Law:
Bank VP Details Crumbling Relationship With Dewey
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Being A Law School Dean Right Now Is Really, Really, Really Hard
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Who Is To Blame For The Dumbing Of The Legal Profession? • Are Lawyers Getting Dumber? Empty Theory or Troubling Trend •US questions the smartness of new entrants to the law
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LSAT Takers Fall 34% Since 2010 • The Continuing Decline In LSAT Takers
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Reinventing The Law Business: Where Is The Legal Profession Heading? (Part 5)
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Reed Smith Associates Say What's Very Wrong (at least in their perception) At Firm
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Associates At This Biglaw Firm Are Under Direct Orders From Managing Partner Not To Say ‘Thank You’
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Biggest challenge for law firms is finding new customers
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BigLaw names appear on Ashley Madison dating lists • How to Search Ashley Madison Data • Ashley Madison Lawyers Up After Breach • Divorce lawyer says of Ashley Madison hack: 'It's going to be Christmas in September' • Josh Duggar admits to p--- addiction and being ‘unfaithful’ to wife: ‘I have been the biggest hypocrite ever’ • If the hack doesn’t kill Ashley Madison, these lawsuits could • The Ashley Madison hackers have released a second load of data — it's twice as big as the first • AshleyMadison.com Hack = Good News For Divorce Lawyers, Bad News For Other Sectors • Ashley Madison using copyright law to try to limit attack leak • Ashley Madison founder emails leaked in new data dump
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Is She Dallas' Most Beautiful Lawyer?
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Lawyer jobs in decline because of AI, says Stanford Uni lecturer
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Can Litigation Funding Thrive on Bankruptcy ?
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Why not eliminate quarterly earnings reports, Wachtell co-founder suggests
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Akin Gump Defends Fees for Representing Cal Dive Committee
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Legal departments show vulnerability to phishing attacks
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A Deflategate Email Exchange Part II
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5 Best Practices to Improve SEO for Your Firm’s Website
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Common workplace anxiety dreams and their meaning
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6 simple tricks to improve the way you react to stress
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3 habits that make great employees burn out
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Banker shirts don't look like this anymore
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When working too much isn't a badge of honor: the difficult reality of workaholism
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Judge says lawyer defending himself in trial for shooting man who refused to leave outside his law office 'lost the jury'; mistrial is declared
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Chinese lawyer numbers grow by 20,000 a year
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Anonymous 'cyberbullying' by prosecutors deprived cops of fair trial, 5th Circuit says
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2 Suspects Arrested In Lawyer’s Brutal Murder
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Dad who let 15-year-old drive gets prison time after fatal accident
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Paraplegic convict to be hung 'from his wheelchair'
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In Praise Of Jack Soloff, Suits’s Smarmy Savior
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Judges:
Judge apologizes for taking ‘judicial note’ that ‘Greeks never pay taxes’
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Dissenter blasts Posner’s Internet research • Benchslaps Fly Over Judges Doing Factual Research On The Internet • Dr. Posner Will See You Now: 7th Circuit Judges Reignite a Spirited Debate over Judicial Internet Research
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Interning for Sotomayor: 'Opportunity of a Lifetime'
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor Attends Unveiling of Her Mural
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Wall Street:
U.S. stocks eye a reprieve despite ‘mortal blow’ from Chinese data
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Wall Street poised for another torrid day of trading
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Dow, S&P and Nasdaq all shed 2% as Street frets • Just how bad was Thursday's market carnage? • US stocks suffer worst loss of 2015 as markets end in a rout • Markets dragged down by global meltdown fears
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Get ready: A correction is coming
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S&P 500 slump could be biggest bull signal of all
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Why it’s great news that investors are dumping U.S. stocks
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A quarter of S&P, a third of Dow in bear territory
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Layoffs:
HP's layoffs will exceed 55,000 people, CFO says
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Colorado-based Curian Capital to lay off its 224 employees ahead of closure
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Retailing:
Stage Stores to close 90 locations
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Sears sales soften in 2nd quarter
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Cost-Cutting Is the Key to J.C. Penney's Turnaround
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Healthcare:
Brunswick hospitals await bankruptcy judge's merger decision • Judge OKs merger of Brunswick hospitals • Judge OKs $7.9 million sale agreement for Brunswick hospital
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Hutcheson, Erlanger Stop Warring For 60 Days While Focus Is On Rescuing Troubled Fort Oglethorpe Hospital
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Hospitals remain stressed, but don't blame the ACA
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Americans Want Medicare to Negotiate Better Deals on Drugs
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Manufacturing:
Monitor Financial Distress in Your Supply Chain
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Tech:
Lavaboom Encrypted Email Startup Declares Bankruptcy
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Corporate Reform:
Banks face another $65 billion in litigation and fines
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Panicking banks ban mobile phones, swearing and even emojis in bid to avoid repeat of Libor humiliation – but new rules could drive traders away because they ‘stop the job being fun’
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Coal:
Arch, Peabody Soar for Second Day Amid Optimism Over Debt Swap
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What Cheap Gas Did to Tens of Thousands of Coal Jobs
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Economy:
Jobless claims rise for 4th straight week • Still-low 277,000
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Leading economic index drops 0.2%
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How the Financial Meltdown Changed Our Spending Habits
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Disappointing business surveys intensify growth fears
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Yellen's Learned These Five Things About the Economy Since July
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Citi: The Markets Read the Minutes Wrong, and the Fed Will Hike in September • Economists predict September hike: CNBC Survey
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Why the Fed would be nuts to raise interest rates now
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Strong Philly Fed survey counters N.Y. gloom
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More Americans See Themselves as "Haves" Than "Have-Nots"
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Europe has a lesson for the US on jobs
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Telecommuting for Work Climbs to 37%
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Millennials are trying to avoid debt at all costs
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Existing Home Sales Hit 8-Year High In US Market; First-Time Buyers Squeezed Out
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Fed's Williams: Rate hikes impact home prices
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Mortgage rates barely nudge, stay below 4%
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Bidding wars hold back first-time home buyers
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Bank of NY Mellon sued for over $2B in soured mortgages
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Once-secret brief filed by federal prosecutors details scheme to defraud Vegas HOAs
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US Home Sales Soar in July to Fastest Pace Since Early 2007
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Is Detroit really the hottest housing market right now?
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California cool: Home sales drop 4% despite price plateau
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Ocwen partners with housing advocates to help troubled owners
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Second Circuit Holds Servicing Transfer Notice Not Exempt from FDCPA
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Fannie Mae finds familiar buyer for second non-performing loan sale
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Municipalities:
Bankruptcy Solution May Leave Puerto Rico Marooned
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Kentucky Town Becomes First to File for Bankruptcy Since Detroit
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Municipal Debt Crisis Returns to Haunt US
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Television:
The American television business is now 'structurally impaired'
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Celebs:
No one wants "Real Housewives" stars’ $100 home at auction
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Politics:
Trump: Low US Wages Not a Bad Thing • Trump Says Clinton E-Mail Issue ‘Incompetence or Criminal’ • Trump Says U.S. Tax Code ‘Too Complicated’ • Trump to Pope Francis: 'ISIS wants to get you' • Donald Trump Bests Jeb Bush in New Hampshire Town Hall Duel • Trump Vows to See If ‘Anchor Babies’ Constitutionally Protected • Trump as Commander in Chief? Tune in for a Foreign Policy Reality Show • Flamboyant Trump evolved into cautious businessman • Trump Bashes $4 Billion In IRS Refunds To Illegals • Trump Slams H-1B Visas, but...... • Two men who attacked a homeless Latino man said they were inspired by Donald Trump • Mark Zuckerberg just called out Donald Trump • Meet The Trumps: A guide to the GOP front-runner's powerful, far-reaching family
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Here's who has the best chance at being our next president
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Time magazine has a reality check for America
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U.S. Said to Probe How Classified Data Got on Hillary Clinton’s Server
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Rubio: overhaul of US tax code would benefit cities like Detroit
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H-P's only true growth is a Carly Fiorina legacy
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Poll: Post-Debate, Images of Fiorina, Carson and Kasich Improve
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GOP Official: I Joined Ashley Madison for Opposition Research
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Student Debt:
Loan relief eyed for students hurt by Corinthian Colleges bankruptcy
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Oil/Gas:
U.S. Oil Could Return to 2008 Low of $32 in Citigroup View • Likelihood of Oil in the $30s Increases • Fresh Sell Off For Oil. Bear Market Here To Stay? • Supply, Demand Equilibrium Further Away Than Ever Before • 5 reasons oil is sliding toward $40 a barrel • Feels like 1986: Oil on track for longest weekly losing streak in 29
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Oil falls after weak Chinese factory data
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Why Oil Still Has a Long Way to Fall
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5 Things to Know About Cheap Oil
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Refinery Outages Add Pressure on Oil as Worsening Glut Looms
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US crude's break-even cost: How low can it go?
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The Oil Patch Mess: How Did We Get Here?
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Miller Energy reaches tentative deal on SEC charges
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Oil and gas listings on job websites fell by half after industry cutbacks
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Saudi stocks bear market as oil slides on supply glut
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Ethanol:
Repeal the Ethanol Mandate
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Movies:
Relativity Hits the Auction Block: Who'll Bid on the Wreckage?
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Food/Beverage:
Starbucks is transforming coffee shops into bars
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Gambling:
Caesars examiner probe expanded to include 2008 LBO
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Caesars Junior Creditors Seek Stake in Parent Company
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Paper:
Verso expected to lay off 300 employees at Jay mill
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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 (11 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (42 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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Exit Strategy:
Structured dismissals are a new bankruptcy exit trend
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Avoidance Actions:
Tenth Circuit Insulates First-Time Transaction from Preference Attack
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Discharge:
Eleventh Circuit Holds Filing Proof of Claim on Previously Discharged Debt Violates Discharge Injunction
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Bankruptcy Prediction:
Bankruptcy in Groups
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Sales:
Confidentiality Issues Arising Under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code
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Make-Whole:
Chesapeake Remand Decision Sets Damages at Make-Whole Price and Offers Food for Thought on Bankruptcy Litigation Strategy
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Exemptions:
Texas family personal property exemption to increase to $100,000
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Resorts:
Rosewood Files Motion To Terminate Baha Mar License • Rosewood Hotels wants out of Baha Mar
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Fraud:
MF Global creditors will get almost all their money back
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Cal Poly to pay $480,000 to rid Moriarty’s name from scoreboard
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Judge orders billionaire Rennert, holding company to pay back $213 mln
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Personal Finance:
Signs you're financially unstable
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EU:
European stocks plunge on China, Greece worries
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The eurozone PMI just beat analyst expectations for August
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PIIGS:
Greek bank bonds: brace yourself for bail-in • Greek PM to resign, seek snap election in September • Factbox: Greek constitution on snap elections • Merkel Dubbed Cowardly on Greece by Biggest German Daily • Greek Bonds Fall With Italy’s as Tsipras Said to Plan Elections • Syriza rebels form new anti-austerity party in Greece • Poll: Greeks See Germany as Country’s Biggest Threat • Germans begin the looting of Greece
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Canada:
Post-secondary students seek bankruptcy advice
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First Nickel goes into receivership
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McCaffrey Haute Couture bankruptcy sale attracts hundreds to find discount dresses
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Germany:
German consumer sentiment set to fall in September
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China:
China's manufacturing data is utterly terrifying
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Xi's big plan may be backfiring
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Barclays: China's currency will plunge another 10%
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Finland:
Santa Claus files for bankruptcy in Finland • Finland's Economic Plight Worsens, Santa Office Faces Bankruptcy
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Russia:
Banning Brie and bulldozing geese
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Russia Hones Rescues for Cash-Strapped Firms Too Big to Fail
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South Africa:
Administrators for Glencore South African coal unit suspend supply deal with Eskom • Glencore’s Legal Dispute in S. Africa Over 8-Cent Coal Deepens
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Latin America:
China and oil are hurting Latin America
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MENA:
ISIS Beheads Leading Archaeologist Who Reportedly Helped Hide Artifacts And Refused To Reveal Their Location
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Brazil:
Brazil Has Yet Another Big Mess on Its Hands After State Default
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