaster
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US retail sales rise slightly in November
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Municipalities:
Bankruptcy Judge Mary France rejects Harrisburg City Council's bankruptcy appeal
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Harrisburg's creditors should give more, state-appointed receiver David Unkovic says
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Detroit prospects look bleak
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Firm to dissect city's finances
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Child homelessness up 86 percent in Southwest Florida
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Texas Comptroller: Economic Recession Over --- $1.6 Billion Surplus Projected
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CA: Top 100 Tax Delinquents Owe $419M
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Resorts:
Judge Says Resorts Can Start Borrowing On New Bankruptcy Loan
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Garnet Lake Lodge sale approved by bankruptcy judge
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Food/Beverage:
M. Slavin & Sons, Ltd. Announces Bankruptcy Exit
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Friendly's pension meltdown
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Round Table Pizza to exit Ch. 11
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Fraud:
Worldwide Financial CEO sentenced in bankruptcy fraud scheme
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Deanna Coleman testifies in Petters bankruptcy case
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Billionaire Steve Cohen: Insider trading is really just a "judgement call"
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Who will pay Rothstein's legal fees?
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Scott Rothstein Says Other Law Firms Aided $1.2B Fraud By Turning Blind Eye to His Lies
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Judge speeds transcript release in Fla. Ponzi case
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Ex-Petters exec: 99% of orders were faked --- Petters investor denies knowing about fraud
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SEC Sues SIPC, Seeks to Force Industry Insurer to Ante Up for R. Allen Stanford Customer Losses
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Awards:
Eckstein Named to List of Top Restructuring Lawyers of 2011 by Turnarounds & Workouts
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Museums:
Items at Chinqua Penn Plantation to be auctioned
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Protests:
What The 99% Really Need Is A Little Willpower
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Mail:
Who will deliver the US postal service from destruction?
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Postal Service to delay cutbacks until mid-May
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Corporate Reform:
Graham: Consumer Bureau is Stalinistic
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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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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:
Credit Bidding, RoomStore, MF Global, Dynegy: Bankruptcy
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Battersea Station, Japan Air, Australian Care Homes
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Rochelle on Credit Bids, Post-Dispatch, 3d Party Releases
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
What the Great Depression Did That This Recession Won't
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Sales:
Supreme Court To Weigh In On Credit-Bidding In Bankruptcy
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Automatic Stay:
Do As I Say AND As I Do: The Tenth Circuit Reverses Its Long-Standing Holding That the Automatic Stay Does Not Apply to Appeals Initiated by a Debtor
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Plan Confirmation:
A Lesson On Good Faith Artificial Impairment
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DIP Finance:
Summit Investment Provides New Capital to Suncoast Furniture
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Insurance:
Morgan Stanley settles with MBIA, sets $1.8 billion charge --- MBIA Credit-Default Swaps Drop on Settlement
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Appeals court tosses JP Morgan lawsuit against insurers
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Lehman:
Lehman Brothers Asia to Pay $1.5 Billion in Dividends to Creditors in 2012
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Gambling:
Las Vegas-based casino company emerges from bankruptcy
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Politics:
Fact check: Crossroads GPS ads against Warren, Nelson
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Gingrich Leads Romney But Support for Both is Tepid
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Why Republicans trust Gingrich but not Romney
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Forest Products
Sino-Forest faces debt deadline
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Hotels:
Hotel Lenders Avoid Foreclosures as $17.5 Billion in Loans Loom
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Baseball:
Fox Sports Files Appeal Seeking to Block Sale of Dodgers
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Hedge Funds:
The Hedge Funds That Will Own Wall Street Next Year
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Trucking:
Ex-Arrow Trucking executive Joseph Mowry dead at 45
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EU:
Euro falls to lowest level since January on Merkel
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Europe Using US as Model to Fix Debt Crisis: Bove
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S&P says more bonds at downgrade risk on euro zone crisis
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Silent Fed Has Euro Suffering More
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Pondering a Dire Day : Leaving the Euro
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Stop Europe’s Crisis by Saying No to Bank Borrowing
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S&P: Euro Zone May Need Another Shock
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Is The UK Missing The Boat, Or Avoiding the Iceberg?
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A totally unexpected way the Euro crisis could slam US GDP
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EU banks are selling their "crown jewels"
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Economist Reveals Europe's Most Important Deficit
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Europe's Austerity Zeal Risks Killing the Patient
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PIIGS:
IMF's Thomsen Says Greece Falling Short on Structural Reforms --- Huge Gap Of €6.9B In Jan-Nov Budget Execution
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IMF: Greece can't tax its people any further
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IMF Says Greeks Taxed-Out, but 150,000 Will Lose Their Jobs
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No end to Greek bourse drop as investors’ worries increase
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Greece's Pain Shows Flaws Of EU Summit Plan
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Greece Apparently Even Worse Off Than Realized, Hitting Euro, Stocks
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'Haircut' dispute risks delaying Greek rescue
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Banks seek official creditor status for new Greek bonds --- Greece Said Aiming to Give Private Lenders Seniority in Talks
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Italy Bond Yields Hit New High; Germany's Near Zero
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Euro: How Low Can It Go?
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China:
China Is Melting Down Again
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MENA:
UAE's bankruptcy laws : unworkable
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Personal bankruptcy laws key to entrepreneurship
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Australia:
Insolvency overhaul set to be announced: report
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