Law:
US top court to hear Bank of America cases on second mortgages in bankruptcy --- Dealing with “underwater” mortgages --- Probably No Strip-Offs After Supremes Rule
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Bingham To Go Bust In Wake Of Morgan Lewis Raid
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As Bingham Partners Prepare for Exodus, Some Find Themselves Frozen
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Morgan Lewis Takes 'Hybrid' Approach in Growing Law Firm
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Blank Rome Adds Veteran Bankruptcy Attorney in New York
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NY Law Firm Equity Partners: Your Services Have No (Reasonably Equivalent) Value
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Practice Management Takes Hold in Small and Mid-Size Firms
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Bankruptcy Judge Asks Ninth Circuit to Rule on "Unfinished Business"
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Aging Attorneys Taking Toll on Legal Profession
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Law Departments Look at the Future, Like What They See
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Jackson Lewis to Eliminate Billable Hours for Associates
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Deals Heat Up for Lawyers Like It's 1998: Business of Law
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The Problem of Inflating Billable Hours
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Fashion Law Is Becoming A Ridiculously Profitable Industry
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US firms set to gain as exits mount from DLA Piper’s London litigation team
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Confidence soars among UK law firms
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Repairing In-house/Outside Counsel Trust Breakdowns
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Law firm expresses confidence in just outcome after its managing partner and his wife were stabbed --- Lawyer Who Allegedly Stabbed Law Firm’s Managing Partner Was Arrested Wearing Only A Diaper --- Alecia Schmuhl charged with stabbing claims she was forced to do it
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3 Ways Senior Partners Cheat
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American Surveillance Now Threatens American Business
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Law School Threatens To Report Student Lunch Thieves To State Bar
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Difficult jobs market drives applications to top law schools
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UK: Law has among the lowest proportion of privately educated students of any degree subject
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15 Android Apps That Will Make Your iPhone Friends Jealous
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Here's What Businesses Really Want From The iPad
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BlackBerry Says 'No' To Kim Kardashian
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Apple People And Android People Even Eat Different Foods
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It Only Takes 5 Minutes To Become A Morning Person
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Over 8,000 People Already Use Facebook's 'Secret' New Project: Facebook At Work
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Protesters mob courthouse where grand jury weighs Ferguson case: ‘We want an indictment’ --- Missouri gov declares 'emergency' ahead of grand jury
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Lawyer sued by former firm in claimed $2.3M fake billing scheme now faces mail fraud case
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Man who fell out of reclining chair during deposition loses negligence case against law firm
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FBI isn’t the only federal agency going undercover; investigators pose as lawyers, SCOTUS protesters
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Fortune-Tellers - When Stress Trumps Common Sense (and even having a law degree)
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Lawyer is disbarred for ‘inexplicable incompetence’ (see video)
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Lawyer Who Quit His Job To Follow The Knicks Claims He Has No Regrets, Despite Losing Record
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A Hero Goes On Trial For Attempted Murder
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Fired bar leader’s suit is baseless and his whistleblower claims are ‘bewildering,’ Calif. bar says
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Woman Suing Owner Of Dog Killed By Her Dogs For $1 Million
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Lawyer sues Eric Holder and ATF over his own homemade machine gun, says feds banned it unlawfully
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College student, stressed over midterms, arrested for shagging campus sheep
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ADHD Mitigates Bar Sanction
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Say What?!
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Judges:
GM's bankruptcy judge to retire, remain on recall status
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Help Wanted: A New California Supreme Court Justice
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Justice Taking Up Disputes Over Underwater Mortgages
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Wall Street:
US Stock Futures Mostly Flat Ahead Of Housing Data
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JPMorgan Downgrades The US Stock Market
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Here's What Credit Suisse Is Saying About Stocks To Its Private Banking Clients
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Stocks little moved; S&P 500 at record-high close
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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:
Madoff Trustee Strikes $497 Million Settlement with Investors --- Madoff trustee recoups nearly $500 million more for customers
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Madoff Fraud Recovery for Bilked Investors Tops $10 Billion
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U.S. Supreme Court won't hear Lyndhurst exec's Musicland appeal
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An Ex-Financial Adviser Allegedly Used A Ponzi Scheme To Swindle Money From His Mother
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Telecoms:
LightSquared posts $67.5 million loss in October
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Unitek Global Services Files a Prepack Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in Delaware
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Pensions:
US pension agency deficit doubles, to $62b --- Federal insurance fund for millions of pensions is deteriorating, report says
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Alternative Energy:
How Washington Bungled the Solyndra Story
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Banking:
More Guilty Pleas in Taupa Lithuanian CU Case
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Museums:
Defunct Civil War museum selling treasures
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Golf:
Lenexa golf course sold out of bankruptcy for $2.5M
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Tech:
Apple's Response to GT Advanced
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Food/Beverage:
Boomers Now Restaurant's Biggest Crisis
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Oil/Gas:
Shale Boom On Despite Falling Oil Prices
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Economy:
Fed: Industrial Production decreased 0.1% in October
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US manufacturing expands, but may be losing speed
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Fed Faces an Inflation Conundrum --- The Risks to the Inflation Outlook
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NY Fed: Empire State Manufacturing Survey indicates "pace of growth somewhat faster than last month’s" in November
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Fed researcher sees low inflation persisting through end of 2016
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Maps: Which parts of the country have the most married, single and divorced people
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Survey: Consumers Remain Focused on Financial Security
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Why $3 a gallon gas is a bad sign for the global economy
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If other industries acted like Wall Street...
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The Economist Went Full Occupy Wall Street On Bankers
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Can the GOP Balance the Budget?
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Krugman: Dumb Rich Kids Get All The Breaks
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7 Big US Companies Paid CEOs More Than Uncle Sam In 2013
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Plunging Oil Prices Puts Money In The Pockets Of Those Who Need It Most
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
SCOTUS to consider when second mortgage can be void in bankruptcy
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Audit shows FHA Back in Black
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CoStar: Commercial Real Estate prices increased in September
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Freddie Mac: 5 game-changing predictions for 2015
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Old Foreclosure Debt Haunts Ex-Homeowners
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Maryland Foreclosure Rate is Highest in U.S. in October
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Cancellation of Wells Fargo deal spells more trouble for Ocwen
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NYC’s Ebola cleanup czar is a con artist and convicted mortgage scammer
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Municipalities:
A Tale of Two Cities, Post-Bankruptcy
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Two Detroits, Separate and Unequal
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Detroit police board vies for role after bankruptcy
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Detroit City Hall needs business discipline
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Puerto Rico's PREPA urged to get tough on $1.8 bln owed --- Puerto Rico Electric Utility’s Late Accounts Surge 219% From ’12
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Scranton city taxes have doubled in past five years
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Moody's reacts to overhaul of Pennsylvania program for distressed municipalities
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Cash-Strapped San Bernardino Eyes Plan To Disband Police Department --- San Bernardino pulls move toward outsourcing police
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Stockton Highlights Nationwide Risk of Conflict between Muni Investors and Public Sector Unions
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Religion:
Ex-Billionaire Wyly Bankruptcy Pits Church Against State
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Mass Torts:
Garlock says asbestos firm is forum-shopping racketeering lawsuit
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Health Care:
Rural hospitals in critical condition
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Thanks to Jonathan Gruber for revealing Obamacare deception
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Most Disapprove of Obamacare --- Poll: A New Low For Obamacare
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Through hallucinations and bankruptcy: A mother's care for a son with mental illness
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Gambling:
Trump Taj Mahal Sees Dec. 12 Closing; Creditor Panel Pushes Own Plan
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RVs:
Lawyer Seeks Norcold's Financials As Company Disputes Forbes Article
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Aviation:
CDA giving Freedom Air time to seek buyers
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Toll Roads:
Fitch Weighs in on Toll Road Bankruptcy
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Awards:
Kristina M. Johnson to be Inducted as a Fellow of The American College of Bankruptcy
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Autos:
Deadline extended for victims of crashes traced to faulty GM ignition
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US Automakers Cutting Production
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Chassix Said to Tell Lenders of Looming Restructuring
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Why Younger Americans are Ditching Cars
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Celebs:
How faith and family helped one celebrity couple through bankruptcy
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Brady Williams of 'My Five Wives' filed for bankruptcy
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Shipping:
Second OW Bunker Unit in Singapore Files for Liquidation
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OW Bunker Far East to meet liquidator on Dec. 4; six more vessels arrested
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Concerns Raised Over Further Singapore Bunker Tanker Arrests
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Creditors seek to wind up Singapore-based OW Bunker Far East
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Slow Start in Search for OW Bunker Assets
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HIT settles debt
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Mail:
US Postal Service to shut down 82 plants in January 2015
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Batteries:
Exide Technologies Files Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement
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Personal Finance:
6 Money Problems That Can Be Solved With An App
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(4 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 (12 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (7 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:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Reform:
A Dozen Reforms the ABI’s Bankruptcy Reform Commission Report Should Endorse
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Jurisdiction:
The Supreme Court Keeps Its "Stern" Promise Not To Change Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction
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Secured Debt:
'Stripping Off' Second Mortgages Cases Heading To High Court
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4th Circuit Rules Executed but Unrecorded Security Interest Has Priority Over IRS Tax Lien
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Franchises:
Franchisor Strikes Out in Bankruptcy Court
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Bankruptcy Fees:
New fee for redaction requests
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Finance:
Prepayment Premium Claims Disallowed by Bankruptcy Courts
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IP:
New Jersey Bankruptcy Court Decision Protects Rights of Trademark Licensees
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Crumbs Bake Shop Finds Layers of Rights Under a Rejected Trademark License
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New Considerations for Trademark Licenses in a 363 Sale
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Class Claims:
Class Cannot Object to Dynegy Reorganization Plan
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TBTF:
Hank Greenberg unlikely to testify in AIG trial
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The Orderly Liquidation Authority: Fanatical or Familiar? Idealistic or Unrealistic?
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Litigation:
South Carolina agency rules lawsuit loans are traditional loans subject to state law
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Weather:
The huge, hidden cost of protecting homeowners from the rising sea
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Environmental:
Chemical Spill Litigation Staying in Bankruptcy Court
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Politics:
The Keystone XL Pipeline Bill Is Headed For Obama's Desk --- Will Obama Kill The Keystone Pipeline?
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Reagan And Bush Made The Same Immigration Move That Has The GOP Enraged At Obama
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Sovereigns:
Capitanich praises G20 debt restructurings clause
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G20 includes anti- 'vulture' clause
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CFK praises 'anti-vulture' message in G20 summit
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Argentina Bondholders Come Out of Woodwork
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UK:
UK debt problem remains despite fall in bankruptcies
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How bankers are paid is now everyone's business
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UK inflation rate rises to 1.3% in October
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Developer Ray Grehan agrees to UK bankruptcy restriction order until 2021
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Liquidators for Rangers bank £24m payout
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Britain's Low Wage Economy Is Killing The Government's Austerity Plan
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EU:
Troika team remains in Cyprus
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European car sales rise for 14th straight month --- European car sales recovery vulnerable to slowing economy
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Why Banks Are Betting On A European Stock Boom In 2015
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PIIGS:
Portugal investigates 'massive' BES debt issues to cover family dues
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Germany:
German Investor Confidence Rebounds as Recession Averted
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MENA:
Bahrain’s Arcapita Raises $100 Million After Exiting Chapter 11
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US hostage beheaded by Islamic State jihadists remembered for fearless dedication to refugees --- Iraqis Show No Sign Of Uniting Despite ISIS Tribal Massacre
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4 Israelis Killed in Deadliest Jerusalem Attack In Years
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Hadassah hospital’s board chair quits
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Israel plans new rules for insolvency to help bondholders
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China:
China's Bad Debt Jumps Most in Five Years in Third Quarter
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China house prices fall for second month
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Haixin Enters Bankruptcy Proceedings Amid Steel Industry Woes
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Japan:
Japan PM calls snap election for next month, puts off sales tax increase
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Brazil:
Batista Faces Trial as Brazilian Middle Class Watches
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Russia:
A Russian Oil Giant's Dispossessed Are Hunting For $50 Billion
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Russia Will Lose $130 Billion As Capital Flees The Country
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Putin: There's A Plus Side To The Economic Sanctions Making Russians Miserable
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