Law:
Associate Bonus Watch: Kirkland & Ellis Returns To Shattering The Bonus Market Ceiling
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Associate Bonus Watch: Quinn Emanuel (2014)
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Those Hefty Associate Bonuses - Note, Base Pay Hasn't Been Raised
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10 Predictions For 2015
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Business of Law
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Chicago: This law firm is growing like a weed
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‘The Gilded Age of Biglaw’: Biglaw Culture Breeds Big Bonuses, But Little Diversity
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Unpaid Farmers Sue Allens’ Bankruptcy Advisers
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Proskauer Cases Reflect Efforts to Put Firms on Defensive
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America’s Richest Lawyer Is An Inappropriate SOB Who Loves To Drop F-Bombs
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Benefits Law Firm Files for Bankruptcy
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Litigation Finance: Understanding Champerty, Maintenance, And Barratry
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Secretary Gifts: What To Get Your Assistant for the Holidays
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Lawyers Like Google, But Prefer Paid Research Tools
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Here's What To Say In Your LinkedIn 'Summary' Statement
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Last-Minute Shoppers Unite! The Ultimate Round-Up of Gift Lists for Lawyers
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Stat Of The Week: Dumber Law Students Or A Stupid Test?
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The Last Time So Few People Were Starting Law School, It Was 1973 (When There Were 53 Fewer Law Schools)
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Declining interest leads LSU Law to look at cutting costs
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Law school enrollment plummets to 27-year low, ABA says --- How Can Law Schools Survive?
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Tuition Dollars At Work: Pics Of NYU Law’s Over-The-Top Faculty Party
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Low Enrollment: A Dream for Law School Hopefuls?
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Law Schools - Story Is Their Slow Response To Structural Change In Legal Sector, Not Decline In Students
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Best Jobs For Every Personality
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Career Choices You Will Regret
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Ferguson Grand Jury Heard Witnesses Who Lied, Prosecutor Says --- Did Robert McCulloch Just Admit To Suborning Perjury??
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Suspect in NYPD Killings Noted Garner, Brown Cases --- Obama Condemns Killing of Two New York Officers --- The New York Cop Killer Made A Chilling Statement To Passersby Before His Ambush --- NYPD Officers Turn Their Backs On Mayor De Blasio --- NYC mourns officers as rift widens between police, mayor
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U.S. Executions in 2014 Dip to 20-Year Low
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Ferris Bueller’s day in Court
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Woman who stopped car to help ducks gets jail time for causing fatal accident
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Orangutan Declared A ‘Person’, Granted Right To Freedom
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Posner on greatness
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Review of justices' email after p--- scandal finds nothing else inappropriate
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Top state court temporarily suspends judge without pay, orders her not to practice law
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Judge who flashed badge at police officer claims selective DUI prosecution, but jury convicts her
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Wall Street:
Jefferies May Be Headed Toward Junk Credit Rating, Moody’s Says
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The Unofficial Goldman Sachs 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:
Alleged Ponzi schemer used money to put wife on ice
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$13M Payback: Judge Approves Rothstein Bankruptcy Distribution
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Gambling:
Caesars plans mid-January bankruptcy filing --- Main Caesars unit plans to seek bankruptcy protection
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Caesars, Asset Stripping Allegations, and Absolute vs Relative Priority
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Caesars Credit-Swaps Payout Ruling Sought After Payment Skip
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Caesars faces rough road as re-org, bankruptcy looms
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Caesars Said to Sign Bankruptcy Deal With Senior Creditors
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Carl Icahn injects $20M into Trump Taj Mahal --- Despite lack of customers, Taj Mahal still in business
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Power supplier wants OK to end Revel energy service
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Financial Privacy:
How The Hackers Broke Into Sony And Why It Could Happen To Any Company
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Hackers To Sony: If You Make Any More Trouble, We'll Destroy You
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Celebs:
Jailed ex-billionaire's lawyers seek his release
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'Sharktank''s Daymond John Explains The Anatomy Of A Bankruptcy
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SEC Loses Bid for Larger Forfeiture From Wyly Brothers
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Mark Cuban Threatened To Leave Shark Tank Over Sony's 'Insulting' $30,000 Per Episode Offer
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Lil Kim IRS Tax Bill Bankrupts Net Worth after K. Michelle Instagram Feud?
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Education:
Arizona State Completes Deal for Troubled Business School - University to Pay Off $22 Million in Debts Owed by Thunderbird
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How two words stir controversy on federal plan to rate US colleges
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Economy:
Fed: Yellen's Christmas Gift for Wall Street
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Kocherlakota: The Fed Risks Going Down The Same Road As Japan And Europe
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Credit Card Markets Rebound as U.S. Economy Improves
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Most US States Are Seeing Jobs Growth, But New Unemployment Numbers Don’t Tell The Whole Story
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This Is What GDP Growth Looks Like Around The World
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Fed Official Warns of Risk from Hasty Rate Increase
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America's Worst Run Companies
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US Made $15bn From Bailouts
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Mortgage Recording: What Happens When There Is An Extra “E”?
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Highland Wins $40 Million Verdict in Credit Suisse Case --- Jury faults Credit Suisse in Lake Las Vegas refinancing
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Looking back, the housing industry is totally Scrooged
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FHA loans could face "tidal wave of defaults"
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Fitch Ratings: Housing in Texas and California are officially overvalued
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America’s housing market value soars to $27.5 trillion
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10 Up-And-Coming US Housing Markets To Watch In 2015
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Couple earns court victory over mortgage debt ‘vulture’ investor
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In wake of class action filing, Philadelphia DA drops effort to forfeit some homes
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Joplin: Indicted developer tries to gain jail release
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Municipalities:
Judge Rhodes Reflects on Detroit Case
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$100 Million Cézanne Secret Detroit Bankruptcy Sale By Ford House
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Detroit bankruptcy a gift to social studies teachers
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Tent city sprouts in shadow of downtown Detroit
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Duggan bus tour shows governor the new Detroit
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Public Pensions Are America's Greece
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Oil Prices Might Mess with Texas
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Kansas: Brownback to Use Pension Money for Budget Shortfalls He Created
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Oil/Gas:
Will Oil Price Drop Trigger Change for Law Firms?
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Saudi oil chief: No conspiracy behind oil prices --- Saudi Arabia: We'll never cut oil production
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Oil rebounds above $62, tracking broader markets
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Chart: Proven Oil Reserves
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The Energy Sector Goes into Survival Mode
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Citing low oil prices, 2nd company halts shale drilling
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Gulf Oil Exporters Blame Non-OPEC Producers for Glut
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Why the Oil Rout Has Spread - Economists See Benefits of Cheaper Oil. But Before the Gain, Markets Feel the Pain
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Fundamentals Aren't Causing Oil Price Slide
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The Number Of US Oil Rigs In Use Fell Again
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Marks: Oil Prices Expose Debt's Weaknesses
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Gas Below $2 at Some Stations in 24 States
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Corporate Reform:
Volcker blasts delay in banks' compliance
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Whistleblowers Score a Big Payday - Three Individuals, One Firm to Receive $170 Million in Bank of America Probe
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5 Things to Know About How the Government Got $37 Billion From Three Big Banks
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Retailing:
3 Trends That Are Killing Teen Retail
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Staples says security breach may have affected 1.16 million cards
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OH: Rolling Acres Mall bankruptcy dismissed; county again to try for sheriff’s sale
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Aviation:
American Flight Attendants Helped Doug Parker - So He Pays Them Back --- American Airlines CEO Agrees to $81 Million in Pay Raises for Flight Attendants
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Student Debt:
6 Things Private Lenders Don't Tell You About Student Loans
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Religion:
Franciscan Order On Verge Of Bankruptcy After Financial Fraud Uncovered, Tens Of Millions Missing, Invested Offshore
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Milwaukee archdiocese reaches $2.3M settlement with insurers; half proposed for abuse victims
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Healthcare:
How Nonprofit Hospitals Are Seizing Patients' Wages
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Shipping:
Overseas Shipholding Group Announces Board and Management Changes
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Golf:
The future of golf: Handicapped
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Asset Protection:
Denman Creates Confusion For Bankrupt Debtor's Interest In LLC
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Bankruptcy Considerations In Asset Protection Planning
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Autos:
Auto Loan Delinquency Rates Expected to Increase in 2015
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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 (24 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (19 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:
(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:
The Week Ahead
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Weil: 2014 - Bankruptcy and Restructuring Annual Review
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Bankruptcy Reform:
ABI Commission Proposes Changes That Would Change Bankruptcy for Secured Creditors
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Plan Confirmation:
Determining the Cramdown Interest Rate: The Burden is on the Creditor
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Dismissal:
Structured Dismissals – How They Work Part II: Proving That Cause Exists to Dismiss the Case Under Section 1112(b)
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Avoidance Actions:
The 'Triggering Event Test' in Bankruptcy
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Recent Pleadings:
9th Cir. Agrees To En Banc In Case Involving Legal Fees For Debtor In Appeal Of Stay Violation --- The Prior Ruling
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Corporate Governance:
Insolvent Company Directors’ Duties to Creditors Under Delaware Law
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The GC's Role in Firing the CEO
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Why 60% Of America's Companies Are Incorporated In One State
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TBTF:
Bank Bailouts Approach a Final Reckoning - Treasury Sells Remaining Stake in Ally, Last Major Holding in Financial-Crisis Bailout Program --- Ally's Six-Year Bailout to End as U.S. Will Sell Stake
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U.S. ends TARP with $15.3 billion profit
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Fresh Doubt Over the Bailout of A.I.G.
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Marijuana manager hid $1 million then filed bankruptcy
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Politics:
Populists Press Democrats to Ease Clinton-Era Embrace of Bankers
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Distressed Investing:
The Vulture Spread Premium: Distressed Investors’ Impact on Recovery Rates and Bond Prices
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Tax:
How Bad Would an IRS Shutdown Be?
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Federal judge to FedEx, HSBC and others: Produce any info on U.S. taxpayers who used an offshore service to evade federal taxes
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Sovereigns:
Oil Shakes Venezuelan Debt to Its Foundations
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UK:
Boxing tycoon Barry Hughes goes bankrupt
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Opencast coal 'crisis'
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Businesses are showing more signs of growth but the recovery remains uneven, say insolvency experts
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Here's What London Bankers' Year-End Bonuses Will Look Like Before The New Bonus Cap Comes Into Effect
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EU:
Banks to shun ECB easy money as regulation bites
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PIIGS:
Who lost Greece
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Mortgage arrears may be caused by Irish banks' leniency
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Receivership 'boom' as fees paid by NAMA hit €66m
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Fallen billionaire Sean Quinn now back working for the firm that carries his name
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Spain's Princess Cristina Is Going To Court Over Tax Fraud Charges
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Russia:
There's A Problem With Russia's Foreign Currency Reserves
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For Russia’s economy, the worst is yet to come
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Russia's Central Bank Is Risking A 'Full-Scale Banking Crisis'
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Companies In These Countries Have The Most Exposure To Russia
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Obama Orders Ban on Trade with Crimea
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Ukraine:
Ukraine's Rating Cut by S&P as IMF Delay Raises Default Risk
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Belarus:
Belarus takes extreme measures to stem currency panic
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