May 18, 2016

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Law:

Fewer Law School Graduates Did NOT Translate Into More Jobs
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Law Firms Have Best Quarter In 8 Years
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Lawyer known for his costumed ‘Excuseman’ character is indicted in $1.1M client theft
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George Mason Gets Go-Ahead for ‘Scalia Law School’
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Everything That’s Wrong With Legal Education — According To Law School Deans
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Sneak Peak At The New 2016 ATL Law School Rankings
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Arizona’s Friday The 13th Bar Exam Results Were The Worst In More Than 10 Years
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New Student Loan Rates For Law Students
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Why Attorneys Need To Look At Other Ways To Present At Trial
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Lawyer is censured over $71K legal bill that included $30K in interest
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Upset by people who ‘spit their venom’ online, name partner seeks identity of reviewers
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Does the Second Amendment include the right to sell arms? Why Gun Rights Keep Expanding
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Strong and wrong: Why does the office look like an expelled fraternity provides the cleaning services?
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Beyond Biglaw: Cooking Up Career Insights
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Accused "p--- troll", Paul Hansmeier loses bankruptcy attorney Barbara May, who asks to withdraw
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The first 50 lashes
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Husband divorces wife because she was too busy texting on their wedding night
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Don't pet the Yellowstone bison, or put them in your car
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Jury awards $1.6M to man in supermarket slip-and-fall, including $1M in punitives
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Lewis Brisbois sues developer of building destroyed by arson, seeks damages for forced office move
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GAO Study: US Schools are Resegregating
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Zimmerman Attacks Trayvon's Parents
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Man gets 37 months in federal prison for intimidating witness on Facebook
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Judges:

Sotomayor Urges Mandatory Pro Bono for All Lawyers
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The Crippled Supreme Court
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In contraception case, Supreme Court acted like it was the 1950s
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Judges Spill The Beans On How They #LiveWell
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Wall Street:

Wall Street stocks in holding pattern ahead of Fed minutes
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Stocks on Wall Street close down after US inflation picks up
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Goldman Sachs loses faith in stocks, but warms up to oil
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Layoffs:

Pennsylvania Excel Homes plant closed, idling 280 workers
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BB&T to lay off 241 former National Penn employees
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Politics:

Donald Trump fumes after Hillary Clinton allies unload on him in new ads Meet the 14 people who could be Donald Trump's running mate The Tea Party Eyes Donald Trump—Warily Donald Trump and the ‘Ideal Woman’ Trump as president: Would 'special relationship' with Britain end? Cuban: Trump is not 'a reflection of an entrepreneur' After a weekend of bad press, why the tax returns could still be Trump's kryptonite Where Donald Trumps Stands on Guns Silicon Valley is mocking Trump Trump to Meet with Kissinger An Analysis: The Mind of Donald Trump
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Hillary Video: 13 Minutes of Non-Stop Lying
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Sanders Wins Oregon, Clinton Kentucky
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Rift Between Key Democratic Factions Could Hurt Turnout
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From Sanders Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates
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Abedin Among Six Set for Quizzing in Clinton E-Mail Case
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Is This the Worst Congress Ever?
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Retailing:

Liquidators win at Sports Authority bankruptcy auction Tiger-led Liquidator Group Wins Bankruptcy Auction for Sports Authority Fate of Sports Authority's eight Hawaii stores still unclear following Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction
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Sports Authority Name Said to Go Unsold at Bankruptcy Auction
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Stop blaming Amazon! Retail's blame game shows some cracks
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Rout In Retail Likely To Continue
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Education:

Rikers Inmates Beat Columbia Students in Debate
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People are saying Bernie Sanders' wife drove this Vermont college into the ground — but a board member explained the real 'nail in the coffin'
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A lawsuit over Trump University is going to New York's highest court
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Distressed Investing:

Carl Icahn is officially junk
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Alternative Energy:

The Biggest Problems for SunEdison's Yieldcos
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Lessons from a solar startup's failure
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Consultants:

FTI Consulting Appoints Carlyn Taylor and Michael Eisenband as Global Co-Leaders of Corporate Finance & Restructuring
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Coal:

Peabody Energy Receives Final Court Approval Of $800 Million DIP Financing Facility
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Debt Collection:

Supreme Court Rules No Collection Violations in Ohio Case Supreme Court Holds Law Firms’ Use of AG Letterhead Does Not Raise 'Specter of Consumer Confusion'
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Alternative Finance:

LendingClub Tumbles After Investors Suspend Debt Purchases
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Hollywood:

After A Tortured History, Four Relativity Titles To See Light Of Day
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Telecoms:

US district court judge to speed division of remaining Nortel assets Opinion
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Economy:

U.S. Industrial Production Rebounded In April US factory output boosted by machinery, auto production
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Rising gas prices are driving a surge in inflation Stocks fall as inflation hits 3-year high
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U.S. debt dump deepens in 2016
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This is the real problem with negative interest rates Central banks shouldn’t rely on QE, subzero rates, helicopter money
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Minutes expected to show Fed is serious about tightening this year Fed officials Williams, Lockhart stress that June meeting is ‘live’ Yellen’s Philly speech in early June could be key
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U.S. Economy Warms Up After Winter’s Chill
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Women in Elite Jobs Face Stubborn Pay Gap
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Employers Struggle to Find Workers Who Can Pass a Drug Test
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Obama Administration Set to Extend Overtime Pay to Millions
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The richest Wall Streeters in the world want you to give up your billionaire dreams
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

U.S. Housing Starts Rose in April April housing starts fall slightly from last year
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NAHB Index Unchanged in May, Pointing to Steady Housing Growth
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Here's why Freddie Mac says the mortgage credit box is so tight
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CA: SB 308 would help homeowners in bankruptcy
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New York Banking Regulator Investigates ‘Seller-Financed’ Home Sales
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Here's the income you need to comfortably pay rent on a 2-bedroom apartment in 15 of the largest US cities
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Waikiki Landing developer gets more time to secure financing
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Retail REITs Can't Avoid The Pain Of Slower Sales Pain in Retail REITs Could Spread Beyond Bad Malls
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Municipalities:

Attorney: Judge Would Put Chicago Public Schools' Bankruptcy On 'Short Leash'
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A real Hamiltonian response for Puerto Rico
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Fact Check: "Almost 100,000 people left Puerto Rico last year."
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House Can't Decide How To Appoint Puerto Rico's Oversight Board
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Michigan projects lower revenue amid Flint, Detroit money push Officials set to trim state budget $460M over 2 years $460M state budget hole could impact funding for Flint water crisis
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At DPS , an emergency manager by another name
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Oil/Gas:

Samson Resources' banks to gain ownership in new bankruptcy plan
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Oil companies, lenders negotiate restructuring support agreements - “capital structure reengineering”
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S&P Downgrades Stone Energy to 'D' Following Missed Interest Payment, Bankruptcy Possible Stone Energy Says Bankruptcy Filing a Possibility
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Why Letters of Credit Are A Preferred Form of Collateral in Bankruptcy
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Wall Street banking on oil recovery in flurry of shale stock deals
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Why Big Oil Is Exiting the Arctic
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Oil prices edge lower, pushed down by stronger dollar
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Can Oil Prices Hold Onto Gains At $50 Per Barrel?
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Will U.S. Shale Stage A Comeback As Oil Nears $50?
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Oil could snap back bigger and badder than ever
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Time To Run From Oil - 'Rally' Masking Growing Risk To Capital
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SandRidge Energy's Bankruptcy Is An Early Termination Why SandRidge Employees Should Strike And Shareholders Should Fight
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Oklahoma Oil Industry About To Lose Tax Rebates, Bankruptcies To Follow
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As Oil Boom Goes Bust, Oklahoma Protects Drillers and Squeezes Schools
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Shell Looks to Offload $40B In Non-Core Assets
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Suncor Evacuates Thousands of Oil Workers As Alberta Wildfires Shift Fort McMurray fire sweeps east through northern oilsands sites
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Penn Virginia Files For Bankruptcy in Richmond, Virginia
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Oil May Hit $50 But There Are Still Good, Bad and Ugly Plays
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Oil Companies Are Still Paying Their CEOs to Pump
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Vanguard Natural Resources: Circling The Drain?
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BP Exploration Boss Leaves in Reorganization BP Searches for the Bottom
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This is the biggest upside risk in oil , says strategist
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Two More U.S. Oil Company Bankruptcies: That’s Four Since Last Week
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Twilight of the Petrostate
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Metals:

Amid bankruptcy , Columbus Castings finds potential buyer Columbus Castings parent files for bankruptcy
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Celebs:

Shockey posts, deletes Sapp bankruptcy documents
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Charlie Sheen Sued By AmEx
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Travel:

Chicago Airports Recommend 3-Hour Cushion For Security Lines Tuesday
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Here's Why the TSA Is So Terrible
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Autos:

Driverless cars will change everything — and could be disastrous for one industry
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Radio:

IHeartRadio Struggles to Calm Partners in Debt Default Trial
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Banking:

SCOTUS: Sure, You Can Sue BofA For Racketeering
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Television:

'So You Think You Can Dance' Gets a Lifeline from Elvis Presley
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Core Entertainment Lines Up $30 Million Bankruptcy Loan
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(9 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 (23 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (3 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Discharge:

High Court Takes Broad View of Fraud in Bankruptcy Cases Supreme Court: concealment sufficient for bankruptcy fraud Discharge Exception for Fraud by Corporate Insider Is More Broad Than Circuit Court of Appeals Had Thought Supreme Court Clarifies § 523(a)(2)(A)’s “Actual Fraud” in Husky v. Ritz SCOTUS Gives Creditors Greater Capacity to Allege Fraud in Bankruptcy Proceedings Supreme Court: concealment sufficient for bankruptcy fraud Fraudulent Transfer Judgments May Survive a Debtor’s Bankruptcy Filing: Supreme Court Clarifies Meaning of “Actual Fraud” Fraudulent Conveyances Qualify As “Actual Fraud”
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Miami Beach couple arrested for alleged bankruptcy fraud
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Feds Charge $3 Million Hidden in Personal Bankruptcies
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Fraud:

Madoff Update: Mere Suspicion of Fraud Not Enough to Extend Trustee “Claw-Back” to Six Years
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Pensions:

Sun Capital Court Decision Adds to ERISA Concerns for Private Equity Funds
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Executory Contracts:

Section 365(a) – Cherry Picking Executory Contracts
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Avoidance Actions:

Ritz Might Give Fraudulent Conveyance Transferees Fits
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Another Wave of Standard Register Company Preference Actions Filed
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Mediation:

6 Reasons Why Bankruptcy Mediation is a Process, Not a One-and-Done Session: Part Four — Freshness Of The Fight
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Professional Employment:

Bankruptcy Watchdogs Say McKinsey Disclosures Are Inadequate
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Predatory Lending:

One In Five Auto Title Loan Borrowers Have Their Vehicles Seized, Typically Pay 300% Annual Interest: Report
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Healthcare:

Owner of former Charleston naval hospital files for bankruptcy
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Judge OKs sale of Southlake hospital to Methodist Health System Bankruptcy judge approves sale of Forest Park's Southlake hospital Here’s a scorecard to track Forest Park Medical Center’s hospital ownership changes
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Number of Uninsured in U.S. Dropped Below 10% for First Time in 2015
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Nonprofit Hospitals Adjust to Attract Investors
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Personal Finance:

What not to buy during Memorial Day sales
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How couples can master the financial balancing act
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Taxis:

Google is launching its own ridesharing service—Uber, Lyft and everyone else should be worried
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Food/Beverage:

Red Robin Tumbles After Curbing Sales Forecast, Expansion Plans
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UK:

Record number of solvent companies liquidated
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Brexit: Are You Prepared?
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PIIGS:

IMF Proposal on Greece Sets Up Battle With Germany Greece bond prices bounce as debt relief talks begin in earnest
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Creditors Insist on Specifics of Greece's Spending Cuts Mechanism
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Canada:

Target Hit With Investor Suit Over Retreat From Canada
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Venezuela:

Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals Venezuela's Downward Spiral Venezuela on verge of political, economic collapse Opposition leader urges Venezuelans to defy state of emergency
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Brazil:

Petrobras to Offer New Debt, Repurchase Up to $3B in Bonds
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Oi Bondholders Said to Mull $2.9 Billion Debt-to-Equity Swap
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Brazil’s would-be king and his two-bed rented home in São Paulo
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MENA:

Abu Dhabi Puts the Brakes On With Growth Set to Slump
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Dubai government organization calls for bankruptcy reform
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Germany:

Dairy farms in crisis as milk now cheaper than water
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India:

Six things you must know about Bankruptcy Bill What Bankruptcy Bill is all about?
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Japan:

Mitsubishi UFJ's Energy Loans Beg Questions of Banks
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Austria:

Austria, Heta creditors strike deal to break debt impasse Austrian State Dodges Default With $12.4 Billion Debt Deal Overall repayment rate of planned Heta offer seen at 90 pct-sources
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