Law:
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Staff Attorneys Getting Shafted
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Sheppard Mullin, BakerHostetler, Cornell: Business of Law
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Latham & Watkins, Kirkland, Weil Gotshal: Business of Law
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Week Ahead in Bankruptcy : Coda, ResCap and AMR
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Racial Diversity Efforts Ebb for Elite Careers, Analysis Finds
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Berger Singerman's Business Reorganization Team Receives High Rankings In The World-Famous Chambers USA 2013 Guide
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Howrey trustee hired to recover money in Dewey --- Ex-Dewey Partners Face New Foe in Firm's Bankruptcy
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The rise of the fourth branch of government
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Is The Moment Ripe? Notable Increase In Law School Applications --- Law School Applications Are Up (But Down)
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‘Boys Clubs’ can be a source of workplace gender bias, partner says
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Andrew Balbus, a Bankruptcy Lawyer with a Mission to Help
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7 Things You Should Never Wear To The Office On Summer Fridays
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Insurance lawyer falls to his death while inspecting roof for storm damage
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Appeals court cuts ‘unconscionable’ legal bill from $44M to perhaps $3M
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Summer Reading List — Tomorrow’s Lawyers
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MBA Salary Expectations: Sober Reckoning or Wishful Thinking?
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UK: Calls to Privatize the Courts
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Bar Admission ‘Anniversary’ Plaques? Don’t Be That Guy
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Man Jumps Off Building, Lands On And Kills Young Girl Walking Below
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Oregon Teen Allegedly Planned An Attack Bigger Than Columbine
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Former Bush Adviser's Son Charged In Alleged Murder With A Hatchet
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Justice Department defends journalist email search
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Judge apologizes for lack of transparency in leak probe
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Why Sheriff Joe's Day May be Numbered --- Judge: Sheriff Joe Did Do Profiling
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Prosecutor May Probe Facebook Over Girl Who Killed Herself After Online Bullying
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Officials: Gunman in Texas rampage was Marine
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Policemen Pop Post-It Note Perpetrator
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Assault With A Deadly . . . Garden Gnome?
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Man says Walmart suspected him of kidnapping kids -- because they're biracial
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Judge blocks bid to stop 'Brooklyn D.A.' show
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Judges:
Sotomayor takes SCOTUS chief justice seat to re-enact famous baseball case
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Sitting judge is held and under federal investigation
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Judges You’d Totally Want To Hang Out With This Weekend
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Judge McCree Gets Off On Robbing Cradles
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Wall Street:
U.S. Stock Futures Climb After S&P 500 Posted Weekly Loss
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Markets Are Rallying All Around The World
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Economic Reality Finally Cracks Market Fervor
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Wall Street Intern Mistakes
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Layoffs:
Job Creation Under the Last 5 Presidents
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12 Jobs That Must Evolve Or Die
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There's Been A Mass Exodus From The US Workforce, And It's Going To Continue For Decades
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Black Unemployment Is Still Shamefully High
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Fight continues to help laid off Vertis workers
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In the Future We’ll All Be TaskRabbits
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Talent Shortage: Employers Struggle to Fill Vacancies
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:
What Better Place's bankruptcy tells us about the future of electric cars --- The lesson from Better Place’s bankruptcy: Be more like Tesla --- Renault plays down collapse of Israeli-US battery firm --- How The Better Place Bankruptcy Is Relevant To Tesla's Achilles' Heal --- The fall of Better Place: When vision isn't enough --- Renault to End Better Place Partnership After Bankruptcy
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Henrik Fisker bidding with Hong Kong tycoon to get his company back
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Where are they now (Fisker edition)? The story gets even weirder
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Can Investor Revive Tesla Rival Fisker, Buy DOE Loan?
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Attorneys for government, unsecured creditors file objections to CODA bankruptcy plan
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May Vehicle Sales forecast to be at or above 15 million SAAR
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Awards:
Ericka Johnson Appointed to Leadership Roles in ABI, IWIRC
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Mass Torts:
Pittsburgh Corning Judge Approves Plan, Rejects Insurers
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Golf:
Woodcrest's $10.1M sale gets approved
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Credit Reporting:
Here's What We Can Tell About You Based On Your Credit Score
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Agriculture:
Madonia Family in Bankruptcy ; Tomato Farms, Land for Sale
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Fraud:
New bankruptcy petition filed in Soddy-Daisy Ponzi scheme case
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$6.8M scam leaves trail of foreclosures, bankruptcies
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Judge keeps trustee on Vaughan case
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Peter Madoff's New York mansion up for sale
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Economy:
The Lesson of a Falling Bridge
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America: Where the Poor Don't Get Holidays Off
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The Long-Term Costs of the Sequester Battle in America
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On Memorial Day, America Honors Soldiers By Cutting Their Benefits
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Definition of generational cohorts
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TARP transactions cost the federal government less than expected
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11 Skyscrapers That Predicted History's Worst Financial Crises
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Nations Around The World Are Getting Smoked By Corporations
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Buffett's Berkshire Thinks This Bankruptcy Deal Stinks
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Zillow: 44% with Mortgages Can't Sell Home
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WCI plans $150 million IPO
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N.Y. Assembly passes 'shadow docket' legislation
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Ally settlement may be a boon for ResCap bondholders
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Illinois Legislature and Court Clarifies Confusion on Mortgage Requirements after In re Crane
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Appraisers Go After Chase for Fees from Failed AMC
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Student Debt:
In Showing Undue Hardship, Court Is Not Allowed To Come Into Your House and Repurpose Your Wife
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7 million students brace for surge in loan rates
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Pricking the college loan bubble
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Health Care:
It Looks Like Obamacare May Not Be A 'Train Wreck' After All
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High-End Health Plans Scale Back to Avoid ‘Cadillac Tax’
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Mysterious 'Alien Hand Syndrome' Is Embarrassing And Terrifying
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IRS role in Obamacare
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Aviation:
AMR's $20 Million Severance Pay for CEO Horton Opposed by US --- Severance package from AMR again under fire
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AMR Seeks to Buy Back Bonds Ahead of US Airways Merger
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Citigroup Presses AMR to Decide on Credit-Card Tie
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40% Of People Never Use Their Frequent-Flyer Miles
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Plane Passengers Use Shoelaces To Stop Guy From Trying To Open Exit Door
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Tax:
The IRS Scandal Is a Test: Is It Too Hard to Fire Misbehaving Bureaucrats?
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IRS controversy puts White House counsel in spotlight
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IRS was Right to Flag Some Groups
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If Corporate Profits Are at an All-Time High, Why Are Corporate Taxes Near a 60-Year Low?
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Eric Schmidt's Justification For Google Paying Only £10 Million In Tax On £12 Billion In Sales
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Credit Suisse warns of U.S. tax spat escalation if talks fail
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Accounting:
Grant Thornton Settles Claims from Winstar Bankruptcy
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Municipalities:
Who takes hit in city bankruptcies: bondholders or workers?
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States sinking in pension plan debt
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Stockton And San Bernardino Bankruptcies Follow Divergent Paths
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San Bernardino: City enters legal quagmire with recalls
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Economist faults both Stockton plans
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Detroit emergency manager ponders a sell-off
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Battle brewing over Detroit museum collection --- Detroit Museum Says No to Sales --- Says art collection a public trust, not for sale --- Met Director Decries Detroit Bid to Pillage Own Museum
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The DIA has just received its last gift --- DIA backers band to fight potential sale of artwork --- Met director decries idea of Detroit pillaging the DIA collection
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On DIA, Orr tells the truth
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Detroit's foundations spread money through broken city
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What crisis? Detroit pension fund trustees jet to Hawaii
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Bankruptcy question clouded in Groton
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Mayor of fiscally distressed Harrisburg ousted --- Will a new face in the mayor's office improve Harrisburg's image?
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California's New Problem: Too Much Money --- Jerry Brown is Restoring the California Dream
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Coal:
James River Coal: How Its Debt Swap Affects Valuation And Bankruptcy Risk
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Manufacturing:
Bankrupt Keene manufacturing company sues buyer of its assets
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Office Supplies:
Chordus Inc. files Ch. 11 bankruptcy
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Non-Profits:
Iconic Not-For-Profit Agency Emerges Out of Bankruptcy
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Data:
Will Phillip Frost bid for TLO in bankruptcy?
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Ethanol:
Struggling Ethanol Makers Hope to Snap Back
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Personal Finance:
I Am A Trust Fund Baby And I Did Nothing To Earn It
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The Three Cheapest Things You Can Buy At Costco
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Health and Beauty:
Fat-Melting Laser Distributor Files for Bankruptcy
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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 (25 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (16 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 Bonuses:
Trustee Opposes $20 Million Payout To American Airlines CEO
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Miscellaneous:
The Bankruptcy Files: Big Ideas Go Bust
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Eligibility:
Bankruptcy Court Construes Operating Agreement to Determine Chapter 11 Filing Authority
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Discharge:
US Supreme Court Deciphers "Defalcation" in Bullock: A Canonical Exercise in "Reading Law" (Scalia/Garner)
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Finance:
Make Whole: In re School Specialty, Inc.
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Examiners:
Unseal ResCap report
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Recent Pleadings:
UST Objects to AMR Disclosure Statement, Slams Horton Payment and Payment of Committee Members' Legal Fees
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Trustee Denied Stay Of Order Forcing Him To Step Down From All Pending Appointments
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TBTF:
Regulating Bank Governance: Mandating CEO-Chairman Division at Too-Big-to-Fail Banks
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Celebs:
Former Razorback Coach John L. Smith Settles Transfer Dispute in Bankruptcy Case
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13 Of The Ugliest Celebrity Bankruptcies In History
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Billy Joel clarifies bankruptcy rumors
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IRS Targets Dionne Warwick's Tax Debt
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The Broke and the Beautiful: Sinbad Edition
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Amanda Bynes Showed Up To Court Looking Disheveled In A Blonde Wig
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All-American Cheese Racer Skunks Brits :)
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The 17 Most Hated Celebrities Of The Year
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Furniture:
Judge OKs shredding of Linwood's records
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Sovereigns:
Citibank Asks US Court for Argentina Bond -Payment Assurances --- Citibank Argues Bond Rulings Don't Apply to Argentina Branch
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Argentina Bond Judge Says He Can't Rule on Citigroup Request
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Argentine case a test for debt restructurings, states IMF
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Rating agencies alert to Argentina debt ruling, souring economy
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Bondholders spark US legal drama over Argentine debt
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IMF frowns at holdouts' case
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IMF launches broad review on sovereign debt restructurings
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UK:
UK: 20% of Shops Will Fail by 2018
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U.K. Banks Cut 189,000 With Employment at Nine-Year Low
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More Irish moving to Britain for bankruptcy --- Ireland needs to sort bankruptcy tourism
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Irish property developers penalized for trying to abuse UK bankruptcy system
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High-living bankrupts are laughing at all of us
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Rangers fans tell Platini to ferme la bouche after bankruptcy claim
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EU:
The Only Difference Between The US And Europe That Matters
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Germany Will Now Gamble on Stimulus
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Restructuring expert appointed interim CEO of Bank of Cyprus
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The Youth Unemployment Chart That Could Destroy Europe
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German Home Boom as Europe Stagnates Set to Hurt Merkel Bid
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PIIGS:
Spain's Route to Recovery: What's Missing? --- Shares in Spain's Bankia fall 20 pct after cash injection --- Bankia stock tumbles after new shares hit market
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ie: Banks must face reality and solve the mortgage crisis for all our sakes --- Banks, we're watching you on debt relief offers --- Ulster Bank missed Dunne '12 times' --- Two bankrupt Irish developers penalized in UK for hiding assets
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The Sad Decline Of Italy's Once Massive Appliance Industry
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Canada:
Americans Are a Lot More Miserable About the Economy Than Canadians
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Suddenly bankrupt: People with great credit scores are hurtling into crisis
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France:
French Consumer Confidence Collapsing
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As Rich Parisians Flee the Taxman, Real Estate Prices Fall
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Netherlands:
Dutch independent retailer Free Record Shop files for bankruptcy
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China:
Bankruptcy trustees reveal their real value
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China’s Millennials Face Tough Job Market
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China is starting to get embarrassed about its tourists’ obnoxious behavior abroad
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