Law:
DOJ withdraws Kaye Scholer settlement as GSC saga rolls on
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K&L Gates Adds Houston Restructuring & Bankruptcy Partner
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Psychotherapist Explains Why Some People Actually Love Corporate Law
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K&L Gates' Appeal of Le-Nature's Trustee $500 Mil. Suit Denied
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Stealth Lawyer: Mark Russ Federman, Appetizing Shop Owner
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Steps Can Be Taken To Avoid Overbilling By Outside Counsel
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Are blended rates alternative fee arrangements?
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Why The Billable Hour Endures
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Don’t Let the Door Hit You On the…
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Last Minute Ideas for Administrative Professionals Day (and Week)
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Matt Lauer: If NBC had hired PR Reputation Guys they would have made as much hourly as David Boies
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Federal Powers-that-be: Will they begin looking into law-firm bonuses?
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Will F. Lee Bailey practice law again? Opinion sees good character and one $2M problem
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Godfrey & Kahn to get $6.5M for work on Lehman Brothers bankruptcy
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Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Brooklyn Law School
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ABA Panel Struggles for Answers on Law School Reform
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How Much Does Your Law Professor Make? Berkeley Law Edition
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Major Chinese firm Zhong Lun opens office in New York
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Lawyer Not Liable for Failure to Make a Better Argument to Avoid an Error by the Trial Court
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Boss’s Relationship to Paralegal Paramour Raised Public Issue for Free Speech Claim
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The Early Lives Of The Boston Bombing Suspects --- Tamerlan Tsarnaev Actually Was On Government Lists Of Potential Terrorists --- Boston Bomber: US Wars Fed Our Radicalism --- Tarmerlan Tsarnaev Received Welfare --- Intelligence Agencies Didn't Share Information --- Feinberg begins evaluating how to compensate Boston Marathon victims --- Bombing Suspect Immediately Stops Talking After Government Reads Him His Miranda Rights
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Those on Terror Watch List Can Still Buy Guns
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71-Year-Old And Her Daughter To Get $4.2 Million For Being Shot By LAPD
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Close Shave
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Woman arrested 396 times tells parole board she can change
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Appeals court OKs 180-day contempt term for millionaire who helped son, 16, get married
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Read, Jose Canseco, Read.
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Bishop armed with samurai sword saves neighbor from mugger
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Spectator sells murder trial seat for $200, is scolded and told to give the money back
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How Much Pot Do You Need to Roll a Joint? Ask Justice Sotomayor!
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Supreme Court watchers keeping an eye on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's possible retirement
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Wall Street:
US Stock Futures Little Changed
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U.S. Stocks Close Mixed
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Wall Street Jobs Plunge as Profits Soar
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Layoffs:
The quiet humanitarian disaster of long-term unemployment
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Long-Term Unemployment Is The Biggest Crisis In America — How Much Do Politicians Care?
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Low Interest Rates Have Yet To Spur Job Growth
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Protesting for $15 an hour minimum wage
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An Alternative Theory Of The U.S. 'Skills Shortage'
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Municipalities:
Bankrupt Alabama county hires new top attorney
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Moody's says Detroit bankruptcy could mean further downgrades
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Despite Initial Protests, Detroit Appears Resigned to Emergency Manager
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Back to school is a condition of pay for Flint City Council, emergency manager says
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Stockton, Creditors Tell Bankruptcy Judge Debt Talks Will Resume
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US cities have a choice – pull together or go bust
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States' tax revenue likely grew at beginning of year: report
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10 most polluted cities
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Hawaii Remains State With Least Stress
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Oil/Gas:
The “Peculiar” Lease: Powell and the Treatment of Oil and Gas Leases
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Health Care:
CA: State sues financially troubled hospital chain
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Why one doctor quit healthcare in America
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Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption
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Student Debt:
Are Student Loans Becoming a Macroeconomic Issue?
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Distressed Investing:
Ex-Goldman Executives Said to Target $4 Billion for Special Situations Fund
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Alternative Energy:
California’s dream to be the Saudi Arabia of solar dries up in the desert
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Consumer Finance:
Federal regulators and Texas officials act to curb payday loans
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Economy:
Orders for U.S. Durable Goods Decline by Most Since August --- Points to sluggish economy
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Wealthiest Americans Only Winners in Recovery, Pew Says
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12 Signs The Economy Is Weaker Than You Think
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Two Key Datapoints Coming Out Today
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Obama's Budget Would Lead to the Highest Federal Tax Rate in 4 Decades
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Travellers Are Livid About Flight Delays Caused By The Sequester --- Budget Cuts Back in Spotlight as Flight Delays Mount --- Pilots On Sequester Flight Delays: 'This Could Get Ugly' --- Flight Delays And Harry Reid's Sequester Strategy
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Where the Budget Cut Pain Is Really Being Felt
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Here's What A National Internet Sales Tax Will Cost You
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Citigroup: "Major work" in shedding assets done
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Despite Improvement in Loan-Mod Defaults, Report Raises Alarms
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CA: Foreclosures Down on New Laws
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Judicial foreclosure timelines, regulations challenge servicers
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Credit proves a hurdle for potential homebuyers
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Housing's wealth effect is gone and probably not coming back
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Hear That Boom? 'Spec' Homes Are Back
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AIA: Architecture Billings Index indicates increasing demand for design services in March
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase, Purchase Index highest since May 2010
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Down Payment Rules Are at Heart of Mortgage Debate
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Deutsche Bank can't shake L.A. claims over foreclosure blight
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Sequester creates cracks in HUD's structure
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CFPB provides clarification on qualified mortgage rule
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How Much Has the Single Family Housing Market Shifted to Rentals (in numbers)?
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Celebs:
Bankruptcy judge issues arrest warrant for former Michael Jackson doctor once dubbed the 'dermatologist to the stars' --- Arnie Klein WANTED
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Why So Many Wealthy Athletes Wind Up Broke
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Autos:
Obama administration warned of Fisker troubles a year before suspending loan
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Exec: Fisker may file for bankruptcy
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Republicans slam U.S. bet on electric carmaker Fisker
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U.S. government, Fisker grilled over loans to green carmaker
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3 Lessons From Fisker's Flameout
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Fiat spurns Europe, eyeing the rest of Chrysler and a US listing
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Automakers are getting crushed in Europe
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Waste:
Carlyle's Synagro seeks bankruptcy sale to Swedish firm --- Files to implement $455M sale to EQT
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Synagro Technologies' bankruptcy will bring jobs to Baltimore
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Photography:
The impact of Kodak's decline
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Entertainment:
New Girls Gone Wild Leader Sues Founder Joe Francis
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Electricity:
The Biggest Energy Private Equity Deal is on the Verge of Collapse
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Brokers:
MF Again
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Strategic Posturing Behind the Suit Against Corzine
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Engineering:
Workers Hurt By Bosses' Scandal
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Retailing:
Why Wall St. is Fighting the Online Sales Tax
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Mass Torts:
Ten More Cities Beat Deadline to Sue BP
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BP lawsuit funder announces credit increase
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Rating Agencies:
Suddenly, Banks Are Victims
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Rating Agency: Gimme A Break! Nobody Actually Believed Us!
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Food/Beverage:
The Best Fast Food In America
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How To Book A Table At An Impossible-To-Get-Into Restaurant
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Construction:
When the Owner Fails
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Tech:
Atari Update
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Tax:
IRS Cannot Subpoena Law Firm's Documents Concerning Tax Client
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Apple's tax dodge --- Apple reports $43.6 billion in revenue and $9.5 billion in profit
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IRS issued billions in improper refunds, report says
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(2 new opinions today - DBN)
Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (41 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (52 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)
UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:
Cravath: Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law
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Bill on Bankruptcy: Lawyers Easily Make Simple Words Complicated
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Bankruptcy Litigation:
Accounting Company Held in Contempt For Failure to Comply With Trustee’s Subpoena
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Plan Confirmation:
In re Lothian Oil: No Tolling of Statute of Limitations for Chapter 11 Plan Revocation
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SARE Tactics: Placeholder Plans May Not Suffice to Protect a Single Asset Real Estate Debtor from Losing Chapter 11 Protections
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Professional Compensation:
Kaye Scholer cedes $1.5M in Chapter 11 fees, OKs new policy to end US Trustee's disclosure case - ABA Journal
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Cross-Border:
Comity in Chapter 15 - and Its Limits
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The UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency
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Disclosure:
Transparency Is the Rule in Chapter 11ýExcept for CEOs
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DIP Finance:
Delaware Bankruptcy Court Gives an “A+” to 37% Make-Whole Premium Re: Loan Contract Language
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Recent Pleadings:
Circuit Court Calls Weil On Conflict
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TBTF:
Too-Big-to-Fail Bill Seen as Fix for Dodd-Frank Act’s Flaws
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Vitter Brown Too Big To Fail Bill
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Litigation:
Appeals Court Rejects Adoptive Business Records Rule and Requires Direct Proof That Predecessor Creditor's Documents Were Business Records
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Fifth Amendment Fundamentals for Corporations
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What We've Got Here Is Failure to Communicate
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Authentication and Access for Social Media Evidence
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Defaults:
Fitch: U.S. High Yield Default Rate Slips to 1.6% in March, On the Move in April
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Corporate Reform:
The GOP's New Tactic Against the CFPB
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"Bankers Need A Spanking"
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Education:
It’s time to air Cooper Union’s dirty laundry
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Here's How Little Math Americans Actually Use at Work
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Defense:
As Pentagon Cuts, Contractors' Fortunes Diverge
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Sovereigns:
Harry's Here! -- Everyone Wants a Piece of NML's Pari Passu Pie
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Vulture funds come under sovereign fire
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UK:
Bankruptcy levels show fresh fall
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Barclays promises "rigorous" pay review
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KPMG administrators arrange pre-pack of BGM Group
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UK dodges triple-dip recession
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Sale of Lloyds' branches collapses
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EU:
Austerity debate rages in Europe
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PIIGS:
Spanish Unemployment Hits 27.2% — Highest Since They Began Keeping Records
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Swiss bank may be interviewed in Sean Dunne's US bankruptcy case
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Greek state workers plan to rally against job-cut law
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Italy's New Leader Throws Down Gauntlet on Austerity
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South Korea:
S. Korea Economy Grows at the Fastest Pace in Two Years
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