Law:
Associate Bonus Watch: Akin Gump
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Sheppard Mullin Names New Bankruptcy Partner
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Fox Adds Bankruptcy Partner in New York
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What Losing at Bankruptcy Law Taught Me About the Benefits of Strategic Partnerships
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Some associates will earn less as gap widens between rich and super-rich law firms, columnist says
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St. Louis: Bankruptcy Lawyer Willard leaves Carmody law firm, deciding what’s next
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Beyond Biglaw: 3 Essential Junior Associate Qualities
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Lawyerly Lairs: A Disgraced Dean’s Abandoned Abode
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Law School Is Just Like High School — But Worse
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Inside Out – From Firm To In-House
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Apple CEO Cook: ‘Sitting is the new cancer’
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Legal Aid Strike Offers Window Into NY Public Interest Compensation
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Apple’s iPad Brainwashing Spell Seems To Be Wearing Off
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Lost case was alleged motive for ex-prosecutor who pleaded guilty to soliciting murder of lawyer
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Federal prosecutor’s ex-wife charged with attempted murder
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He’s a lawyer, he’s a financial analyst. No, he’s stock photo man!
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Lawyer suspended for hiring disbarred lawyer who used assumed name in client meetings
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Former attorney and radio host gets nearly 6 years in $2.3M client-theft case
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Lawyer pleads guilty in law firm embezzlement
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Eric Holder comments on his avian nickname
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Lawyer Botches $2 Fee, Loses $2.5 Million Lawsuit --- Top state court nixes $2.5M personal injury suit because filing fee was $2 short
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Police: Self Defense? Shot Kid 16 Times
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Alabama's constitutional crisis over same-sex marriage, explained --- Is There a Message Behind Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Move in Alabama?
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12 Things Every Lawyer Should Learn From Saul Goodman
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Judges:
This video of Ruth Bader Ginsburg talking about feminism is even better than you hoped
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How To Get a Mediator Appointed in a Bankruptcy Case (Hint: In Some Courts, It’s Easier If She Wasn’t a Bankruptcy Judge)
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SCOTUSblog can’t get Supreme Court press credentials under new policy; what about Denniston?
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Judicial Council of the Second Circuit Announcement for Bankruptcy Judgeship
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Wall Street:
U.S. Index Futures Little Changed Before Greece Creditor Meeting
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Stocks close higher despite Greece; Dow up triple digits
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Another murder-suicide hits JPMorgan
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Layoffs:
Halliburton to Fire Up to 6,400 Workers
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Disruption:
We're setting the job market back 200 years
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Retailing:
RadioShack gets $10 million interim bankruptcy loan
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Why Sprint and Radio Shack Are Shacking Up
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Radio Shack Demise Sends Beacon For Beacon Brands
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RadioShack Creditors Said to Include Harbinger’s Insurer F&G
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Will RadioShack Corporation Store Deal Be A Game Changer
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RadioShack to Accept Gift Cards Until Early March
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Lessons from RadioShack: To Stay on Top, Figure Out What Got You There
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What Does RadioShack's Bankruptcy Mean for Creditors & Shareholders?
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Next RadioShack? Here Are The Most Troubled Retail Stores
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Can J.C. Penney and Sears avoid RadioShack's fate?
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Best Buy's secret advantage: Competitors like RadioShack keep dying
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Haunting photos of a deserted mall
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Autos:
Bailout Architect Presses GM --- GM Bailout Veteran Seeks Spot on Board --- Harry Wilson Would Be ‘Very Very Valuable,’ Former GM Product Chief Says --- Investor hired last year by RadioShack to seek GM board seat
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Turnarounds:
Anatomy of a Turnaround: YRC Worldwide
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Gambling:
Revel Moves to Scrap Second Casino Sale as Deadline Passes --- Revel officially asks to cancel proposed sale
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This casino just can't be bought --- Atlantic City's Revel Hotel & Casino Sale Falls Apart for the Second Time --- Will anyone buy Atlantic City's former Revel casino?
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Environmental:
Water company wants in on Freedom class action
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Celebs:
Strauss Kahn Trial: They Were H-----s?
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80% of NFL Players Broke 3 Years After Leaving
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Agriculture:
Farmers' Profit Is Expected to Decline 32% in 2015
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Healthcare:
Blowing the Whistle on Bankrupt Relators
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Pharma:
Valeant $400M offer only qualified bid for insolvent U.S. cancer vaccine maker
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Economy:
Job Openings in U.S. Rose in December to Highest Since 2001
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The Missing Wage Jolt --- Millennial wage gains: Too little, too late?
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How growing income inequality is hurting Social Security
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Food Stamp Use Finally Falling in America
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2 voting Fed members see rate hikes looming --- Fed’s Lacker Says June ‘Attractive Option’ for Raising Rates
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Richmond Fed’s Lacker: Skills Gap Contributes to Widening U.S. Inequality
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Sen. Warren Opposes “Audit the Fed” Bill
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Clueless in Kentucky: Rand Paul’s ideas about the Fed make absolutely no sense --- ‘Audit the Fed’ likely not what you’d imagine
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News Coverage of Global Economy Turns Negative
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Finance chiefs vow action to bolster growth at G20 meet --- G-20 pledges monetary, fiscal action if needed
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US wholesale stockpiles record smallest gain in 17 months --- Weak US wholesale stocks point to cut in Q4 growth estimate --- U.S. Economic Growth Estimates for the Fourth Quarter Are Dropping After A Strong Six-Month Stretch
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Home Depot Goes on Hiring Binge Looking for 80k Workers
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Giving housing to the homeless is three times cheaper than leaving them on the streets
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US Corporations Aren't Fleeing High Taxes
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Map: When morning rush hour hits America
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
CFPB takes action against NewDay Financial
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
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FNC: Residential Property Values increased 5.0% year-over-year in December
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Las Vegas Real Estate in January: Sales Decline, Non-contingent Inventory up 13% YoY
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Trulia: Asking House Prices up 7.5% year-over-year in January
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Construction Costs Are Rising as Economy Improves
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Keen-Summit Capital Partners Retained by Bankruptcy Trustee to Auction Medical Office Building Portfolio in Charlotte, NC
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Municipalities:
Another failed Revel sale typifies Atlantic City's woes
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Puerto Rico: Beware buyer
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Puerto Rico Municipal Restructurings: Back to The Negotiating Table
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Puerto Rico hurtles toward financial catastrophe
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Treasure Island: Puerto Rico Bids To Become New Age Tax Haven
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Puerto Rico yields at record high as setbacks mount
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Puerto Rico governor seeks new value-added tax
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Duggan: 'Detroit is now on the road to recovery' --- On track for first balanced budget in 13 years --- Duggan can save Detroit, but not if people leave
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Kansas Weighs Risky Bet to Cover Its Pension Needs
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More State Takeovers of Public Schools Possible
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PA: 562 municipalities administer pension plans that are ýdistressedý and underfunded by at least $7.7 billion
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Oil/Gas:
Weds. A.M.: Oil slips below $56 on expectations oversupply to linger
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Tues. P.M.: Crude falls as IEA says US shale oil output fall to be limited --- US oil output "party" to last to 2020-IEA --- Oil Prices Drop 5%, Extending Losses --- Biggest Oil Trader: Prices Could Dive Again --- Oil at $55 is Here to Stay
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Low oil price won't spur global growth: Moody's
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US Gulf Coast Oil Imports Down
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Top oil analyst: The worst is yet to come
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Falling Oil Prices Threaten Houston Building Boom
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How much oil does the US have? It depends on who's counting.
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Halliburton Cutting Jobs Due to ‘Challenging Environment’
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Endeavour seeks time to rework reorg plan in wake of oil price declines
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Tullow Oil scraps dividend after first loss in 15 years
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Drilling Slows Down --- Why rig cuts won't save oil : Goldman
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Oil market will 'never be the same': IEA chief
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Oil layoffs could come back to haunt the industry
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Top energy watchdog: Russia will be the big loser
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Don’t Look to the Market for a Consensus on Oil Prices
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Global Geophysical nets reorganization plan confirmation --- Global Geophysical Services emerges from bankruptcy
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Oil Price Decline Now Threatens US Banks
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Williston ND: Now We're Frightened
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Awards:
Young Conaway Partner to Be Inducted as ACB Fellow
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Consultants:
Ronald R. Sussman and Michael Epstein Lead Asset Recovery & Cost Saving Programs at FRS
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Personal Finance:
This policy is the key to getting dads to do their share of the housework
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Your lifetime earnings are probably determined in your 20s
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How Gas Station Attendant Built Fortune
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5 truly awful Valentine’s Day gifts
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Food/Beverage:
Operations at SoCal HPP Juice Co-Packer Said to be Unaffected by Bankruptcy | BevNET.com
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Investigations:
Altegrity Clears Initial Bankruptcy Hearing
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Coporate Reform:
Senators Warn Wall Street: No Free Ride on Small-Bank Bills
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Goldman head Blankfein to banks: Stop whining about regulations
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Thiel Never Met a Regulation He Didn't Hate
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Fraud:
Billionaire Rennert Deny MagCorp Dividends Funded Hampton’s Meg-Mansion
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Toll Roads:
2 counties continuing effort to lease Indiana Toll Road
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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 (17 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (6 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:
Bankruptcy Filings Continue Five-Year Downward Trend in January
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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UCC:
UCC Lien Termination Error May Result in Huge Loss for Lender
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Jurisdiction:
Losing at Dodge Ball: Understanding the Supreme Court’s Implied Authorization of Consent in Executive Benefits Insurance Agancy v. Arkinson and Why Revision of 28 U.S.C. § 157(b) Is Critical for Clarity
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Avoidance Actions:
Preference Actions filed in CPI, Corp.
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Professional Compensation:
Attorney Fees: Following Local Law Can Mean the Difference Between Collecting or Not
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Bankruptcy Bonuses:
RadioShack Proposes Up to $3 Million in Bankruptcy Bonuses
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TBTF:
Republicans eye bill to limit U.S. rescues of failing banks
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Shipping:
Rebound In Dry Shipping Rates Not Likely In The Near Future
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Lehman:
Bundesbank gets money back from Lehman collapse
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Receiverships:
An Analysis of Ohio's Amended Receivership Law
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Electricty:
Energy Future to Float New Chapter 11 Restructuring Proposal
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Aviation:
American or Southwest — who’s right about fuel prices?
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Golf:
Exclusive Charleston golf club bankrupt, seeks to be sold
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Politics:
Fact Check: Ted Cruz - "92 million Americans aren't working."
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Confessions of a Congressman: 9 Secrets from the Inside
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Tax:
Top 7 Nations for Dodging Taxes
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Sovereigns:
Argentina: 'Neither the President, nor the Economy Minister will pay vultures what they ask' --- Argentina Won't Meet 'Obstinate' Holdout Demands, Kicillof Says
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Holdouts say there are no negotiations with gov't
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US holders of defaulted Argentine bonds step up campaign for full repayment of loans
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Greece and Argentina , Similar But Not the Same
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UK:
Restructuring & Corporate Recovery Update - February 2015
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EU:
Robert Tchenguiz to invoke European human rights law to protect assets
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Geithner: Europe in Worse Shape than Japan
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PIIGS:
Greece is facing a day of reckoning
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EU's Juncker steps up contacts with Greece, scant progress so far --- Germany lowers hopes of reaching deal on Greek bailout soon --- No plan for Greece ready, Athens must extend bailout by Feb 16-Moscovici --- Investors Hold Fire Ahead of Greece Talks
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Greece Says "No Way Back" In Bid To Rewrite Bailout Deal
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Grexit Supported By 1 In 2 Germans
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Greece is trying to recover $2.8 billion through a ruthless crackdown on tax evasion
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What a Greek exit would mean for U.S. stocks
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Greek banks solvent at the moment, ECB's Jazbec says
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Germany kills hope of quick Greek accord
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Protect Yourself (and Make Money) From a Greek Exit
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Canada:
Waste-to-energy pioneer Plasco enters bankruptcy protection
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Australia:
Can an adjudication determination be enforced by an insolvent company?
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India:
Bankruptcy panel report seeks changes in Cos Act
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Ukraine:
Ukraine asked Russia to restructure debt
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Turkey:
Why Did Turkey Seize Bank Asya?
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MENA:
Arcapita and the Need for Mideast Restructuring Regimes
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Russia:
S&P Downgrades Russia Debt to Junk
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