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Law:
Howrey Going To Get Out of Here?
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‘Revolution of Rising Expectations’ Has Hurt Howrey, Where $600K PPP Was Once the Norm
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Potential Lessons Big Law Can Learn From Howrey
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Howrey's Lessons
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How BigLaw Dies
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Small Firm and Solo Handle Round Table's Bankruptcy
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Bonus Watch: Linklaters Links Spring Bonuses to the S&C Scale, Not Cravath’s
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Staff Layoff Watch: Schulte Roth Has A Different Kind of Spring Surprise
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NY BigLaw Firm's $9 Million Tab Gets Okayed
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Cahill Revenue Soars 20% to $323M, PPP Rockets 27% to $3.23M, Both All-Time Records
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NY Firm's Profits Per Partner Up More Than 30%
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DLA Piper Opens Miami Office
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Akerman Thanks Litigation Gods for Chinese Drywall!
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With a Ribbon Around It: Winning the Pennant in a 'Pre-Bankruptcy' Case
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Take It From a Former In-House Counsel: The Numbers and Metrics That Matter
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Astroturfing: A Law Firm Opportunity
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The Fall of the Legal Cartels?
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Adams and Reese Among Targets of Suits Filed by Stanford Plaintiffs
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The Next Big ‘Buzz Words’ in Legal Technology
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Pls Hndle Thx: BroTips
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In a Field of Reason, Lawyers Woo Luck Too
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Would You like Fries with Your Merger Agreement?
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Dress Codes: Saving You From Yourself
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Should Lawyers Follow Wall Street's Unspoken Rules On Simple Hair & Make Up?
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Shingle-Hanging 201: Another Year, Same Approach
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Judge fines lawyer over foreclosure advice
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Is Groupon Feasible for Lawyers?
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Ken Feinberg’s Retracted Affidavit Cited in Appeals Ruling Favoring Fen-Phen Lawyers
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In-House Counsel Say One Firm Can Handle Any Curveball ... Which Is It?
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GCs: Alternative Billing Is Here to Stay
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Outsourcing and the Virtual Law Office
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In ‘Reflection of the Job Market,’ Albany Law School to Cut Enrollment By 4%, Budget By 2%
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Disbarred Lawyer Allegedly in Court With Client is Jailed; Case is 2nd in 2 Months
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Giving Out Trophies to Clients :))
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Philadelphia Man Acquitted After Using Hair Defense
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Mom Probed After Making Teen Son Stand By Road Wearing Sign About Poor Grades
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T. “Scotch” Reynolds: Third Amendment Lawyer :))
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Police Tell Female Law Students ‘Don’t Dress Like a Slut’ To Avoid Sexual Assault
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Sticking It to the Law Students
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Legal Love with Your Subordinate?
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Super-sized Supermodel Has Big, Big (Law) Plans
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Witchcraft Legal Aid
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NJ housewife suing Century 21 for $5M over 80 cents
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Judges:
The justices’ partisanship
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The Thomas Issue
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Does Clarence Thomas's Silence Matter?
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U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on 0-15 losing streak
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Senators Introduce Sunshine in the Courtroom Act
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Supreme Court seeks 90 more Fla. trial judges
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Ciavarella Guilty on Racketeering, Fraud Charges
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After NJ Justice Refuses to Rule in Some Divided Cases, Senate Urges His Resignation
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Do Judges ♥ Lawyers?
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YouTube Video Satirizes Court Tech Project
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Litigation:
A Sense of Injustice Can Empower a Jury to Undo a Wrong for Your Client
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Google Transforms Jury Selection Process
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Scheindlin's 'Day Laborer' Decision: Much Ado About Metadata
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Judge Allows Witness to Testify via Skype
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Choose or Lose: Don't Leave Designating Deposition Excerpts to Others
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Wall Street:
US flash crash panel calls for market overhaul
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Wall Street's Buy Everything Mindset
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The Revolving Door between DC and Wall Street swings again
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How the S&P 500 destroyed $4.5 trillion
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Leonardo DiCaprio Will Play A Wall Streeter In Upcoming Scorsese-Directed "Wolf Of Wall Street"
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Layoffs:
Mass layoffs bill advances in N.J. legislature
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Education:
Why Does College Cost So Much?
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Health Care:
U.S. Oncology: An Update on Recent Disputes in Make Whole Provisions
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The new federalism
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Celebs:
Anna Nicole lover weighs legal move on 'trashy' opera
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BB King Blues Club in Vegas files for bankruptcy
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Roger Clinton, Brother of Bill Clinton, in Big Tax Trouble
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Compensation:
Jamie Dimon: Bonus King
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Risk Not Being Considered in Wall Street Pay
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Krawcheck Slaps Cut-Pay Garden Leave on BofA Advisers After Broker Defects
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Museums:
San Francisco's Asian Art Museum debt restructured
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Fraud:
UniCredit responds to Madoff trustee's suit
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Madoff Investors: Kill Settlement With Fraudster's 'Surrogate Father'
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Madoff victims' lawyer asks for reversal
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As Mediator in Mets Case, Mario Cuomo Has Practice
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Mets’ Owners Guarded an Investment Pipeline
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Koufax, a Madoff investor, supports Mets owner
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Mets' Teufel Asked To Return Profits From Madoff's Ponzi Scheme
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A Plain 'Bernie Madoff'?
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Wall Street’s billion-dollar Madoff tax
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Madoff Ponzi Schemes: What Do We Want to Know?
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Sonja Kohn, Bernie Madoff's Bag Lady
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Fugitive Kim used Bernie MO
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A Playmate, a Ponzi scheme, jewels and murder
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Newark man, others accused of Ponzi scheme
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'Ultimate Con Man' Gets 40 Years
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Whoops! Did the SEC Drop the Ball in Backdating Fraud Probe of Ex-GC?
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Black files new highest court appeal
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Allen Stanford Sues Feds, Says It's All Unfair
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Joke Over for Comedy Brand?
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Corporate Reform:
SEC executive director leaves
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Elizabeth Warren hires some bankers
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Warren's Wall Street hires shape CFPB's future
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Regulator in Chief
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Elizabeth Warren's vision: A digitally empowered CFPB
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Elizabeth Warren : 'Location, Location, Location'
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Consumer Bureau To Occupy Thrift Supervision Complex
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Scott Brown's Next Opponent: Best Available Warren?
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Warren is a warrior
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Republicans warn against rolling out Dodd-Frank in haste
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Bigger Budgets For US Regulators Means More Hiring Opportunities For US Bankers
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Borders:
Bankrupt Borders hires firm to dispose of 200 stores
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Borders decline means big changes for industry
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Borders must change business model if it is to survive bankruptcy
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Borders bankruptcy spells problems for Washington area businesses
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Borders begins store closing sales
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Requiem for a Borders Bookstore
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Borders: Was Bigger Better?
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Bankruptcy Of Borders Proves Flooding The Market With Books Doesn't Work
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Book sellers adjusting to Internet era
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Borders's Fall From Grace
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Struggling book industry only has itself to blame
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Aviation:
PC Capital Agrees to Buy Mexicana, Bringing Airline Closer to Flying Again
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Retailing:
Mall purchased for $12.2 million
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Maui shopping center confronts foreclosure
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Economy:
Home Sales Probably Fell, Goods Orders Rose as Factories Head U.S. Economy
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Bernanke worries about cash bubble
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Justice Dept. Opposes High-Court Appeal in Fed Disclosure Case
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Bernanke Defends Fed's Policies
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Don’t Blame Easy Money for Capital Swings, Bernanke Says
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G20: Geithner Criticizes China
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Geithner Offers Neighborly Advice In Paris
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Deficit Could Reshape Retirement
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Is Inflation Really Just 1.6%
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Buffett Says Pricing Power Beats Good Management
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John Paulson Goes Mano-A-Mano With Alan Greenspan
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The Big Short Meets the Maestro
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America's Economic Dream a Nightmare
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How the Fed Prints Money without Ink
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It’s Time For The Fed To Declare Victory And Go Home
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Silver Hits Highest Level in 31 Years
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Here Comes $4 Gas
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Social Security Admin warns workers of cuts
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Creating Value
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Realism on Defense Spending - More on Defense
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House Votes to Cut $60 Billion, Setting Up Budget Clash
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In The Middle Of The Night, The GOP Passes An Austerity Budget That's A Total Joke
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Government shutdown is likely, Pelosi aide says
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Memories of 1995 Haunt GOP as Shutdown Talk Grows
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Corporate America's Economic Outlook
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George Soros: Obama "Has Lost Control" Of America's Economic Agenda
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G-20 Overcomes China Opposition to Agree on Yardsticks to Gauge Imbalances
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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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Bailout Recipients
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Real Estate:
Geithner Called Housing Giants Biggest 'Moral Hazard'
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Critics say MERS foreclosure halt shows broken business model
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Maine court rules for GMAC in robo-signing case
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Mortgage mayhem generates work
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Fort Myers attorney indicted in mortgage fraud scheme
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Lawyer Held in Contempt for Advising Clients to Reclaim Foreclosed Home
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Homeowner fights back against big bank
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Forensic Accounting And Valuation Litigation: Finding Out Who Really Holds The Note
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Homeownership loses its luster
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The Whistle Blower Than Beat Countrywide
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U.S. Said to End Criminal Investigation of Mozilo
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The Truth About Housing Prices
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Lennar Bets on Ex-Officer Housing 'Party' as California Rebounds
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BarCap claims strategic default is overestimated
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The curse of negative home equity
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RE/MAX: US home sales returned to positive territory in January
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January delinquencies decline over year-ago period: LPS
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Feds step up bank probes on foreclosure
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Most Robo-Foreclosures Legit: OCC
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New Jersey Foreclosures Expected to Rise 20 Percent in 2011
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Lenders Assail NJ's Threats To Halt Foreclosures
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6 of the biggest mortgage lenders say NJ high court overstepped its boundaries
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Kane County uses stimulus money to fix 'worst of the worst'
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Mobile named foreclosure hotspot
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Silicon Valley house prices edge higher; 'distress sales' dominate
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In Fla., It's A Great Time For Canadian Homebuyers
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All Real Estate is Local? Think Again
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Homeowner associations step up foreclosure filings
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Exhibit eyes foreclosure crisis
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Robo-signing foreclosures put scrutiny on notaries
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Mortgage Servicers May Face Sanctions, New Rules, Regulator Says
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Stumpf's Office Calls Homeowner Who Foreclosed on Bank
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CRE Loan Modifications Make Sense; Residential Loan Mods Don't
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Move Over, New York: Rio’s Office Market Now Pricier
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US Housing Starts Rise More Than Forecast on Multifamily Jump
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Property Prices Perk Up in February
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Changes at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac could transform mortgage landscape
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Bank of America takes over Renaissance on the River in Fort Pierce
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LA: Developer gives up claims to condo project stalled by bank failure
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Foreclosure surge left one fund flush
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Allstate Sues Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Over Mortgage-Backed Securities
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Municipalities:
Trouble, Scope, Apostrophes, and State Bankruptcy
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The world wonders: Can states go bankrupt?
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Union Fight Heats Up
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GOP Challenging Unions in State Capitols
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What Do Public Employees Really Earn?
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Wisconsin: Why Week of Rage Matters to America
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How Wisconsin Got Here
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Factbox: Details of Wisconsin proposal on public unions
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Protestors Take State Capitol in Wisconsin
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WI Dem Goes on TV from 'Undisclosed Location'
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Wisconsin: Tea Party Takes on Union Protesters
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The Republican Strategy
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Firefighters! Bagpipes! Unions!
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Do Americans Agree with Tea Party on Unions?
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Wis. governor: GOP won't be 'bullied' by union bill protesters
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Opposing sides meet as Capitol protests enter sixth day
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Protests Fail to Sway Wisconsin Governor
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Moderate Republicans Offer Deal in Wisconsin
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For Compromise in Wis., 3 GOP Senators Are Needed
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At Stake In Wisconsin - The Future Of Unions In America
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Wisconsin Union Battle: A Convenient Distraction From the Real Culprit in State Budget Woes
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Obama joins Wisconsin's budget battle, opposing Republican anti-union bill
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Republicans vow to cut spending in state capitols
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Protests Spread to Ohio
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Idaho official target of threats over education reform plan
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Could Minnesota See Similar Union Fights As Wisconsin?
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States ignored warnings on unemployment insurance
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Second Injury Fund suffers what could be fatal wound
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Fate of some communities may be in the hands of emergency financial managers
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New Jersey towns need to come together to survive
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Cincinnati pension crisis at 'turning point'
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Nassau Gets Court Reprieve
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Michigan cities' future: Doing less with less
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Michigan orders DPS to make huge cuts
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LePage refuses to name 'ready-to-default' towns
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Bail eased for ex-mayor of scandal-ridden CA city
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Symphonies:
Musicians reject Detroit Symphony's contract offer
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Accounting:
External Recruiter Posing as PwC Staff Is ‘Very Convincing,’ Well Versed in Firm Jargon
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Autos:
Auto union must look out for companies, too
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Credit Cards:
CARD Act of 2009 to be Addressed at Conference
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Corporate Governance:
The Current Talk of Wall Street: Laster’s Del Monte Opinion
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Baseball:
How FOX Fought the Airwaves Battle When the Rangers Hit the Skids
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Tax:
An IRS agent walks into a CFO’s office…
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IRS Raises Interest Rate On Underpayments
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Ethanol:
Green Plains to acquire Otter Tail Ag Enterprises
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Pensions:
PBGC To Assume Relizon Pension Fund
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster faces possible evictions as woes mount
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Personal Finance:
Bankruptcy and possible foreclosure didn't stop couple's spending
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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:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Insurance:
Ambac Gets Four-Month Extension as Judge Calls Disputes `Ugly'
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Miscellaneous:
Blockbuster, Borders, Nebraska Book: Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Small Business Bankruptcies Fall 18%
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Mass Torts:
'There is no Interim Payment Program,' Louisiana Says in Knock to Feinberg's Process
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BP Says Feinberg Fund Far Exceeds Law Requiring Spill Payments for Victims
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Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
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Merck Vioxx Accord Spawns Pay-Day Scrap Among Lawyers
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Banking:
Extra Requirements Seen for Big Banks at End of 2012
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Swiss banks have to come clean
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Report: FDIC plans to sue former WaMu execs for over $1 Billion
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Bad Central Bankers
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Moody's plans downgrades for big banks
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Food/Drink:
H&H Bagels Owner Bakes Up Bankruptcy Filing
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Food Company That Touted Healthy Options Enters Chapter 11
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Giordano's Deep in Debt
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A Steady Decline in the Number of Restaurants
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Lehman:
Lehman Pushed 'Goat Poo' Securities, J.P. Morgan Says
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What Did Ernst & Young Call Lehman’s ‘Goat Poo’ Assets?
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ISDA Master Agreement: High Court Interprets Section 2(a)(iii)
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Sovereigns:
Al-Zayat Takes $8 Billion German Bond Claim to U.S. High Court
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China Flexes Muscles With USA As Biggest Creditor
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UK:
Businesses 'are showing signs of distress'
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MCR administrators sell Ollie & Nic in pre-pack
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When Trade Finance Meets Insolvency
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Now we know for sure where we are with TUPE and pre-packs
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Appointment of Administrators - 18 February 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 18 February 2011
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Freshfields wins court victory for RBS against Liverpool FC's former owners
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Energem goes into bankruptcy without telling shareholders
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JJB Sports Raises £31.5 Million to Keep Going
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EU:
Key Euribor rates inch up after interest rate warning
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Europe Services, Manufacturing Expand at Fastest Pace in More Than 4 Years
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Mystery Surrounds Elevated Borrowing From European Central Bank
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Warning over discriminatory EU ‘bail-in’ plans
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Trichet Declines to Comment on Report Irish Bank Borrowing Raised Costs
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High ECB overnight loan levels tied to Ireland
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Bad News For The PIIGS: Angela Merkel's Party Gets Crushed In Regional Elections
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Canada:
Ipico seeks restructuring, loan facility from Brookfield
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CBC: Disabled Nortel workers seek $80M relief fund
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France:
French Pharmacies Face Bankruptcy Risk
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Germany:
German Business Confidence Unexpectedly Rises to Record
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Kirch Fight With Deutsche Bank Is Battle of 'Yesterday's Men'
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Spain:
Spain Gives Savings Banks Six More Months to List Equity
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Thousands fear for savings in Spanish financial scandal
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Spain Unbowed on Cajas
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Spain Rules on Capital to Provide Boon for IPO Bankers, Lawyers
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Portugal:
Portugal Has Not Requested Aid-German Minister
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Ireland:
Ireland turns to bankruptcy tourism
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Figures For Mortgage Defaults Double
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History-making Irish vote shot through with anger
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Greece:
Greece’s Efforts to Limit Tax Evasion Have Little Success
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Middle East:
Crude Oil Rises as Spreading Unrest in Middle East Prompts Supply Concern
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Egypt's Top Tycoon Fears Descent Into Anarchy
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Revolution Will Not Cure Egypt's Poverty
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Prosecutor General freezes assets
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150 Shot Dead in Cairo Jail Massacre
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Violence marks 'Friday of Rage' across Yemen
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Bloodshed in Libya, Possible Talks in Bahrain
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Bahrain: This is War
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How A Bahraini Revolution Could Trigger A Brand New Financial Crisis
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US Had Rosy View Before Bahrain Crackdown
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Protests Swell at Bahrain Funerals
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Al-Arabiya Cites Unconfirmed Reports Of A Coup In Libya
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Gadhafi's son warns of civil war in Libya
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BP Prepares to Evacuate Staff From Libya
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Oil Majors Stall Libya Drilling, Withdraw Staff
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The Libyan Central Government Building Is On Fire, And Oil And Silver Are Surging
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Gaddafi's Son Gives Desperate, Rambling Speech To Prevent A Revolution
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Moroccan protesters call for curbs on king's powers
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Riot police crack down in Algiers
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Arab capitals braced for violence as unrest spreads
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Saudi Arabia Faces Shi'ite Unrest in Oil Region
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Dubai Shares Drop as Mideast Unrest Sparks Risk Aversion; Emaar, Zain Fall
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US Treasuries Rise as Tension in Mideast Boosts Demand for the Safest Assets
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China:
Hundreds gather in Beijing, Shanghai
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Internet postings call for protests in 13 cities
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China Blocks Coverage of Protests to Squelch Egypt-Style Revolt
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Top activists disappear
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China May Force Banks to Plan in Case of Financial Crisis
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The Truth About Inequality In China
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South Korea:
Fears of a Run on South Korean Banks
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Government To Ease Limits On Mortgages
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Japan:
Japan Government Upgrades Econ View on Signs Lull Is Over
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Australia:
Ron Medich a big loser in Adam Tilley's insolvency arrangement
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New Zealand:
Pike River Payment Uncertain
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Whitcoulls Administrators Prepare For Creditors Meeting
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Czech Republic:
Constitutional court adds to debate on lender's position in insolvency proceedings
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Iceland:
Banks just too big to fail? Iceland shows otherwise
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Iceland's President Vetoes Icesave Repayment
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Iceland to Hold Referendum on Law to Repay $5 Billion U.K., Dutch Deposits
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