Law:
The $1,000-an-Hour Bankruptcy Lawyer Moonlights as Energy Healer
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Rainmaker Q&A: Bilzin Sumberg's Scott Baena
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Yikes! Are D.C. Law Firms In Trouble?
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Growth in Global Disputes Brings Big Paychecks for Law Firms
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Musical Chairs: David Bernick Departs From Boies Schiller
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Michael F. Holbein
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Can GCs Persuade Firms to Have More Women Partners?
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The old boys' network is alive and well
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Lawyerly Lairs: Everything Is Bigger In Texas (Part 2)
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The Power of Mindfulness in the Practice of Law
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2013 ILTA survey reveals that law firms buy a lot of iPads and iPhones
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Bring in the FBI: Your Paranoia Is Justified
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R.I.P. The End Of The Law Futurist
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Dear Obama, Instead Of Talking About Law Schools, You Could Actually Do Something
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Debating The Utility Of The Third Year Of Law School
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OCI Week: 5 Mistakes Made in Legal Resumes
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Attorney Told She Was ‘Not That Pretty’ Can Advance Sex Bias Claims Against City
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The 16 Things You Should Do At The End Of Every Work Day
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Either Wachtell Is A Cult Or This Business Insider Piece Is Missing Something
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Fortune-teller accused of bilking $17M from best-selling romance novelist
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Attorney Disbarred For Hiding Assets For The Missus
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Want to reduce stress and boost your confidence? Strike a power pose
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New York Yankees' Steroid Story Takes Nasty, Surprising Turn
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Don't Call the Law in Louisiana
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County Pays $2.6 Million To Family After Swat Team Raids Home, Starts Fire That Kills Innocent Man, and Blocks Fire Trucks Rushing To The Scene
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South Carolina Restaurant Refuses To Serve Black Patrons — Denny’s Redux
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Lawyer is not thrilled by George Zimmerman visit to gun manufacturer
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Lawyer who pleaded guilty to helping clients hide assets posts bond with $500K work of art
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You'd think they would have seen that coming
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City bans homeless people from its downtown
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The 5 Most Intense Moments From This Week's Episode Of 'Breaking Bad'
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Say What?!
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Judges:
West Michigan bankruptcy court will get two new judges next year
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Judge Preska: Budget Cuts Hurting SDNY, Including BK Courts --- There's No Sequestering the Sixth Amendment
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Verbal tussle with judge nets escalating days in jail for assault defendant
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Judge faces 45 ethics charges, is accused of delaying trials and defendants’ release
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Justice for Sale: TX judge took bags of cash to influence court outcomes
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Justice Ginsburg shows us (again) that law is not politics
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Scalia and Ginsburg are really disappointed in the Supreme Court. But only one of them is right to be.
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Wall Street:
Stock futures fall, weighed by Syria, debt worries
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Stocks fall on talk of strike on Syria
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Layoffs:
"For Laid-Off Older Workers, Age Bias Is Pervasive"
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Long-Term Unemployed Baby Boomers in 2013
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Workers Of America Are Getting Screwed
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Some Good Jobs News Out Of Texas
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Aviation:
American Airlines' parent company reports earnings of $292 million --- Profit doubles
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Union Tensions Emerge over AMR-US Air Merger
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Celebs:
IRS To Michael Jackson's Estate: Who's Bad?
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The Broke and the Beautiful: McDreamy Lawsuit Edition
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Judge In Paula Deen Case Mulls Sanction Of Plaintiff's Lawyer
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Shipping:
Overseas Shipholding May Owe $460 Million or More to IRS
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Telecoms:
Nortel's $7.5bn court clash delayed
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Fraud:
Madoff trustee reaches $98 million settlement with Maxam fund
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Petters Fundraiser Seeks Reduced Sentence
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The Saddest Line In The New York Attorney General's Lawsuit Against Donald Trump's Alleged 'Sham' 'University' --- Donald Trump Blames Obama
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Photography:
Learning to share: Kodak’s U.S. vs. international bankruptcy and the shareholder dilemma
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Economy:
Durable-Goods Drop Imperils Outlook for U.S. GDP Pickup --- July orders for factory goods plunge
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Tuesday: Case-Shiller House Prices, Consumer Confidence, Richmond Fed Mfg Survey
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Obama Officials Said Divided on Fiscal Debate Strategy
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Report: Larry Summers likely to the Fed nod --- If Larry Summers Becomes Fed Chair, He Better Be Worth It --- Will Obama Make the Fed Even Worse?
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The 5% recovery: Why most are still in recession --- Why It Still Feels Like Recession To 95% Of America
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America Resilient Five Years After Great Recession
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US Treasury to reach debt ceiling in mid-October
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Cashin: Bernanke's worrying parallel to the 1930s
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Krugman: News Flash: The CBO Isn’t Stupid
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Wall Street's 5 Most Dangerous Financial Innovations
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Why Do Education and Health Care Cost So Much?
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
ResCap Examiner Asks to be Discharged
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Eminent Domain Scheme Has a Tax Problem
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Richmond's "plan relies not on a novel use of eminent domain but on one endorsed by the conservative Supreme Court of 1935"
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MERS Wins Dismissal of Minnesota Counties’ Filings Suit
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Existing Home Inventory is up 21.4% year-to-date on Aug 26th
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Mortgage Wars Part 2--Attack of the Robo-Signers
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JPMorgan told to pay Blavatnik $42.5 mln over mortgage losses
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Municipalities:
Detroit Mediator Orders Syncora Into Swaps Accord Talks
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Detroit Bankruptcy Judge to Consider Eligibility Objections, Swaps Dispute
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Lessons you can learn from Detroit bankruptcy
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Detroit bankruptcy objections based on pensions must wait
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Detroit Bankruptcy Judge Speeds Up Part of Eligibility Fight
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Detroit Pensions: Determining the True Liability
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Why did Detroit declare bankruptcy ?
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National Commentary Wrong About Detroit's Failure
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Detroit’s Toxic Legacy –Bankrupt City Faces Environmental Challenges
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How Detroit's Bankruptcy Impacts the Muni Market
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Erase Blight. Erase Debt. In Bankrupt Detroit, It's All The Same
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“Vulture” Hedge Funds Getting Ready to Swoop On Detroit
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Which American City Will Be the Next Detroit?
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Bankrupt Jefferson County Says Creditors Need to Revise Plan
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Here's what Jeffco officials told the three major bond rating agencies in New York on Monday
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Pa. court gets new plan to fix Harrisburg finances --- Harrisburg Receiver Releases Rescue Plan for Insolvent City --- Harrisburg to sell burner, lease parking; no bankruptcy --- For Harrisburg residents, the plusses and minuses of the debt relief deal
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Specter of bankruptcy: Vallejo faced with buying out 2001 water system bond
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EDC votes to let 38 Studios trustee explore claims
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New Orleans Rolling in Cash Sees Rebirth: Real Estate
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Coal:
Bankrupt Patriot posts wider losses in July
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Patriot Coal Corporation Equity Ownership In Patriot Coal Shares Threatened By Bankruptcy Proceedings
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Health Care:
Shutdown of Brooklyn hospital postponed --- Put off to at least Sept. 11
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Student Debt:
Will Twerk For Loan Forgiveness! Ridiculous Responses To Obama’s Fictional Student Debt Plans --- Obama Announces Plan to Forgive All Student Loans :)
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Parents face the student loan double whammy
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Decades to pay off school debt—is it worth it?
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Corporate Reform:
The SEC's New Policy Requiring Admissions of Wrongdoing: What Are the Implications?
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Bove: Banks reeling from 'the government vendetta'
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Justice Dept. Again Signals Interest to Pursue Financial Crisis Cases
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Education:
Judge gives Morris Brown until Sept. 6 to present new reorganization plan
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Morris Brown: No plans to sell dorm for Falcons stadium
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Former Lon Morris College employees set to receive missed wages
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Ethanol:
Buffalo Lake's ethanol plant is sold in bankruptcy
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Pensions:
Fed study boosts pension fight of Delphi's salaried retirees
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Pinching Pensions to Keep Wall Street Fat and Happy
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Tech:
Asset bidding war looms for NY electronics company
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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 (10 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (15 new filings today)
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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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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Puerto Rico bankruptcies drop 2% in July, up 3% YTD
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Avoidance Actions:
I Thought I Went to Law School to Avoid Math: Calculating Recovery in a Chapter 7 Liquidation in the Context of a Preference Action
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Litigation:
Not Certifiable: To Appeal or Not to Appeal, That Is the Question
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TBTF:
What Did AIG's Government Watchdog Know?
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Compensation:
Five Years After TARP, Misgivings on Bonuses
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Banking:
JP Morgan told to pay billionaire Blavatnik $50m in damages
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U.S. judge tosses BofA suit vs FDIC over $1.7 bln investor losses
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Retailing:
J.C. Penney Files Prospectus for Sale of Ackman’s Stake
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Ackman's Pershing Sells Stake in J. C. Penney for $504 Million --- Ackman’s J.C. Penney Sale Ends Failed Saga to Agitate for Change
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Cash Management:
Appeals court brightens odds for customers of bankrupt Sentinel --- Court reverses ruling on Sentinel loan in blow to BNY Mellon
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Agriculture:
Del Monte bids nearly $35 million for Madonia farmland at auction
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Mass Torts:
Jury awards longtime smoker $12.5M in case against Philip Morris
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Finance:
Ebay-Style Peer Loans Spur Wall Street Asset Craze
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Tax:
Geneva Mansions Sell at Discount as Tax Scares Expats
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Sovereigns:
Now things are getting a bit crazy - Argentina style.
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Elliott vs Argentina : Enter the crazy
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Argentina Appeal Loss Brings End of Defaulted Bond Fight Closer
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Argentina rejects court order to pay 'vulture fund' --- Melconian: Vulture funds are 'goodwill people,' Argentina is 'untrustworthy'
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Argentina gains time despite "harsh" ruling
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The Argentinian Debt Crisis in Historical Perspective
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Argentina to Reopen Debt Swap After Adverse U.S. Court Ruling
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Argentine president, spurning US courts, says holders of bad debt can collect in Buenos Aires
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US 'vultures' shake up the world of sovereign debt
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UK:
Estate agency insolvencies 'up 57%' in last year
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English Police Hunt Person Who Killed And Barbecued One of Queen’s Swans
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Kodak bankruptcy might mark beginning of UK pension battle
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EU:
Europe’s Single Bank Rule Book Falls Apart as North Races Ahead
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PIIGS:
Greeks turn to non-EU countries to exit crisis --- Debt of Sisyphus: Greek economy’s coma is a misguided political experiment
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ie: Judge says former Wexford hurler must ‘face up to the realities’ of bankruptcy --- Bankrupt GAA star will face jail if he 'fails to co-operate'
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Start-Ups Fill Void Left by Spain’s 26% Unemployment Rate
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Portugal raises $1.34 billion amid recovery hopes
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Germany:
Sunselex Germany files for insolvency - International subsidiaries are not affected
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German Business Confidence Rises to Highest in 16 Months
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MENA:
Israeli to buy bankrupt Better Place electric-car company
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Obama Holds Syria Accountable in Attack, Kerry Says
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