December 30, 2013

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Law:

Nixon Peabody and Blank Rome in merger talks -sources
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'I Didn't Really Know How Screwed I Was Until I Was Almost Done With Law School'
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Shearman, Kirkland Help Land $1.4 Billion Beechcraft Sale
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Dechert Lawyer Helped Keep Mergers on Track
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Business of Law
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3 Essential Steps For Choosing A Practice Area (And Obtaining Any Legal Job)
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Always Follow The Rules
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"No Offered" Still Carries Stigma: Legal sector remains rigid
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Recession Rebound: Managing Partner Survey Shows Positive Growth Trend
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Teaching Brian Leiter About The Internet
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Law School Grad Forced Into Retail Job Blogs The Loss Of His 'Last Shred Of Dignity'
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4 Things You Should Do When Putting Together A Counter-Offer
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How To Pack A Suit
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Stop Spending Time With Toxic People
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21 Tips And Tricks Every New iPhone Owner Should Know
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Cops: Teen Pulled Knife on Dad After Not Getting iPhone for Christmas
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Greenwald: A Lot More NSA Docs to Come --- The NSA Uses Powerful Toolbox in Effort to Spy on Global Networks --- 10 Most Shocking NSA Revelations
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Plot Twist in Sherlock Holmes Case
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Divorce lawyers warn of dangerous festive season texts
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Lawyer faces flogging
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Woman Stoned To Death for Possessing a Cell Phone
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Our racist criminal justice system in one chart
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Woman Accused of Stabbing Beerless Man With Ceramic Squirrel
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Lanza's Mother, Loving but Bewildered
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Spain Arrests Eight Over $60 Million Global Bank Cyber Heists
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Judges:

Announcement For SD NY Bankruptcy Judge Openings
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Pathways to the Bench: U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey P. Hopkins
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Judges Who Split on NSA Surveillance Hail from Opposite Parties
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Judge Blasts Plaintiffs Lawyers in Talbots Deal Case
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Tx. Judge Charged with Assault in Dallas
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Justice Sotomayor to push Times Square Ball button
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Wall Street:

US Stock Futures Little Changed
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Markets Are Going Nowhere
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US stocks end flat as Fed rally cools; Dow slips 0.01%
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Great advice for overworked Wall Streeters
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10 Real Wall Street Stories That Should Be Movies
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10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell
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Layoffs:

The 20 Unhappiest Jobs In America
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10 jobs poised for explosive growth
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1.3 Million Americans Lost Unemployment Benefits Over The Weekend --- Bill Pushed to Extend Jobless Benefits --- Where the 1.3 million people losing unemployment aid this week live
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:

Shoppers still hitting stores with gift cards, bargain hunting
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Why Target Is a Target
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Hotels:

Closing on bankruptcy sale of Red Rose Inn set for Monday
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Board of Lafayette Yard Hotel in Trenton spent $700,000 on professional fees during bankruptcy
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Corporate Governance:

New California LLC Law Requires Members to Reconsider Their Operating Agreement - Addresses Effect Of Member's Bankruptcy
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Banking:

FDIC Orders AztecAmerica in Ill. to Raise Capital or Find Buyer
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The Oldest Bank In the World Is On The Verge Of Collapsing
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Aviation:

Details of Textron/Beechcraft merger still in play
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Textron Financing $1.1 Billion in Beech Deal
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Textron: Too soon to say if Beechcraft faces cuts
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What’s to happen with American Eagle Airlines?
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Oil/Gas:

Lone Pine seeks US OK for reorganization
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Pimco Turns Wildcatter as OGX Creditor Losses Reach 99%
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Environmental:

Contaminants detected in Asarco El Paso neighborhood soil
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Economy:

Goldman's Top Economists Just Answered The Most Important Questions For 2014 — And Boy Are His Answers Bullish
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Goldman: Here's What Will Happen With GDP, Housing, The Fed, And Unemployment Next year
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Most Americans Say Economy Not Improving
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Americans on Wrong Side of Income Gap Run Out of Means to Cope
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The 25 Most Failed States On Earth
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Globalization In Four Sentences
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Florida Set to Pass New York to Become No. 3 Largest State in US
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Two Americas Moving in Opposite Directions
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China Economy Will Eclipse America in 2028
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Here's The Gap Between America's Poor And The Upper Class In China
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5 Companies That May Not Survive Past 2014
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Democrats turn to minimum wage as 2014 strategy --- Minimum wage to rise in 13 states
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Saving Most Popular Among Lower-Income Americans
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Mortgagee Relief From the Automatic Stay: “Cause” Is In the Eye of the Beholder – Namely the Court
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Mortgage Rate Swings May Mean "Bumpy" 2014 Housing Market
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The Convergence Of 3 Factors Is Driving A Worldwide Retirement Crisis --- Global retirement crisis: What it means from Tokyo to Paris --- How the notion of retirement for workers took root --- How retirement systems vary, country to country
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Will we see easier mortgage lending in 2014?
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Ending extension for federal unemployment triggers housing concerns
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Nov. home sales fall to a 5-year low in Vegas
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Municipalities:

Judges' skills reap $65m bonus for Detroit
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Young PR pros on loan get big-time immersion in Detroit bankruptcy
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Eight Implications of a Detroit Bankruptcy
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Why haven't conservatives spoken up for pensioners?
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Two Detroit pension funds file expedited appeal for city's bankruptcy --- Pension funds want speedy appeal of eligibility issue
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Lawyer sues Harrisburg, Pennsylvania over unpaid bankruptcy fees
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Reimagining Detroit: Duggan must get used to the idea of having less power than past mayors
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China Steps Up Presence in Detroit
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DIA's future intertwined with Detroit's
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In California, another city is crippled by pension costs
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Yvonne Parks still optimistic about future of Desert Hot Springs --- Police Salaries and Pensions Push California City to Brink
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New York hedge fund that owns a whole town needs smooth exit
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SB County: Bankruptcy will be major issue for 2014
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Flint emergency manager wants to make city the model for way to govern
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US muni bond sales drop 15 pct in 2013 - preliminary data
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Problems Mount for Muni Bond Investors
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Morningstar: Our Outlook for the Municipal Markets
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Health Care:

W.Va. hospital seeks extension in bankruptcy case
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Potential buyers look at Saint Francis Hospital
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2 Saint Francis Hospital Executives Owed $564k in Severance
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Westchester Med shows interest in St. Francis
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More St. Francis employees join union
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Federal health market surpasses 1 million sign-ups --- Enrollments rise sharply in December --- Obamacare's Next Big Test Comes New Year's Day
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Historic Coverage Expansion to Test Promise of Obamacare
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Fraud:

Dreier Scam Victims Face a Cold New Year
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Madoff victims learn chances of payment Jan. 10
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How 'The Wolf of Wall Street' ruined this woman's life
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"Wolf of Wall Street" - The supposed good guys/girls aren't hot
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Stage set for a new Wolf of Wall Street
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Scott Rothstein testimony carries high price
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California Woman Convicted in $9.5 Million Ponzi Scheme
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For the Elderly, an Epidemic of Fraud
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Ethanol:

Ethanol loses friends and key support in fuel wars
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Waste:

$1 million deal would put new owner in charge of Richfield Landfill
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Celebs:

40 Celebrities Who Are Total Cheapskates
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Bankruptcy fraud results in federal prison
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Personal Finance:

4 money resolutions to make now
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 new opinion today - DBN)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (12 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (21 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:

The Nashville area's biggest bankruptcies of 2013
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Claim Allowance:

Why Wright Was Wrong: How the Third Circuit Misinterpreted the Bankruptcy Code . . . Again
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Jurisdiction:

Executive Benefits Insurance Agency v. Arkison: Inside the Case
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Litigation:

Litigation Hold Letters Sent to Third Parties Are Privileged
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Perils of E-Discovery Reflected in Sanctions Opinion
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Rail:

‘I was also a victim’: Head of railway at centre of deadly Lac-Megantic disaster says he’s suffered, too
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Music:

Simply Awesome
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Corporate Reform:

Small banks among those hit by Volcker Rule twist
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US regulator fines Barclays over faulty record keeping
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Compensation:

Apple strips CEO Cook of $4M in stock grants for poor share performance
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Gambling:

'14 starts ominously for NJ casinos as gov watches
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Advertising:

KSL Creditors Committee: The Fish Stinks From The Head Down
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Telecoms:

LightSquared Proposes New Financing as Way to Emerge From Bankruptcy
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Alternative Energy:

Acquisition and Insolvency: More Reshuffling in the PV Monitoring Market
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PIIGS:

Monte dei Paschi Holders OK Capital Raising
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UK:

Study: Debt Crisis Will Hurt Millions
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UK: Rising Household Debt Cause for Alarm
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Distressed business buyers take note: more retailers facing trouble
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UK to overtake German economy
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Osborne: Britain fights back
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Leslie set to be first Scots woman to lead UK's IPA
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EU:

Distress specialists eye value in Europe
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PIIGS:

Greece: Tax authorities target deposits --- Dozens of hotels on sale despite record tourism year --- Bundesbank chief says no to Greek haircut, yes to reforms --- One of Two Greeks Wants to Emigrate --- Extreme Poverty Rises in Greece --- Greek Traders: “Unemployment in Greece is Sky High” --- Greeks Quit Eating Out --- Many Greek Resorts Empty for New Year’s
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ie: Hundreds seeking insolvency hit by delay --- Just eleven debt resolutions initiated in court
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Monte Paschi faces nationalization threat after cash call delay
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France:

French Court Approves 75% Company Tax On Salaries Over $1.3 Million
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The real problem with France's 75% tax
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Japan:

TEPCO turnaround hinges on nuclear plant restart
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Japan's Homeless Recruited For Murky Fukushima Clean-Up
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China:

China local government debt hits $3 trillion
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China's debt explosion
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