April 22, 2015

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Law:

Concerned about lifestyle and balance? You probably won’t amount to much in the law, recruiter says
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Which law firms are most family friendly? Yale Law Women names top 10
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DLA Piper bolsters Restructuring practice in Los Angeles
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Why law schools are losing relevance — and how they’re trying to win it back
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Law School Puffery and Smoke Blowing
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California Law School Job Placement Rankings
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Law School Rankings And Law Firm Partners
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NYLJ: Special Report On Law Schools
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Alexandra Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi: What Did She Win In Attorneys’ Fees?
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Lawyer Missed Date With Beauty Queen Because He Was Dead
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80% of lawyers rate themselves as ‘above average’ but only 40% of clients see it that way
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Game Of (Office) Drones
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Zero-Based Budgeting And Law
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Cisco GC: I’m Trying to Buy Results
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Big Law’s Content Marketing Failure: Lack of Relevance
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Ballard Spahr’s Chair on Opening a NYC Office
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AG nominee Lynch nears vote thanks to new deal
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7 tricks for appearing smarter than you are
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BigLaw web sites set to plummet in Google search rankings
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$650,000 settlement reached in beating by San Bernardino County deputies Courtroom erupts after judge finds Chicago cop not guilty in Rekia Boyd fatal shooting trial, judge says officer should have been charged with murder
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Woman Uses Shopping Cart As Getaway Vehicle After Stealing Groceries
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Woman shoots husband who entered home in violation of protective order and is herself shot by police
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Free-Range Parents And The Law
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Cops: Mom Drove With Son, 13, On Car Hood
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Judges:

Justice Roy Moore compares marriage equality to segregation as he accepts civil rights award
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New York Judge Grants Chimpanzees Habeas Corpus Hearing No, A Judge Didn’t Say Chimpanzees Are People
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After 22 Years, Appellate Judge in Epic Pollution Case Suggests a Do-Over
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The Ferguson Effect on Justice Roberts
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Wall Street:

Stock futures fall with day of earnings ahead
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Trader charged for contributing to 2010 flash crash Huge test for US prosecutors The Complaint
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Layoffs:

Employers cut jobs in 31 US states as growth slows
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BLS: Twenty-Three States had Unemployment Rate Decreases in March
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Electricity:

Energy Future Lenders Say They’ll Suffer Losses Without Premium
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DOE Just Produced A Multi-Trillion Dollar Headache For Congress
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Gambling:

Revel casino brought down by a long list of mistakes
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No construction permits sought yet for Revel casino
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Is someone blocking Revel , Stockton?
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Taj Mahal wants judge to penalize union over letters Judge to consider ordering Local 54 mea culpa
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Retailing:

Former Target employees burn their shirts
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Healthcare:

Daughters of Charity Health System hires Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for restructuring
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Daughters of Charity slashes hundreds of jobs after Prime Healthcare sale collapses
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Doctors Medical Center closes its doors
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Scorecard: US Health Care System vs. the World's
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Cemeteries:

State considering "emergency action" against Church Hill cemetery
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Asphalt:

Sargeant Family Reaches Deal Over Texas Refinery - Requires Bankruptcy Court Approval
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Consultants:

Legal Solutions Provider Epiq Systems Names Pamela Corrie as Managing Director, Corporate Restructuring
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Privacy:

States say RadioShack shopper info still at risk of sale
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Celebs:

Attorneys aim to get founder of ultra-rich club released
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'Real Housewives' star Teresa Giudice's foreclosures: 7 questions answered 'The Real Housewives Of New Jersey' news: Teresa Giudice's beach home scheduled for auction
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Tech:

GT Advanced Technologies Extends Solicitation Period in Connection With DIP Loan Facility
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Amusement Parks:

Conneaut Lake Park seeks $300K to open for season
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Politics:

McCain Busts Cruz's Lies Again Ted Cruz: Heard but not seen
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Obama: Elizabeth Warren is wrong on my big trade deal
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Currency:

Mt. Gox Customers Can Now File Claims For Their Lost Bitcoins
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Economy:

Economists have discovered how bad the economy really is
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Where do millennials get $? Bank of mom and dad
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New York Apartments, Art Top Gold as Stores of Wealth
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Where Your 2014 Taxes Went
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Americans are deluded about when they will retire 4 Reasons Workers Need A Retirement Reality Check
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Where the 1% warehouses its abundant wealth
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Economic optimism at highest level in Obama era
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The mysterious case of weak 1Q GDP, for 30 years!
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Why the Sharing Economy is Soaring
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Chemical Activity Barometer "Leading Economic Indicator Rises for Fourth Consecutive Month"
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Title Insurance May Not Save Secured Lenders from Priming Mechanic’s Liens
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March foreclosure starts skyrocket 18% from February
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase, Purchase Apps up 16% YoY
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88,000 90,000 apply to get in this 'poor door'
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Bombshell: Treasury now claims Fannie, Freddie bailout wasn’t loan Who Owns Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac?
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After a $30 million price cut, mansion still sells for $45 million
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Orlando: Gateway Village owner files for Chapter 11 on eve of auction
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Detroit: Eastland Center misses payment on $37.43 million loan Is Eastland mall on same path as now-closed Northland?
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Distress Deals Present Growing Opportunity for Senior Living Buyers
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Lenders Looking Hard at Tenant Financials
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Municipalities:

Yields hit 5.63 pct in Chicago schools bond sale
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NJEA breaks off pension talks with Christie panel
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Puerto Rico to delay filing audited financial statements
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Michigan Supreme Court: Pension Reforms were Constitutional
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There's a crisis brewing in a major city's public school system
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Fitch: Back off bankruptcy talk
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Detroit Just Had the Single Largest Tax Foreclosure in American History
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San Bernardino hires spokeswoman for bankruptcy
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Kansas lawmakers want the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich
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Awards:

Brad Eric Scheler to Deliver Monmouth University Commencement Speech and Receive Honorary Degree
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Ronit Berkovich Named Among Turnarounds & Workouts’ “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers”
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Religion:

Paper loses bid for abuse claims info in diocese bankruptcy
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After K.C. bishop's resignation, what of Nienstedt?
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Oil/Gas:

Oil Prices Fall as Middle East Tensions Ease
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Nabors has laid off thousands in 2015, including more than 40 percent of its drilling unit employees
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Exxon CEO Warns of Oilpatch Turning Point
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Sobering Low Oil Price CEOs Expect for Years
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What Happens To US Shale When The Easy Money Runs Out?
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Energy firms must cut unsustainable costs: Statoil CEO
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Baker Hughes increases layoffs to 10,500
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Oil Price Rally Has Markets Uneasy
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Investors gambling on oil making U.S. “center” of oil market
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Low prices slow, but won’t end, Canadian oil sands development
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Distressed Investor Opportunity In Oil Patch Master Limited Partnerships
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Personal Finance:

Don't count on working longer to salvage retirement
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Six good ways to reduce your monthly bills
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Weather:

Why California's drought hasn't sent food prices soaring
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William Shatner's $30B California drought fix
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Beverly Hills may fine water wasters $1,000
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The Calif. Town That's Already Out of Water
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Coal:

Peabody execs take pay cuts as losses pile up
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Patriot Coal Said to Explore Sale Option in Second Restructuring
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Arch Coal reports a $113 million loss Arch Coal: First-Quarter Results Were Not Bad At All
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Festivals:

Beleaguered Shakespeare Festival files for bankruptcy
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Soccer:

Parma on the market for $28 million
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IP:

Aereo gets the last laugh, settles copyright claims for less than a penny on the dollar
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Art:

Trustee in Truland Group bankruptcy to probe company's sale of artwork
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Mass Torts:

The Case That Could Redefine Mass Litigation Over Oil Spills, Work Hazards
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CDC: Blue Bell Listeria Outbreak May be 5 Years Old
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Hedge Funds:

Lawyer: Heather Capital Founder 'Acted Fully in Good Faith'
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Social Media:

Tweet All About It: U.S. Bankruptcy Court Rules Business Social Media Accounts Are Property of Debtor LLC's Bankruptcy Estate, Not Individual LLC Members
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Fraud:

Judge allows case against Stanford banks to go on
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 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 (26 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (14 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:

(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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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Why It’s OK That Companies Are Dying Faster Than Ever
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The economy needs more insolvencies
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Business Bankruptcy Filings Continue To Decline, Will The Trend Continue?
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Automatic Stay:

Bank Violated Automatic Stay by Placing Administrative Freeze on Debtor’s Bank Account
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Discharge:

Bankruptcy Judge Rules Ignition Switch Plaintiffs Cannot Un-bake GM’s Cake Senators press GM on extending ignition compensation
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Bankruptcy Reform:

ABI Commission Report – Post-Confirmation Entities & Claims Trading
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Property of the Estate:

Bankruptcy Court “Right-Swipes” Debtor’s Property Interest in Its Social Media Accounts
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Sanctions:

Federal judge jails ex-billionaire for contempt until he explains where $13.8M from resort sale went
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Recent Pleadings:

Quicksilver Committee Slams "Overly Generous" "Perks" In Proposed Adequate Protection Package
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TBTF:

Closing Arguments Loom in AIG Bailout Trial
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The Five Questions AIG Bailout Judge Wants Answered
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Aviation:

How the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Enabled the American/US Airways Merger
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ANA to take up to 19.9% stake in bankrupt budget carrier Skymark Skymark president, chairman could step down
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Accounting:

KPMG becomes the second Big Four accounting firm to have a female CEO
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Paper:

LePage not happy about Great Northern tax credits, but a deal's a deal Maine leaders want changes to tax-credits program
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Sovereigns:

Argentina: Gov't dismisses holdout warnings over debt auction NML Capital threatens legal action over new Bonar 2024 sale NML Said to Query Deutsche Bank on Involvement in Argentine Sale
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Kicillof: Vultures try to frighten people from working with Argentina
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UK:

Struggling Tesco posts pre-tax loss of $9.5B Tesco boss warns trading profit could fall further in 2015/16 Tesco gives more detail on supplier deals after scandal The incredible rise and fall of Tesco
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Addicted to underpants: Man's compulsion to wear new boxers every day left him facing bankruptcy
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UK: Record Number Now Using Food Banks
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EU:

Europe's eye-watering youth unemployment figures show how the bloc is still incredibly divided
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Euro-Area Debt Levels Surge to Record, Led by Greece
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PIIGS:

Greece facing 'Lehman moment' as debt costs soar Mythology that blocks progress in Greece
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This Greek crisis is nothing like 2012’s, so far
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Greek contagion risks may be higher than you think
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Juncker: There won’t be a Grexit, but Athens is not cooperating
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ECB emergency funds to Greece directly tied to health of its banks Greeks creak as the ECB squeezes the banks again ECB Said to Study Curbs on Greek Bank Funds; Unease Grows ECB to fund Greek banks as long as they stay solvent: Coeure
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Varoufakis Sees Differences Narrowing in Creditor Talks
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The IMF's big Greek mistake
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Greek anger over state cash grab from hospitals, schools Greece hopes for $2.7 billion from cash from state entities
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Greek stocks — how a crazy gamble could pay off
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Ladbrokes secures court protection to restructure Irish unit
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ie: Taoiseach all but rules out cut to bankruptcy term
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Germany:

Germany Raises 2015 Growth Forecast on Consumer Spending
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Russia:

Sanctions will cost Russia more than $100 billion
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Ukraine:

From Putin, a New Tune on Ukraine?
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Mexico:

Mexico homebuilder Geo sets meeting to present debt restructuring
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Brazil:

Some Creditors Pushing Brazil's Eneva For Debt-For-Equity Deal
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Bulgaria:

Bulgarian court declares Corpbank insolvent
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China:

Chinese State-Owned Company, in a First, Defaults on Its Domestic Bonds
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Baoding Tianwei Default Exposes Weaknesses in China Solar Sector
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