Law:
After Dewey Collapse, Former Partners Still Search for Homes
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Associate Bonus Watch: Coveting Your Neighbor’s Bonus
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5 Things GCs Want From Outside Counsel
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Cox Smith Matthews to combine operations with Detroit law firm, managing director/bankruptcy head Deborah Williamson to join Dykema executive board • Texas' Cox Smith law firm merging with Dykema of Detroit • Mid-Market Mergers Abound: Dykema Ties Up With Texas Firm
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Business of Law
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Dechert CIO Shares Thoughts on Keeping the Law Firm Safe
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Law firm faces copyright claim after press obtains secret video made by a client’s co-worker
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Does your legal LinkedIn profile have off-base endorsements? Ethics opinion has a problem with that
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A Call For Measuring Quality in Legal Services
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Want To Work In-House At Apple? Go To These Law Schools
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The question Indiana's Pence won't, or can't, answer • Indiana Lawmakers Move to Clarify Religious-Objections Law • What Makes Indiana's Religious-Freedom Law Different? • How major celebrities and businesses are reacting to Indiana’s religious freedom law • Indiana’s New Law Allows Discrimination. That Was the Point. • Indiana Republicans to amend 'religious freedom' law in face of backlash • How Angie’s List got involved in the Indiana religious freedom law • The high cost of religious freedom laws • People Are Mad At Indiana For Discrimination Authorized By Hobby Lobby
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Indiana GOP leader admits ‘No Gays Allowed’ sign would be legal in most of the state
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Meet Paul Deck, the oldest practicing lawyer in Nebraska and Iowa
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Crazy Law Firm Vid Or Action Movie Trailer? You Decide.
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Amanda Knox will seek compensation for time spent in Italian prison, lawyer says
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Public defender’s text to phone in police possession leads to suspension
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Lawyer’s ‘sugar daddy’ offer to unrepresented opposing party is cited in disbarment decision
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Demanding S-- For Legal Services Frowned Upon In Indiana
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Cops: "Obsessed" Teacher Sent Thousands of Texts to 11-Year-Old Student
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SCOTUS: GPS Trackers are a Form of Search and Seizure
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Judges:
Bankruptcy judge playing retirement tune
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Wall Street:
US Stock Futures Slide Ahead Of Economic Data
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European Markets Fall Amid Greek Worries
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Company earnings warnings have been piling up of late
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Layoffs:
Losing a job is always terrible. For workers over 50, it’s worse.
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Oil/Gas:
Tues. A.M.: Crude oil is falling again
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Oil Declines as Potential Iran Nuclear Deal Seen Boosting Glut
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Report: Cheap crude prices could boost the U.S. economy for another two years
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Danger lurks for debt investors in the oil and gas fields
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With So Much Oil Flowing, U.S. May Be Reaching Storage Limits • No, the US is not running out of places to hoard its oil
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Fort Worth O&G Company Opts for Bankruptcy
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Energy Payrolls Have Only Started to Fall
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Why oil falling below $30 a barrel is a good thing
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U.S. oil production jump hit 100-year high in 2014, report says
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Will the Oil Rout Bankrupt Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp.?
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Pipe manufacturer to cut more Houston jobs
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Harvest Natural Resources weighs restructuring with "severe" money woes
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A Houston oil company’s foiled Venezuelan sale is prompting reorganization talk
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Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd debt-for-equity swap gets okay
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Energy high-yield bonds: cutting the line
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Commodity Investors Bailing at Fastest Pace on Record
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Aviation:
Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz Had Been in Treatment for Suicide Risk
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Payouts for US Germanwings victims could dwarf European claims
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Flooring:
Carl Icahn might want to get involved in the Lumber Liquidators fight but 'needs to figure out who he hates less'
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Education:
Over 100 people refusing to pay off loans for defunct Corinthian Colleges
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Gambling:
Stockton reportedly knew Showboat covenant was still an issue at purchase
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Awards:
Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Elected to the International Insolvency Institute
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Finance:
Jumping on junk: Investors crazy for high yield bonds
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Weather:
Drought puts screws on California's swimming pools
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Religion:
Difference of $600K and $5 million: Supreme Court won't hear Rev. Robert Schuller's appeal
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Economy:
US Consumer Spending Up 0.1% in February
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More than one-third of America holds no emergency savings
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Survey: Nearly Half of Consumers Are Saving Enough of Their Incomes
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Why are interest rates so low?
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New data show US economy stalled in first quarter • Economists breaking out the bubbly for 2015?
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The Fed’s ‘repression’ has cost savers $470 billion: Swiss Re
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St. Louis Fed: How Long Until “Slack” Is Out of the Labor Market?
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Low consumer spending points to slow first quarter
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Texas is in trouble
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The 100 Most Trustworthy Companies In America
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Bernanke: I didn’t throw seniors under the bus
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Three charts that could give Fed reason to not lift rates
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Just how big is government, anyway? Really, really, really big.
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
February's Pending Home Sales Hit Highest Level Since June 2013, Says NAR
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The US housing market comeback is far from over
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If We Repossessed Empty Homes, Homelessness Would Be Over
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Banks push back on foreclosure limitations
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LIHTC exit strategies: Right-sizing the loan
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The Impact of State Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Laws on Higher-Risk Lending: Evidence from FHA and Subprime Mortgage Originations
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Supreme Court revives ING mortgage bond lawsuit
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Bankrupt developer Sean Dunne is STILL building luxury projects
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3 things you need to understand mortgage default rates
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Municipalities:
Atlantic City Requests 60-Day Extension of New Jersey Loan • Atlantic City gets extension of state loan due Tuesday
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Panel weighing pay bump for Detroit's elected leaders • Commission approves 2.5 percent pay hike for Detroit City Council
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Is this going to be Detroit's salvation?
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Mass Tax Foreclosure Threatens Detroit Homeowners
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The Next Foundation Challenge in Detroit: A Bankrupt Public Education System • Report: State should remove DPS from EM control
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It's Crunch Time for Puerto Rico • Creditors grant Puerto Rico utility 15-day payment relief
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Scranton: Pension disputes threaten goodwill between city and unions
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How Chicago has used financial engineering to paper over its massive budget gap
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A Small Town Pushed to the Brink, and Coming Back
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Fastest-growing cities
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Fraud:
U.S. justices rebuff lawsuit against banks over Madoff Ponzi scheme
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'Diva of Distressed' Tilton Accused of Defrauding Investors • Nearly $200 Million Fraud • Valuations masked Lynn Tilton’s true returns: SEC
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Stanford receiver's case against Ben Barnes delayed
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Stalking Jon Corzine
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Consumer Finance:
CFPB unveils first draft of new rules for safety of payday loan consumers
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Mass Torts:
Insurer asks for relief in Pittsburgh Corning bankruptcy, cites evidence against asbestos lawyers
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BP says paying a fraction of oil spill bill could put its U.S. unit in trouble
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Retailing:
RadioShack Judge Extends Hearing With 7,000 Jobs at Stake
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Salus Capital Claims Shenanigans In RadioShack Bankruptcy Auction • Salus Capital says it won't up its bid for RadioShack
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Bankruptcy judge says lender dispute could block sale of RadioShack stores
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Could Standard General close on its RadioShack deal? Bankruptcy judge apparently doubts it • Bankruptcy judge casts doubt on Standard General's RadioShack deal
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Kanye West Seeks to Buy Streetwear Retailer Karmaloop
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Shuttered Alco stores up for rent or sale in the Eagle Ford Shale
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Bankruptcy bracketology and how SkyMall only sold for $1.9M
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Telecoms:
Harbinger Investor Suit Over Lightsquared Dismissed by Judge
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Investigations:
Bankrupt Security Firm Tapped Former Joint Chiefs Chairman
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Pensions:
Boomerangs and the PBGC, or When a Sale is Not a Sale
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Politics:
What liberals could learn from Ted Cruz’s flat tax
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Liz Warren steals moment in Kennedy Institute spotlight
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Personal Finance:
5 questions you should never ask in a job interview
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Celebs:
'Real Housewives Of New Jersey' Star With 47 License Suspensions Catches Another Break
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Prisons:
R.I. judge OKs Wyatt deal that puts off most bond payments
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Coal:
Appalachia Miners Wiped Out by Coal Glut They Can’t Reverse
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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 (18 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (144 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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Plan Confirmation:
Argument preview: Justices to use consumer bankruptcy case to resolve crucial question of reorganization process
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Involuntary Bankruptcy:
Involuntary Bankruptcy Petitions: A Powerful Weapon, But Beware of the Downside Risks
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Lien Stripping:
Supreme Court Takes Second Look at Second Liens
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SCOTUS:
Argument preview: Court to take on undistributed funds and bankruptcy conversion
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Secured Debt:
Lender Beware: The Pitfalls of Narrowly Defined Secured Obligations
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Avoidance Actions:
Reforming Preference Law
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Newspapers:
The Slow Death of the American Newspaper
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Cablevision wants to buy the New York Daily News for $1
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Banking:
The only new bank to open in the U.S. since 2010, when the Dodd-Frank law was passed
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Student Debt:
22 states where you could lose your license for not paying your student loans
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More Refuse to Repay Student Loans
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Video Games:
38 Studios auction takes in $90,000
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Corporate Reform:
Regulators Intensify Scrutiny of Bank Boards
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Healthcare:
Provider Preparedness in the Wake of CoOportunity Health's Liquidation
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Dotcoms:
HomeGrocer.com: Anatomy of a Failure
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Sovereigns:
Argentina in last-ditch manoeuvre to pay bondholders
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Clearstream will not process some Argentina coupon
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Cristina Fernández holds out for victory in debt battle
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Showdown betw. Paul Singer and de Kirchner’s Govt May Sink Argentina
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Lenders to Ukraine await sovereign debt restructuring
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UK:
The COMIngs and goings of COMI
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Slater & Gordon makes $947M offer to acquire major UK personal injury law firm
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City Link owner lashes out at MPs over “unfair” assertions
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Stockport firm collapses after GB Building Solutions insolvency
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EU:
Merkel urges Germans: Give Greece a chance • Merkel faces euro rebellion as senior official resigns
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PIIGS:
Crunch time: Greece risks rising once again • Germany says Greece must flesh out reforms to unlock aid • Greece needs an economic defibrillator and a debt write-off • Five ways the Grexit could happen
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Greek Exit Would be `Painful' to Euro Region, Humes Says
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Greek reform deal 'unlikely before Easter' • Greece says remains intent on reaching deal with lenders
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Canada:
Court to hear sale plan for Hamilton US Steel plants in Hamilton
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Future Shop latest Canadian retail casualty to succumb
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No help for Everest students
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We Can Bankrupt the Company for Sure, It’s Insolvent – Think Again
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China:
For the first time the Chinese government has admitted that things aren't going so well
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Beijing, U.S. baffled by China’s ‘new normal’
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Ukraine:
Ukraine's Russian Problem, Part 2
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Why Russia suddenly wants to supply cheap gas to Ukraine
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Ukraine to start large-scale privatisation
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Brazil:
Brazil bank's bonds crushed by bad loan provision in 50 percent wipeout
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Cyprus:
MPs end talk on fifth insolvency bill
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Romania:
Insolvencies down by more than half in Romania
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