Law:
Despite Pressures, In-Housers a Mostly Happy Lot
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More GCs Expected to Triage Legal Expenditures in the Year Ahead, ACC Chief Legal Officer 2014 Survey Reveals
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What do Law Students Think About Law School?
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Law School Enacts Scary And Stupid Alcohol Prohibitions
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Law Students ‘Party’ Hard, Win Drinking Competition
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No Easy Answers for Challenges Facing Law Schools
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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Give Your Law Professor The Finger
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Is The Tiger Mother A Tabby Cat?
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Lawyerly Lairs: A MoFo Partner’s Badass Crib
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Telephone Talk: Five Tips for Lawyers
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Big Law Leaders “Get It”? Seriously?
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CLO Pay Down, Challenges Mounting in ACC Survey
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Do You Recognize Your Horrible Boss?
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5th Circuit nixes tax shelter used by 3 attorneys to keep more of $600M legal fee award --- If You Win A Massive Judgment, Try Not To Put It Into An Illegal Tax Shelter
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Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
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Police: Pizza Hut manager spit on food ordered by cop who arrested her for DUI
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Millionaire convicted of murder is sued again to keep $13.5M unpaid judgment alive
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Thieves Are Stealing Cars Left Running In Cold Weather
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Tired SWAT Police Give Up On Battering Ram, Just Ask To Be Let In
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Police Find Hundreds Of Snakes In Home Of California Man Accused Of 'Animal Hoarding'
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Remains of 55 are exhumed at notorious reform school, 24 more than records showed were buried there
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Business Sues Customer For $750,000 Over Negative Yelp Review
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Cops: McDonald's Worker Sold Heroin In Happy Meals At Drive-Thru
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Man Asks Ex-Wife to Stay On As His Housekeeper
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Panel recommends suspending judge accused of using office to promote religious business
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Bankruptcy Judges Honored
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Which justices skipped the State of the Union?
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Delay Continues on U.S. Judges
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Strine Confirmed as Delaware Chief Justice
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Supreme Court Ousts Attorney Who Sued to Oust Obama
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Wall Street:
US stock futures tick higher Thursday
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Stocks dip lower after Fed stimulus announcement --- Fed Tapers And Stocks Dive
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Layoffs:
Who Are The Long-Term Unemployed? (In 3 Graphs)
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Patch Lays Off Hundreds of Journalists
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Texas Led Nation in Job Growth for 2013
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The Myth of Wage Stagnation
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Listen to Hundreds of Journalists Getting Fired
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Weather:
Atlanta: 1 day after storm, highways still gridlock --- Photos Of Abandoned Cars In Georgia And Alabama
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What Northeners Need To Understand About The Snow Traffic Disaster In Atlanta
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Experts Reveal All The Reasons Behind Atlanta's Snow Gridlock Nightmare
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As Courts Close Again Thursday, Judges Recount Their Gridlock Journeys
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This Is The Best Explanation We've Seen For Why All Of Atlanta Is Stuck In Traffic
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Snow Causes 6-Hour Delays At Atlanta Airport, The World's Busiest
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13 Examples Of People Being Awesome In The Middle Of The Atlanta Traffic Jam
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Here's What It's Like To Be Stuck For 10 Hours In Traffic Before Spending The Night In A Home Depot
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Woman Trapped In House For Weeks After Door Becomes Iced
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Mass Torts:
W.R. Grace Gets Court Approval on Bankruptcy Exit Financing
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W.Va. official: People are inhaling formaldehyde after spill
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US lawmakers send letter to FEMA requesting financial aid
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Wrongful death claimants in Lac-Megantic disaster want George Mitchell to oversee allocation of railroad’s funds
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Tax:
IRS customer service leaves millions of calls unanswered
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Gambling:
Is Caesars in the running for bust Revel casino in NJ?
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Awards:
Choate, Hall & Stewart Receives 2013 “Restructuring Deal of the Year” Award from The M&A Advisor
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Ben Mann Named an American College of Bankruptcy Fellow
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster Lives on in Mexico as Upscale Chain
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Economy:
Parsing the Fed: How the Statement Changed --- Fed continues taper as Bernanke's term ends --- Fed trims bond-buying to $65 billion a month --- Fed Officials Unite Behind Taper as Yellen Era Begins
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Timeline: Fed's Bernanke saw U.S. economy through turbulent times
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Businesses Hem and Haw Over Spending
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Fed Sets Bar on Tapering
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Tom Perkins Was Right: We Do Hate the Rich. And For Good Reason
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Michele Bachmann Demonstrates Why We Can't Have A Real Conversation About Entitlements
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Rate Increases Fail to Stop the Bleeding in Emerging Markets
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Foreclosures Were Down 24% In 2013
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Subprime Called Safer Makes Comeback as 'Nonprime'
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Retiring Lehman Judge Approves Fannie Settlement
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5 Things You Need to Know About Home Prices
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5 Things That Will Help New-Home Sales This Year
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Lindemuth's tab: $40.6M owed to Topeka-area banks
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Silverstein Seeks New Debt Deal for World Trade Center Complex
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One Bal Harbour Resort Sold, Racketeering Claims Against Former Owner Remain
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New Jersey Tax Lien Foreclosures Subject to Claw Back
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Municipalities:
Detroit's bankruptcy moving forward --- Detroit sends its plan out of bankruptcy to creditors --- Detroit sends blueprint for way out of bankruptcy
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Detroit May File $18 Billion Bankruptcy Plan in Two Weeks
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Detroit museum pledges to raise $100M for rescue fund
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Detroit Institute of Arts Devises Ways to Save Its Art
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Detroit seeing uptick in conventions, visitors
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Bankruptcy judge allows case involving Detroit officer's killing to proceed
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Once-Broke Pennsylvania Capital Prepares Muni Market Return
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17 CA Communities May Run Out Of Water In 60 Days
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Carey Davis has right stuff to lead San Bernardino from bankruptcy
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Placentia, facing fiscal disaster, vows it will not go bankrupt
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Autos:
Profit warning shows remodeled Fiat-Chrysler faces rocky road
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Financial Privacy:
Feds investigating Target data breach
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Banking:
Chapter 11 Strategies Increasingly Appeal to Banks in Need of Recapitalization
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Fraud:
Jumping Through Hoops to Get Trustee Standing in Ponzi Scheme Cases
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Chicago accountant charged with insider trading
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Madoff Victims' Group Seeks to Opt Out of JPMorgan Deal
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Madoff Programmers Sought to ’Drag Out’ Probe, Jury Told
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Some Madoff Investors Shun J.P. Morgan Settlement
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What It's Like To Watch Mathew Martoma's Trial For A Day
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SAC Trader Called to Try to Distance Martoma From Trades
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Scott Rothstein, Stuart Rosenfeldt To Testify At Trial Of Former Partner
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K&L Gates OKs settlement of $23.7M in LeNature’s legal malpractice case
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Food/Beverage:
Why You Should Be Drinking More Coffee
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Health Care:
Insurance giant WellPoint Says Health-Law Customers Match Projections
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Corporate Reform:
Will Hedge Funds Drive More Mortgage Fraud Litigation Against Big Banks?
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Retailing:
Report: JCPenney Is Jacking Up Prices To Fatten Discounts
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Target says hackers stole credentials from vendor
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Celebs:
How Do NFL Players Go From Millionaires to Bankrupt?
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Rail:
MM&A Derailment Victims' Families File Payment Plan
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What does buyer see in small, bankrupt Maine railway?
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Pensions:
First Circuit Holds Private Equity Fund Responsible For Portfolio Company's Unfunded Multiemployer Pension Obligations
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With Detroit Eligible For Chapter 9, Pensions In Jeopardy
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Religion:
Philly to Dallas: Ex-Priest a Brutal Abuser
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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 (33 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (11 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:
Overall Bankruptcy Filings Down 12 Percent in Calendar Year 2013, Ch. 11s Down 13.3%, Business Filings Down 17.1%
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The Year In Review: U.S. Business Bankruptcies In 2013
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Albany: Capital Region bankruptcies sink to seven-year low
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:
International Restructuring NewsWire
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Avoidance Actions:
Did I Do That? When It Comes to Affiliation, Family Matters. (So, Too, May the Definition of “Corporation.”)
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Safe Harbors:
Storm Warnings for 'Safe Harbor' of Bankruptcy Code Section 546(e)
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Lyondell Bankruptcy Court Holds That Safe Harbors Do Not Prohibit Creditors From Asserting State Law Constructive Fraudulent Transfer Claims
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Has Section 546(e) Safe Harbor Finally Reached Its Outer Limits?
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Sales:
Fisker Automotive Puts the Brakes on Distressed Investors' Right to Credit Bid
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Finance:
Enforcement of Make-Whole Provisions in Bankruptcy: The Importance of Careful Drafting
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Turnover:
Debtor Required to Turnover Property She No Longer Possessed
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Cross-Border:
Using Chapter 11 to Restructure Non-US and Multinational Companies
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Recognition Affirmed In First Chapter 15 Case Considered By The Third Circuit
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Fourth Circuit Concludes That Applying Section 365(n) In A Foreign Proceeding Was Reasonable
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Second Circuit Vacates Order Granting Recognition To A Foreign Proceeding
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Claim Allowance:
The Third Circuit Finds That A Transferred Claim Remains Subject To Disallowance
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Recent Pleadings:
Mayer Brown Gets Dinged: "Given the fact that the items billed for, and the number of hours allegedly spent on them, is incredible, the court finds there is no basis to award any fee"
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TBTF:
Ex- AIG CEO loses appeal of bailout lawsuit vs NY Fed
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The SEC Released Files On Its Probe Into AIG — And Everything Is Ridiculously Redacted --- Request to SEC for AIG Files Nets Heavily Redacted Documents
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Litigation:
Nitty Gritty Discovery Requests
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Sovereigns:
Singer Blasts Gramercy's Argentina Proposal, Blasts Min. Wage Hike, Lawlessness, Bitcoin
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UK:
RBS GRG: Tomlinson Reveals 1,000 More Firms Accuse Bank of Engineering Bankruptcy
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The New Challenge With Defining Insolvency in the UK
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Creditor chases Solarstrom UK unit
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Asset realizations in insolvency procedures
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Scotland, the U.K.’s Next Big Economic Union Question
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A&O tops law firm branding league table
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EU:
English Schemes of Arrangement Expand to Continental Europe and Beyond
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ECB Paper Defends Embattled SMP Bond-Buying Program
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PIIGS:
Restructuring ELA Liabilities: Lessons From Ireland --- No cases for €140k-a-year judges
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Germany:
German Joblessness Falls More Than Forecast as Economy Grows
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Austria:
Austrian finance minister opposes Hypo insolvency
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Emerging Markets:
Leaders Of Emerging Market Countries Are Going Into Denial
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Russia:
Bank Run Fears Escalate as Russian Lender Bans Cash Withdrawals
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Brazil:
BlackRock No Longer Part of OGP Creditors Group
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China:
Chinese Manufacturing Contracts --- Index at six month low
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Shadow Banking: China's Foundation Problem
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Australia:
Australian wine grape growers being 'forced into insolvency '
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