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Law:
2011 Predictions from Legal Media Stars
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Law firms see another good year for bankruptcies
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Covington and the ‘Crisis Management’ Boomlet
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Survey Says! Paralegaling is a Better Job Than Lawyering
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It's Off! Reed Smith, Thompson & Knight End Merger Talks
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Lawyer of the Year: The Finalists
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Obama Reaches Into Am Law Ranks for New Round of Appointments
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Madoff, BofA, MBIA, Stanford, Goldman, Merrill in Court News
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MGA pleads to retain counsel — or at least for a delay of Bratz doll retrial
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Former Greenberg Traurig Associate Sentenced for Stealing $500,000
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In-House: Charging Litigation Losses to Business Units
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Man Abandoned In Courthouse For 18 Hours
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Holland & Knight Has Common Courtesy to Give Associates Pads
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Being Born in U.S. No Longer Good Enough for Republican State Lawmakers
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You’re On Hidden Camera, XXX Edition
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Law Degree, Never Used, For Sale On eBay
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Someone Else Not to Friend on Facebook: Your Victim -
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Florida Professor Arrested for Having a Suspicious Bagel
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Judges:
President Obama Debuts His New (sort of) Slate of Judicial Nominees
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Obama Suffers First Defeat on Judge Picks
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Wall Street:
US Stock -Index Futures Maintain Gains as Jobless Claims Lift Confidence
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How the Major Stock Indexes Fared Thursday
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The 4 Key Revelations About Facebook’s Finances
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Facebook likely to go public in 2012
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Goldman May Sell Facebook without Warning
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Layoffs:
Gallup Finds Unemployment at 9.6% in December
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10% Unemployment Forever?
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Unemployment claims rose last week, but overall trend still points downwards
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Banking:
Bankruptcy Sale Could Be New Rescue Plan For Failing Banks
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In Bankruptcy, AmWest May Be Blazing Trail for Others
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Cost of lawsuits may weigh heavily on banks
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Bank of America categorizes clients, adds fees
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Celebs:
Jennifer Lopez Caught Up In IRS Investigation
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Toni Braxton May Pose for Playboy
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Should Toni Braxton Do Playboy to Get Out of Bankruptcy ?
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Eva Longoria's Beso files bankruptcy to restructure debt
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Vick has paid a price for his horrible acts
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Fraud:
Prosecutors Play Hardball With a Madoff Defendant
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Defrauding Nuns
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Insurer Sues Goldman Over Controversial Bond Deal
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The Surreal Lawsuit Over Goldman’s Abacus Deal
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Drama Continues In Allen Stanford Case; Judge Considers Competency
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Stanford Isn't Competent to Stand Trial in Investment Fraud, Doctors Say
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Did Allen Stanford's Jailhouse Beating Cause Brain Damage?
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Allen Stanford trial postponed over depression and anxiety drug addiction
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Federal judge orders detox for financier R. Allen Stanford
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Prosecutors Get Go-Ahead to Use Wiretaps in Separate Galleon Case
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Madoff investors object to $7.2 billion trustee deal
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$7B Madoff deal sparks suit by scammed investors
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Hope for Madoff investors hit with clawback lawsuits
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SEC probes California over Calpers
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Aviation:
Aloha Airlines' name and assets sold
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Investments:
Judge Orders Trustee To Take GSC's Helm
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Corporate Reform:
Bachmann introduces repeal of Dodd-Frank, fires back at critics
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Tea Party Caucus: Repeal Dodd-Frank
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GOP Introduces Anti-Global Warming Bills
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'Warren' room
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Gen. Petraeus' Wife Makes War On Fraud
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Telecoms:
FairPoint Communications adjusts debt plan, eyes exit from Chapter 11
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Resorts:
Merlin resort development company files Chapter 11
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Mass Torts:
BP Set to Avoid Gross Negligence Charge
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Economy:
US jobless claims near 2 1/2 yr low for past month
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US Treasury asks Congress to lift debt ceiling
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Geithner: Disaster if Debt Limit Not Raised
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GOP Admits Debt Limit Should Rise
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Record High Food Prices Stoke Fear
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Pentagon Seeks Biggest Military Cuts Since Before 9/11
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Bernanke to face Senate skeptical of Fed policy
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Volcker's Future as Obama Adviser Uncertain
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Volcker Forced Out as Obama Goes Pro-Wall St.
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Obama Turns to Clinton's Economic Team
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Final Tab for Pelosi’s Speakership: $5.34 Trillion in New Debt—Or $3.66 Billion Per Day
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JP Morgan Markets Its Latest Doomsday Machine (or Why Repo May Blow Up the Financial System Again)
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Recession's psychic impact
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A personal message, I'm about to go homeless.
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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:
Blight Returns to Rehabilitated Block in the Bronx
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How the Great Recession created ghost towns
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Home prices down 1.63% in December, new listings even lower
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Cities Where Home Values Will Rise And Fall The Most In 2011
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Senators Urge Geithner to Tackle Mortgage Process `Forcefully'
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A Look at Mortgage Rates in the Last 52 Weeks
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Orange County Housewife's Foreclosure Averted - For Now
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Couple squatted in Newport Beach foreclosure
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New auction date for 'Housewife' mansion
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ACA Financial sues Goldman Sachs for CDO fraud
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Judge says Horowitz can keep control of Daisy Baker's site in Troy
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HBO chief's Big Isle project bankrupt
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O.C. builder could lose stake in 3 projects
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New Fannie interactive Web tool provides foreclosure avoidance options
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Commercial mortgage modifications become huge trend in just two years
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Tax:
IRS tax liens jump by 60%
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Retailing:
December Retail Sales Are Weaker Than Expected
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Big hits and misses from December retail sales
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Borders hires FTI amid refinancing
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Borders Jumps as Potential Restructuring Is In the Works
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Borders' financial woes spark bankruptcy debate
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Is Anchor Blue going out of business?
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Boating:
Bank Turns Attention to Yacht in Seattle Bankruptcy Case
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Chemicals:
Chemtura Strikes Settlement Deal Over Bio-Lab Fire
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Health Care:
Health clinics file Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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CBO: Health Care Repeal Would Up Deficit
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Municipalities:
Congress, Consider Giving Our States a Chance!
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Whistling Past the Graveyard of Municipal Debt
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Local governments, employees may share budget pain
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Harrisburg Workers Get Paid Despite Lack Of Enacted Budget
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California Public Schools Are in Fiscal Crisis as Cuts Loom, Official Says
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The Downsizing in Detroit
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Bankruptcy won't solve cities' long-term woes
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Hamtramck residents off ideas to bail out city
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Hamtramck seeks options to fill $3M deficit
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Activists Seek Tactics to Break Pension Deals
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Oil/Gas:
Why High Oil Prices Threaten the Recovery
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Is Fed to Blame for Soaring Oil Prices?
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Crude Oil Trades Near Lowest in 3 Weeks
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Horse Racing:
Race for Rosecroft Raceway ownership intensifies
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Bidders line up for Rosecroft
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Food/Drink:
Bashas’ execs discuss company’s emergence from bankruptcy
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Rendell: 'A little more' dough for Tasty
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Golf:
Textron Financial takes Firethorne Country Club in bankruptcy court sale
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History:
The Bankruptcy Scam of 1933
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The Bankruptcy Scam of 1933-Part II
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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:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Miscellaneous:
Vitro, Trico Marine, Aloha Airlines, Tetragenex: Bankruptcy
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Jurisdiction:
SCOTUS takes on Anna Nicole Smith
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Claim Priority:
WaMu Junior Noteholder Claims Can't Move Up in Payment Order, Judge Rules
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
11 States Where Bankruptcies Soared In 2010
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Business Bankruptcies Decline, But Total Filings Remain High
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Albany: Business bankruptcies hit 6-year high
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Kansas Ranks 35th in Bankruptcy Filings
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More bankruptcies filed in NE in 2010
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Bankruptcy Filings Continue to Slide in December But Show 8% Increase on Annual Basis
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Insurance:
Liquidator probes CLICO wires
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Religion:
How far does cost of Milwaukee Archdiocese bankruptcy reach?
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In church bankruptcy, someone's thinking about real estate
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Catholics respond to Archdiocese bankruptcy
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Diocese decision to file for bankruptcy fraught with risks
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PETA Asks Archdiocese To Erect 'Go Vegan' Statue
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God May Have an Excellent Answer to our Financial Mess: Start Over With a Clean Slate
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Mobile Homes:
Palm Harbor Homes Wins Court Approval for Asset Auction
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Museums:
SF Officials Help Restructure Debt For Asian Art Museum
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Asian Art Museum Avoids Bankruptcy
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Small Business:
Outlook for Small Businesses in 2011
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Harvest Ministries president, CEO indicted
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Hotels:
No bids for NY's landmark Hotel Niagara at auction
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UK:
U.K. Business Bankruptcy Filings Decline 35% From Last Year
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Bankruptcy experts accused of cashing in
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It's all about entitlement - and it can be a bun-fight
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SNP calls for probe into insolvency industry
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MSP attacks insolvency practitioners
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Call for probe into insolvency payout delays
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UHY partner Andronikou reprimanded by ICAEW
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EU:
Burdensharing for bank bondholders is here!
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EU Proposes Framework For Bank Failure, Giving Bill To Lenders
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Brussels plans bondholder ‘bail-ins’
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Eurozone economy suffers growth slowdown
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Euro Crisis Roars Back to the Forefront
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Stiglitz: EU Austerity Moves Clearly Wrong
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Canada:
A bankruptcy led to business school
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Germany:
German Recovery Widens as Retail Rises Most in Five Years
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Portugal:
Eleven businesses a day went bust in 2010
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Japan:
Japan's Population Falls by 100,000
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China:
Chinese Set September Cut-Off For Crafar Deal
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Ireland:
US Hearing Trawls Through Dizzying Trail Of Drumm's Transfers And Deposits
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House Prices Down 40% From Peak
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EU Raises €5 Billion For Irish Bailout
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Africa:
Ivory Coast Investors Brace For Bond Default
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