August 21, 2014

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Law:

The Biggest Wastes Of Money In Document Review
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Michael Best's Paul Lucey joins creditor, debtor firm
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Which students belong in law school? Law prof offers an answer
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Tweets From TTT 1Ls Are The Saddest Thing You’ll Read Today
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Law school graduates give their professors an A, failing grades for job placement
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33 Words And Phrases You Should Never Put On Your LinkedIn Profile
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LinkedIn Law School Rankings?
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Habits Of Remarkably Persuasive People
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Lawprose: y’all (Part 3).
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Former bankruptcy lawyer with no fingerprints faces theft, forgery charges
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Fake law firm websites use real lawyer photos, sometimes alter contact info for actual firm’s page
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Did Your Participation Trophy Ruin Your Life?
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Get Real With Law Firm Marketing — 5 Observations
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Law And Retail
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Ugly Nighttime Scenes Continue on Streets of Ferguson, Missouri --- 'They Threw Urine On Officers': 47 Arrested In Ferguson Amid Another Tense Night --- Dramatic And Bizarre Headlines About Ferguson, Missouri, From All Over The World --- Grand Jury in Brown Shooting to Get Evidence from Prosecutors --- What you need to know about the intensifying legal battles in Ferguson --- The Law That Might Protect The Missouri Cop Who Shot An Unarmed Teen --- Missouri Governor Calls For “Vigorous Prosecution” Before The Completion Of The Investigation Into Ferguson Shooting --- Policeman Suspended For Pointing A Rifle At A Peaceful Protester In Missouri --- Residents Caught In The Middle Of The Ferguson Protest Are Starting To Get Annoyed --- Police Officer To Cameraman In Ferguson: 'I Will F------ Kill You'
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Special Prosecutor Facing Off Against Perry is a Straight Shooter, Say Colleagues --- Texas Titans: A Look at the Texas Players in Perry Case --- Jurors say Perry indictment based on facts, law
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Drone drops phones over prison walls
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Superheros Demand Equal Rights In Gotham
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Lawyer charged in murder-for-hire plot, accused of planning to kill witness in felony barratry case
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Affluenza’ teen’s father busted for impersonating a police officer
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Florida county unanimously bans atheists from delivering invocations, opens door for Spaghetti Monster?
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High school student says she was disciplined for saying ‘bless you’ after classmate sneezed
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Chicago woman found dead in suitcase had received $840K in cruise line settlement
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Police: Alleged Murderer Of Pregnant Woman In California Searched Computer For Ways To Dispose Of A Body
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12-year-old dies from B.B. gun shot to the head
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Judges:

Federal judge likens Anna Nicole Smith case to ‘Bleak House,’ says 20 years of litigation is enough
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Arrested US Judge Embarrassed, Entering Treatment
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This Is Probably The Worst Insult Justice Breyer Has Ever Heard
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Driver takes misdemeanor plea after striking and killing judge on bicycle; should law be upgraded?
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Court-reporting champ has great hands and ‘nerves of steel’
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Wall Street:

US Index Futures Little Changed With S&P 500 Near High
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Stocks push higher in last hour of trading
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Wall Street Banks Lift Pay for Junior Bankers --- Millennial Bankers Get Raises as Firms Fight Defections
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Layoffs:

No Safety Net for Employees in Bryman College Shutdown
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America's Major Shortage Of Truck Drivers Is About To Get Even Worse
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Aviation:

Update: Flight MH370 pilot 'turned off air supply before ditching plane into the sea'?
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TSA Body Scanners Miss Guns, Explosives, Knives
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Gambling:

Where’s the Boardwalk? Ravel Isn’t Revel
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Revel given OK to close
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A Last Look at Atlantic City’s Failed $2.4 Billion (Yes, Billion) Revel Casino
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Caesars Loyalty Program Transfer Will Cause A Fight
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Celebs:

Yellowstone Club Trustee Offers Bounty To Find Blixseth's Missing Millions
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Judge Rejects Sanctions in Anna Nicole Smith Legacy Fight
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Corporate Reform:

Bank of America to Pay $17 Billion in Justice Department Settlement
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Bank of America's $17 Billion Settlement Won't Cost It $17 Billion
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How Will Bank Of America Stock Be Impacted By $17 Billion Justice Department Settlement?
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Debt Collection:

11th Circuit: Debt Buyer Violates FDCPA by Filing Proof of Claim in Bankruptcy Case to Collect on Out-Of-Statute Debt
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Lehman:

Lehman Brokerage Wants New Hearing in Dispute with Barclays
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Telecoms:

Canadian Judge Says Nortel Bondholders Can't Collect Interest
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Agriculture:

8 Farmers File Fraud Lawsuit Against Turner Grain
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Construction:

What to expect from the first meeting of Truland creditors
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Rob Truland says he sought to keep company afloat
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Autos:

GM drops to No. 4 in revenue, No. 3 in sales
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Turnover:

ASARCO Obtains Approval of Order Enjoining Sesa Sterlite
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Economy:

Fed minutes show debate on job market's gains --- Fed notes labor market progress, but not convinced yet --- Fed Dissenters Increasingly Vocal About Inflation Fears --- Five reasons the Fed should raise rates --- The Fed has 10.8 trillion failures --- Some Fed officials favor reduced help for economy --- A new era for Fed policy?
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FOMC Minutes: Most Participants will wait for more data --- The Fed’s July Minutes show it, predictably, inching towards the exit
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US investors look to Jackson Hole, Yellen's speech
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Returns Are Set To Plunge
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Income inequality, and how it hurts economic growth
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Krugman: Inequality Delusions
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Markets Erase Gains After FOMC Minutes
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Aging Americans Boost Share of Population Who Receive Government Benefits
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Subprime Auto Lending Rise Not Yet Worrisome: N.Y. Fed Economists
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Energy-Rich U.S. States Saw Fastest Economic Growth in Late 2013
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Sure, So a Kid May Cost $245,340 to Raise, But Don’t Panic
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‘Trapped Cash’ Phenomenon Labeled an Overstatement
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Manufacturing Slows From Europe to China on Trade Risks
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The 10 Fastest-Growing Private Companies In The US
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

With Rentals in Fashion, Apartment Construction Hits 25-Year High
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Bankruptcy Judge Approves $75M Aventura Office Sale Pushed By 6 Percent Shareholder
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The Feds Are Finally Going After One Of The Most Infamous Executives Of The Financial Crisis
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AIA: Architecture Billings Index increased in July, "Highest Mark Since 2007"
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
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BofA reaches $17 billion settlement over sale of mortgage-backed securities --- Bank of America's $17 billion settlement not as large as it appears
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How the ‘shadow price’ of housing makes some cities more expensive than you’d expect
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Barclays to Pay $23 Million to Settle Thornburg Mortgage Lawsuit
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5 Signs It's Time To Stop Renting And Buy A Home
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Penthouse to Hit Market For $400 Million!
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Municipalities:

Detroit bankruptcy trial to begin Sept. 2
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Will bondholders do deal? Detroit water department to learn today
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About 25 percent of Detroit's water and sewer bonds tendered so far
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Judge changes trial procedure for individuals without attorneys --- Detroit Residents to Take Part in Bankruptcy Trial
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Detroit, police union agree on new contract; members must vote
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Pensioners, Bondholders, and Unfair Discrimination in Municipal Bankruptcy
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Detroit $5.5 bln bond sale readied as bond tender looms
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What is a Lien? Lessons from Municipal Bankruptcy
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DPS to get bridge loan, Benton Harbor schools in financial emergency
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Prayers for Atlantic City as closings, layoffs loom
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CA's Economic Collision Course: Immigration and Water
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Awards:

AlixPartners Honored by Turnaround Management Association For Work at Kodak
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Retailing:

Sears Posts Large Loss as Revenue, Margins Decline --- Sears reports 9th straight quarterly loss
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Lowe's Cuts Sales Forecast
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Target Slashes Full-Year Profit Outlook --- One Thing That's Consistent at Target Lately: Fewer Customers
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Walgreen CFO's departure due to $1 billion forecasting error
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Staples warns of weak sales on low demand for core office supplies --- Staples struggles to stop the bleeding --- Staples to shut 140 stores as online rivals take sales away
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In Falls Church, Eden Center tenants sue landlord, say mall crumbling around them
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Video Games:

GameStop Running Out of Lives
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Banking:

The US Is One Of The Last Developed Countries Where It Can Still Take Days For Money To Show Up In Your Bank Account
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Heavy Equipment:

Caterpillar's Sales Keep Falling
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Nonprofits:

Bankruptcy trustee seeks jury trial for Community Foundation leaders
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Mass Torts:

Claimants’ reps ask them to reject Garlock bankruptcy plan
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Freedom Industries' Insurance Settlement Plan Favors Nonprofits --- Plan Gifts Nonprofits, Ignores Pollution Claims
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Food/Beverage:

Crumbs Bake Shop No Longer Crumbling with Bid From Marcus Lemonis
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Original Twinkies factory to close
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Hotels:

Former Trenton Marriott bankruptcy proceedings end with agreement to pay vendors
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Fraud:

Two DBSI officials are sentenced to prison
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An Ex-Aeropostale Executive Gets 8 Years Prison For Defrauding The Company
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(6 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 (20 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (12 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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Trustees:

Judge Lynn Hughes Removes Bankruptcy Trustee Over Family Trip to New Orleans
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Bankruptcy Reform:

The Consumer Bankruptcy Creditor Distribution Study
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UCC:

The Proposed Bankruptcy Code Amendments and Securitizing Debtors and Their Creditors
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Third Party Release:

Bankruptcy Court Approves Non-consensual Third-party Releases Granted by Unimpaired Parties
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Derivatives:

Calculations on ISDA close-out
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Tax:

Not So Fast! Sixth Circuit Rescinds Award of Tax Refund to Bankruptcy Estate
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Recent Pleadings:

 

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TBTF:

Breaking Up (the Banks) May Not Be Quite So Hard to Do
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Sovereigns:

Who to blame for Argentina's disastrous default? Its lawyers, of course
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Argentina and the Swap Puzzle
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Argentina's Debt Drama: The Plan to Exit Default --- Argentina Holdouts Call Latest Plan 'Affront' to Court --- Argentina : US Accountable For Judge's "Illegal Act" In Debt Case --- Escape from New York, pari passu edition
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Argentina Has Started To Go Totally Rogue
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Escalating to Nowhere?
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Argentina's default strategy raises debt acceleration risk --- Debt ‘acceleration’ turns into issue while new swap splits opposition
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'We should be asking Griesa for BoNY deposits'
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Gov't says 'contempt ruling' inapplicable to Argentina
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Argentina bonds, peso reel on country's debt swap plan
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Argentina's Bonds Decline on Plan to Offer Local-Law Swap --- Argentina country risk edges higher on JP Morgan Index --- Argentina's Last Bond Exchange Went So Well It's Doing Another
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Argentina Bond Payment Plan Met With Skepticism in Market --- Bondholders Not Optimistic About Argentina's New Scheme --- Italian bondholders praise jurisdiction change
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Argentina in latest debt default crisis pits 'motherland' against 'vultures'
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Scioli supports debt payment bill, says VFs 'ravaged' Argentina
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Macri on paying bondholders in BA: ‘This is clearly not the way’
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Aurelius: 'Argentine leaders have chosen to be outlaws'
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Three Views for Argentine Bondholders on to Swap or Not to Swap
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Argentina moves to cut out US hedge funds
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Argentina says proposed debt bill does not break contracts
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Kicillof warns 'no change of payment jurisdiction'
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CFK tables bill to bring debt jurisdiction back home
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Cristina Fernandez blasts those who invest in the 'illegal currency' (US dollar)
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Tearful Argentine president fights back – and the law is on her side
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UK:

Carney Seen Holding Sway as BOE Dissenters Pull Away From Pack
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Verbally bullying husbands face jail under new proposals
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EU:

Europe Is Failing
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PIIGS:

Ailing Fish Farmer Shows Gaps in Greek Bankruptcy Regime
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Portugal borrows at record low rates, despite BES rescue
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When PIIGS fly, everything you know about euro crisis is wrong
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Canada:

Sears Canada widens Q2 loss to $21.3 million
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Charges Laid in 'Bust-Out' Bankruptcy Fraud Investigation
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MENA:

The Men Who Killed James Foley
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Obama rebukes Islamic State, vows to continue airstrikes --- Obama says Islamic State is 'a cancer,' U.S. will do what it must --- Obama: 'The entire world is appalled' --- We Will 'See That Justice Is Done' --- Will Obama punish ISIS for James Foley's murder?
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ISIS barbarians demanded $100M ransom for Foley's life
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U.S. Tried to Rescue Slain Journalist
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Flashy Qatar Is Being Blamed For The Collapse Of Israel-Gaza Talks
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Brazil:

Batista’s MMX to Halt Work at Mine as Iron-Ore Falls
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China:

China's Top Graft Buster Probing Thousands
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Bulgaria:

Half of Bulgarians don't trust the local banking system: poll
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