Law:
In Lean Times, Law Firms Reconsider Two-Tier Partnership
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Dewey Defense Says COO, not Defendants, Responsible for Unpaid Loans
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In potential job threat to associates, robot-like 'Ross' gets BigLaw bankruptcy gig
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Business of Law
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A Chat with Ex-Big Law Partner Frederic Rich
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GC On Diversity, the “Usual Suspects” and Getting a Life Outside of Law
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Lawyer friendships suffer as men see each other as rivals
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GC’s fix for ‘broken’ law firm profit structure: Cut associate billing rates
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LexisNexis Survey - So, What The Hell Were Law Schools Teaching Those 3 Years?
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Structured Dialogue re Delivery of Legal Services
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How to Make a Law Firm Merger Work: The Business Case
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S.C. Says Insurer May Sue Squire Patton for Overbilling
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King & Spalding to open in Sacramento with 8-lawyer team from DLA Piper
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Michael Jordan is in the Courthouse
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Complaining is like having wine and Cheetos for breakfast
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From Harvard Law Prof To White House?
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Amidst Turmoil, LSU Law School Appoints Interim Co-Deans
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The 69 Most-Cited Law Faculties
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12 ways strategic silence can make you more powerful
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Should You Marry A Lawyer?
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Fired coach sues Paul Weiss for alleged defamation
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10 steps to beat your fear of public speaking
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How to avoid burning out at work
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From Windows 7 To 10 And Back
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12 of the best-looking phone cases you can buy
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5 mistakes that make recruiters click away from your LinkedIn page
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Judge nixes request for makeup artist to cover defendant’s facial tattoos at trial
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Prominent American Lawyer Murdered Abroad In Kidnapping Attempt Gone Bad
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Lawyer says concern for safety of his clients motivated his leak of confidential documents
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The FBI just got some new clues on a $500 million art heist that happened 25 years ago
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How To Cover Up An Affair The Cooley Law Way
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The Warrior Lawyer
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Judges:
Federal Law Clerk Competes On American Ninja Warrior
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Chastened Ex-Blogging Judge Urges Other Judges to Use Social Media • Judge Richard Kopf, Former Blogger, Urges Other Judges To Blog
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Wall Street:
U.S. stock futures slump as China devalues yuan again
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US stocks set for another triple-digit tumble
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Global shares fall as China devalues yuan • Asia stocks slump, currency rout deepens
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Layoffs:
A startup dissolved overnight and laid off its 400 employees via email with no warning • The CEO of the startup that dissolved overnight explains what happened: Burn • Startup that laid off 400 employees gets second chance
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A&P to issue layoff notices at all stores
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StumbleUpon lays off dozens after failing to raise new round, source says
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Urban Fulfillment Services to eliminate 265 Colorado jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Student Debt:
There's a big problem with the government's offer to 'forgive' your mountain of student-loan debt
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How I'm paying off $60,000 of student loans with a $50,000 income
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Personal Finance:
Things that are never worth the money
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Fraud:
Alleged $100 million insider trading ring involved 'shopping lists' of hacked press releases
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Market Cheating Moves From Trading Sex to Hacking to Gain Edge
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Key Insider Trading Ring Suspect Freed on Bond as U.S. Appeals
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A trader in Pennsylvania allegedly made millions in a huge insider trading scandal
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Five arrested in insider trading hacking scheme: FBI
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Owner of Orange County Real Estate Investment Firm Found Guilty in Fraud Scheme That Ended in $169 Million Bankruptcy
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Schemer's Unauthorized Real Estate Investment May Pay Off For Victims
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Retailing:
Family Christian Stores given new life after bankruptcy judge approves sale • God 'Has a Plan' for Business Says CEO Chuck Bengochea
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American Apparel Warns It Needs to Raise Money • American Apparel mulls bankruptcy filing amid unrest
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RadioShack earnings breached by Ukrainian, Russian hackers, leading to $1 million in stock sales
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Gambling:
Caesars Accused in Suit of Paying Creditors for Plan Support
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Environmental:
Judge rules for cleanup firm in Freedom bankruptcy dispute
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Consumer Finance:
Prime, Subprime, Deep Subprime, Suprime-Like . . . and hold it, my fav "Aspriring Prime"
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Meet the New King of Subprime Lending
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Economy:
Small firms seeing some signs of hope
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US wholesale inventories up solidly, signal upward GDP revision
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June Consumer Borrowing Surpasses Economists’ Predictions
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Economic Confidence Index in the U.S. Remains Lower at -12
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Productivity is worse than previously thought • This is 'more damaging...than the Great Recession'
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U.S. Population Distribution by Age, 1900 through 2060
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U.S. Births increased in 2014
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Cities Where Wages Have Jumped the Most
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Home prices rise in 93% of metro areas
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The median home price here is $980,000
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MBA: Mortgage Applications "Flat" in Latest Weekly Survey, Purchase Index up 20% YoY
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Gap between appraiser, homeowner perceptions doubles in July
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43,000 foreclosures complete in June 2015
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Mortgage Lender Receives Stay of $109.2M CFPB Fine
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Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association files emergency motion
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John Paulson Starts Selling Land to Reap Gains in U.S. Housing
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Municipalities:
Puerto Rico water authority files to sell $750 mln in bonds • Puerto Rico Agency Sets $750 Million Bond Sale After Default
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Puerto Rico Needs a Haircut
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Gutting schools won't solve Puerto Rico's debt crisis
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Puerto Rico Investors Win Relief From UBS
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Wayne County Seeks to Avoid Bankruptcy Through Consent Pact
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Kansas' $1 bln bond sale won't solve pension problems -Moody's
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Consultants:
Houlihan Rides Merger Wave to IPO After 40 Years of Bankruptcies
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Oil/Gas:
Crude oil crashes to a 6-year low • EIA lowers US crude production outlook • OPEC just kicked oil into the $30s
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If oil goes to $40 a barrel something is 'very, very wrong with the world'
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Oil demand growing at fastest pace in 5 years • IEA sees oil glut persisting in 2016 despite soaring demand
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Discarded Primera Energy documents expected back in the spotlight during hearing • Investors in bankrupt San Antonio oil company subpoena reporter who allegedly found documents in dumpster
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Is OPEC winning? IEA says non-members 'stalling' • Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?
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OPEC pumps at 3-year high despite oversupply
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Will A Possible Interest Rate Increase Hit Energy Markets?
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Shale Oil Output Wanes as U.S. Producers Retreat in Bear Market
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Coal:
W.Va. officials object to Patriot Coal bankruptcy plan
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Peabody Energy Tries To Strike Song Lyrics From Complaint: Welcome To The Streisand Effect
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Bankruptcy 101: a primer for U.S. coal markets
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How far coal stocks have fallen in 2015
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Media:
Christian Media Company Gospel Light Files for Bankruptcy
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Politics:
Trump Teaches Americans a Bankruptcy Lesson • The man who just resigned from Donald Trump's campaign explains how Trump can still win • Donald Trump, Pivoting Toward Policy, Urges Simpler Tax Code • Trump's female fans shrug off comment about TV host • Fact Check: Donald Trump has "changed his mind" on abortion •Donald Trump Just Isn't His Father • Could Trump Actually Win? • The Trump Problem: A Tale Courtesy of Texas
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GOP thinks skimpy Social Security is still too much
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How Perry Ended Up in a Financial Hole
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Rapper Drops Clinton For Sanders
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Hillary Clinton Responds to Student Debt Voters • Enrollment surge likely under Clinton debt-free tuition plan, potentially boosting its cost • Hillary Clinton’s student debt video misses the biggest problem with paying for college
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Walker to Fire Professors He Disagrees With
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Harvard law prof explores Democratic presidential bid financed through crowdsourced funding
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Sanders: Make Election Day a holiday • Dissent Forming in Bernie Sanders' Camp
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Hillary Clinton to turn over personal computer server
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U.S. Congress and Its Leaders Suffer Public Discontent
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Music:
Who killed the music industry?
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Columbia House owner wants to drop its mail-order business • Music Fans Mourn (And Mock) Columbia House Bankruptcy
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Compensation:
Pay ratios: Who's getting named and shamed?
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Waste:
FBI investigating Creative Recycling Systems
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Healthcare:
UMC-Children's Hospital exchange charges in court
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After six hours of litigation, Exclusivity Hearing ruling to come Thursday
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Children's Hospital argues for hiring investment banker
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Nearly 90% of All Americans Now Insured
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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 (15 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (10 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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Bonds:
TIA Provision Read Broadly to Protect Bondholder in Restructuring
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Channeling Injunctions:
SDNY Bankruptcy Court Says Claims Against Insurer Need Not Be “Inextricably Intertwined” with Insurer’s Relationship with Debtor to Fall Within Scope of Channeling Injunction
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Trustees:
Chapter 7 Trustee Fee Application Denied Because No Disbursements
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Recent Pleadings:
Dechert Slams "far-fetched" "grand conspiracy" litigation seeking $80M In Sanctions
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Insurance:
The Problem with a Broadly Worded Professional Service Exclusion in a Service Firm’s D&O Insurance Policy
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Litigation:
A Litigator's Lessons on Winning Cases and Clients
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Buses:
Bankruptcy lawsuit filed against former Charlotte mayor over work at debtor bus company • Trustee in DesignLine bankruptcy seeks to recover $421,000 in pay from former Mayor Anthony Foxx
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DesignLine trustee seeks $300,000 from NASCAR team owner
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Electricity:
SME bankruptcy trust to dismantle $85M natural-gas plant
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Religion:
Creditors: Archdiocese excluded 73 victims from settlement
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Weather:
Looking for a silver lining in a drought
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Auto Racing:
Michael Andretti slams lawsuit claiming IndyCar team is insolvent
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Banking:
FDIC Claims Over Failed Bank Revived by 5th Cir.
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Movies:
Relativity blames bank for bankruptcy woes
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Relativity Media outlines sale process
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Who are Relativity’s creditors?
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Relativity Media Chapter 11 Proposed Schedule Revealed
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Relativity's Latest Ticking Clock: Deadline Set to Challenge Low-Ball Bid for Bankrupt Studio
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Relativity Bankruptcy: 'Act of Valor' Owner Wishes to Protect License Fees, Sequel Rights
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Accounting:
Accounting Hiring, Enrollments Are At Record Levels
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Hockey:
Erie Otters' ex-owner to get nearly $1.5 million from sale
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Resorts:
Baha Mar pleads to strike out ‘baffling’ to bankruptcy
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UK:
Water into WIFI – A Modern Definition of “Essential”
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Insolvency figures fall as wages outstrip inflation again
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PIIGS:
Greece's Preliminary Bailout Deal Faces German Turbulence •• A deal that addresses nothing • Alexis Tsipras calls emergency parliament session to vote on new bailout deal • Thorns in the side of the Greek bailout deal • Greek Main Opposition Leader: Agreement Between Greece and Creditors is ‘Very Bad’ • Greece’s Third Bailout at a Glance: Five Things You Need to Know • Greece Ends One Crisis and Braces for the Next
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China:
China just slashed its currency for the second-day running • China's sudden currency devaluation is a sign of the country's weakness • China devalues the yuan: What you need to know • What China’s surprise currency devaluation means for its economy and the world • Here’s why China really devalued the yuan
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China is about to absolutely hammer some of the weakest economies in the world
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Don't be distracted by China: Goldman's Kostin
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Donald Trump: China devaluation will devastate US
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Stop freaking out — China's currency devaluation is 'trivial'
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China July data: A new slew of misses
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Brazil:
Moody's cuts Brazil rating to near-junk status
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Russia:
Russia Pushes Crackdown on Banks as Top-100 Lender Loses License
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