August 7, 2018

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Law:

Biglaw Firm Announces Raises For Midlevel And Senior Associates, Junior Associates Left Out In The Cold
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After rising in June, legal sector employment drops by 2,100 jobs
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These 10 GCs Made the Most Cash in 2017
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Trump Lawyer Emmet Flood's Financial Disclosure Shows $3.3M Partner Share
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Baker McKenzie boosts industry with record $2.9 billion revenues
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Plan to drop law school entry exam requirement withdrawn before ABA House vote ABA Holds Off on Removing LSAT Requirement for Law Schools
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The Law School With The Worst Bar Exam Passage Rate
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NALP data: When there are fewer law school graduates, there are fewer law school graduates with jobs
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ABA to Slash Dues Amid Membership Drop
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Dean who oversaw Cooley's dramatic rise and fall in enrollment to retire
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It’s [Not] The Economy, Stupid
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Baker McKenzie’s Growth Shows Value of One-Stop Legal Shopping
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LA's 'Bank to the Stars' Targets Am Law 200 with New Citi Hires
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Showing anger can backfire for women lawyers, studies say; law prof suggests ‘gender judo’ response
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Women Think Harassment Is a Problem. Men: Not So Much
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Find a Truth Teller
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Lawyer Loneliness: You’re Not Alone in Feeling Alone
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Experienced Women Report Dissatisfaction at Law Firms More experienced the woman lawyer, greater the dissatisfaction Why Do Experienced Female Lawyers Leave The Profession?
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Women Partners, Law Firm Leaders Have Vastly Different Big Law Lives, Study Shows
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In Wake of Bias Suit and Defections, Ogletree Deakins Airs Beef With Ex-Partner
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Ex-Stoel Rives partner drops age bias suit; law firm says he got firing date wrong by over a year
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Asia Becomes Ground Zero In Big 4 Effort To Take Over The Legal Market
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The Texas Top 100: Firms Moving Into Texas Market Grow Significantly
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Wannabe Law School Students Love Standardized Tests
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On Being A ‘Yes’ Man
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Technology Failure in the Courtroom is a Lawyer’s Worst Nightmare
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After Testy Deposition, Judge Orders Lawyers for Wachtell, Icahn Entity to Court
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Here’s how to follow up on an unanswered email without being obnoxious
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Lawyer iPhone stories
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Imposter Syndrome in Big Law Millennials: A Survival Guide
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Utah Nears Licensing of Paralegals to Practice Law in Limited Circumstances
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Donald Trump Featured In LSAT Test Prep Questions As ‘Unfit’ For Presidency, Supporter Of ‘Racist’ Policies LSAT Prep Book Says 'Ronald Thump' Manipulated Tax and Bankruptcy Loopholes
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Rick Gates becomes key for defense as prosecution builds case in Paul Manafort's trial Rick Gates set to testify against Paul Manafort Monday Rick Gates says he committed crimes with Paul Manafort Manafort Stares Down Ex-Partner Gates Gates and Manafort, a tale awash in hidden millions and betrayal Rick Gates Testimony Leads to Tense Exchange Between Judge, Prosecutor 'Overruled, Overruled'; Mueller's Team Stumbles Even as Their Star Witness Shines ‘Don’t Speak When I Speak’; Mueller’s Team Gets Into it With Judge Ellis Special counsel's star witness testifies he committed crimes with Paul Manafort ‘Move It Along’: Manafort Judge Sets a Brisk Pace for Prosecutors Why Would Trump Throw Don Jr. Under The Legal Bus? The Double Damage of the President's Trump Tower Admission Trump Attorney Blames 'Bad Information' for Previous Inconsistent Statement How the Latest Trump Tower Tweet Damages the President’s Legal Defense President says meeting to get dirt on Clinton was legal; was admission problematic? President Trump Was Advised to Knock Off His Tweets About Trump Tower Meeting, Report Says Explainer: 2016 Trump Tower Meeting Andrew Napolitano explains why Trump Jr. could go to jail for meeting with Russians: ‘The crime is the agreement’ Trump may have just given a big boost to Mueller’s case against him 'Manhattan Madam' Kristin Davis set to testify before Mueller grand jury this week Mueller Gets `Firewall' for U.S.-Secrets Review in a Russia Case Investors to likely greet Mueller's findings with a yawn If Mueller subpoenas Trump to testify, legal fight would go to Supreme Court: Trump lawyer Trump team readying response to Mueller interview request: Report Trump decision on Mueller interview request expected in coming days Dershowitz: If Trump does Mueller interview, 'he may be walking into a perjury trap' Stone Cold: Mueller Wins Key Legal Challenge To His Authority As Special Counsel ‘Be brave’: Russian firm urges judge to nix Mueller indictment Rubio: 'Best thing' for Trump and country is to allow Mueller investigation to finish Fox News Judicial Analyst Blows Up Right-Wing Claim Mueller Should Investigate Hillary Clinton for Colluding with Russia ‘They Were All Lawyered Up and Rudy Giuliani’d Up’ Trump Can Be Prosecuted ‘as Soon as He Leaves Office,’ Says Conservative Pundit Jennifer Rubin
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Legal Fund Aiding Trump Associates Raised $180,000 in Second Quarter Trump legal defense fund raised more than $200,000, spent zero on legal work
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Rudy Giuliani Melts Down When Accused of Not Just Smoking ‘Premium Cigars’
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The Democrats vying to be NY's next attorney general are making a similar promise: to take on the president in the seat of his business empire
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The Ohio State Hires Biglaw Firm To Dot The ‘I’ On Urban Meyer Exposé claims NBC ignored Matt Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct Ford executive said to leave over 'accusations of inappropriate behavior' 12 Women File New Lawsuit Against USC and Gynecologist, Alleging Disturbing Abuse
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NASCAR CEO Brian France arrested on charges of DWI and possession of a controlled substance after running stop sign
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3 Unbelievable Employment Cases
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Illegal northern border crossings up 142 percent from last year
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Why Did North Carolina Suspend 13 Football Players?
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Judge Revokes Former US Attorney's Bond on Aggravated Stalking Charge Former U.S. Attorney Flees Police On Felony Stalking Charge, Threatens Suicide Before Arrest
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One chart shows how bad the shootings were in Chicago last weekend
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Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz describes "evil" voice in his head 'Kill Me': Prosecutors Just Released the Confession of Alleged Mass Shooter Nikolas Cruz ‘I Have Someone in My Head’: 5 Takeaways from Nikolas Cruz’s Massive Confession Transcript
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U.S. judge rules against Trump policy restricting transgender troops
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"Miracle": Bystander who shot gunman at Fla. peace rally a "hero," police say
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Cops Investigating After KKK Used Candy to Apparently Recruit Minors
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Christian Student Group Sues University of Iowa, Sparking Debate Over Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights
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‘All I Did Was Be Black’: Police Are Called on College Student Eating Lunch
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‘I Will Blow Your F------ House Up’: Man Not Pleased When Woman Denies Him Cops Say
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Judge: Courts can't jail people for fines without chance to plead poverty
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Tragedy Has Reinvigorated Better Call Saul
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Judges:

22 former Thomas clerks have landed Trump administration jobs or judicial nominations
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Brett Kavanaugh’s kindness and courtesy has no bearing on whether he should be confirmed to the Supreme Court GOP senators rave about Kavanaugh; Dems prepare to grill him Dems zero in on Kavanaugh ties to judge in harassment scandal On Kavanaugh, Republicans Neck-Deep in Hypocrisy Democrats' claims that Kavanaugh will destroy ObamaCare are nonsense What Brett Kavanaugh Really Thinks
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Bemoans a ‘Divisive’ Term, but Vows to Stick Around
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Is it 'Palate' or 'Palette'? Cleaning Up the Supreme Court's Messes
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Fourth Circuit Thumbs its Nose at Posner and His Fight for Pro Se Justice
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How to Goof Off
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DOJ Scorns Judge in AT&T-Time Warner Case
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Wall Street:

US futures post solid gains ahead of Disney, Papa John’s, Snap earnings
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FTSE 100 rallies, tracking upbeat Wall Street session
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Dow finishes session up 0.2%; S&P 500 climbs 0.4% S&P 500 finishes 0.7% from its all-time peak Nasdaq closes the day with a 0.6% gain
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Companies set to buy back $1 trillion worth of shares this year, and that should keep market afloat, Goldman says Stock market to get $1 trillion boost via buybacks, says Goldman
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One dirty word keeps popping up as Wall Street weighs the next market crash — and it should strike fear into the hearts of investors everywhere
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Warren Buffett’s favorite metric suggests some serious pain awaits investors
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Layoffs:

MA: Firm Cuts 85 Jobs In Burlington
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Politics:

President Trump Tweets 'Total Endorsement' for Controversial Kansas Candidate Kris Kobach Trump Backs Kris Kobach for Kansas Governor, Against Republican Advice This Was as Grave an Attack on Our Democracy as the Russian Meddling Alabama GOP chair: Kobach commission never followed up on voter record request Experts: Kobach Used Flawed Research
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Trump Loses a Battle in His War on Truth
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Poll: Trump's iron wall of defense
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Wasn't Just Russians Attacking US Democracy
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YouTube removes Alex Jones' page, following bans from Apple and Facebook WikiLeaks defends InfoWars as a 'state power critique' after it's banned from multiple platforms, including Facebook Big Tech turns on Big Conspiracy Twitter: Alex Jones and Infowars Not Breaking Any Rules Twitter: Alex Jones Can Stay
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Pride and prejudice? The Americans who fly the Confederate flag Confederate memorials turn up faster than they can be removed a year after Charlottesville
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Trump’s War with the Koch Brothers Makes No Sense
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OR: Police Charge the Anti-Fascist Protesters Antifa Protesters Confront Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens
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C-SPAN reports caller to the FBI after on-air threat to shoot CNN's Brian Stelter and Don Lemon
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Michelle Obama announces voter signup drive ahead of midterms
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Deval Patrick's private equity problem
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Charlottesville: One year later
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North Korea's Pompeo Problem Exposes Widening Rift Over Talks
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Jared Kushner Ordered Stories Deleted at His Newspaper
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W. Hollywood Votes to Remove Trump's Star
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Education:

College Financial Viability: The View Of Campus CFOs
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The top 10 colleges for financial aid
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The Nations With The Cheapest, Priciest College Tuition
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Travel:

American vs Delta vs United — we compared the 3 most popular airline credit cards and named a winner
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Student Debt:

Borrower beware: Soon it will be tougher to unload college loans
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Tennessee credit union to discharge loan debt for students College Network allegedly scammed
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Printing:

Triad custom printer files for bankruptcy under unusual circumstances

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Event Facilities:

Lender seeking new foreclosure action on The Falls Event Center in Elk Grove

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Pensions:

Calif. High Court Rules San Diego Pension Cuts on Ballot Illegally
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Accounting:

More companies are beating profit forecasts -- thanks to gimmicks
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Theatre:

After bankruptcy, Wall Street Theater battles creditors in court
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Economy:

Banks tighten credit-card standards, loosen terms for business loans: Fed survey
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94 Months Of Continuous U.S. Job Growth
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Job growth has never lasted this long before. Neither has weak wage growth
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New York Fed Staff Nowcast for 2018:Q3 stands at 2.6%
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Trump may not like Powell rate hike policy, but stocks give Fed chair high marks in first six months
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Goldman, Morgan Stanley raise GDP outlooks, and Goldman says jobless rate could be lowest since 1953
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The unemployment rate may be much lower, the nation’s former top statistician says
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One reason why wages aren’t rising faster: The absence of middle managers
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July 2018 Conference Board Employment Index Improvement Continues
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Jamie Dimon cautions the 10-year Treasury yield could hit 5%: 'It's a higher probability than most people think'
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‘Respect’ the bond market and what it’s trying to tell us, Fed's Bullard warns
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Stores, Factories Lead This Year’s Unexpected Hiring Boom
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The company behind Crock-Pot says Trump's trade war will cost it $100 million every year China’s stock market plunge will not force the country to give up in its trade war with US Beijing blasts 'double-faced' US and says it 'will not surrender' to 'trade blackmail' When It Comes to a Trade War , China Takes the Long View China’s Gas Tariffs Are a Permian-Size Problem for Oil Kudlow trash talks China calling it 'lousy investment' The US and India are squaring off on trade. That spells trouble for Modi Tariff Fallout: How It Affects US Companies 10-year, 30-year bond yields hit lowest in about 2 weeks as trade tensions linger Newell Brands stock plunges as tariffs could take a $100 million bite out of 2018 results Trump makes bizarre claim that tariffs will help pay down massive U.S. debt Trump's trade war is killing American blue jeans Trump Says Tariff Revenue Will Help Pay Down National Debt. Here's the Real Math. China Will Lose The Trade War With America, And That's Good For Its Citizens Alcoa Requests Reprieve From Trump’s Aluminum Tariffs California farmers say China’s new tariffs couple cripple industry Two Years Ago, Trump Didn't Know What LNG Was. Now His Tariffs Could Cripple The Industry Trade War Battles: Congress Reconsiders Its Role Trump might look like he's flailing on trade—but it's all going according to his trade czar's plan, which has been years in the making
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Tesla starts hiring for new $2 billion Shanghai plant
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Squeezed by Trump's visa changes, seasonal businesses say they face existential threat
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Gary Cohn: The Trump administration's $100 billion tax cut idea was 'killed in 30 seconds or less'
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Number of Unemployed for over 26 Weeks Since 1969
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Is there a skills gap in the South? : Mapping education and unemployment across the U.S.
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"The coming storm": Entering retirement broke and bankrupt Bankruptcy is hitting more older Americans, pointing to a retirement crisis in the making
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Here's how long $1 million lasts in retirement
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U.S. Corporate Tax Cuts Likely to Hit Other Countries’ Bottom Lines
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White women face a 'glass ceiling,' but women of color face a 'concrete ceiling'
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Trump's border wall could run overtime and over budget and perform below expectations: Watchdog August 6 2:19 PM Government watchdog questions whether border wall is worth it
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Living in a World the Crash Created
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If you’re over 40 and work, you’re in for some big surprises
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AAR: July Rail Carloads Up 3.5% YoY, Intermodal Up 6.9% YoY
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Looking Into What Americans Mean by "Working Class"
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The two biggest trends on Earth
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California Passed $15 An Hour Two Years Ago -- How's It Working?
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Visualizing How the 50 Largest U.S. Companies are Connected
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1 In 91 Chance Of US Recession Starting Before August 2019
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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How People Really Live
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Real Estate:

Framing Lumber Prices Fall from Record Highs, Up 20% Year-over-year
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There Aren't Enough Houses On The Market To Meet Demand
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HELOC Notes Found to be Nonnegotiable Under Florida Law
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Homeowners have more equity than ever but don't want to tap it
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Bruce Ratner deal signals decline of New York real estate families
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San Francisco's housing market is so out of control, 60% of tech workers say they can't afford homes
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In expensive cities, rents fall for the rich - but rise for the poor
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Affordable housing divides GOP hopefuls
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Americans say buying a home is most stressful event in modern life
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Wells Fargo admits to hundreds of mistaken foreclosures Wells Fargo CEO Sloan should be fired after wrongful foreclosures, Elizabeth Warren tweets How a Wells Fargo computer glitch may have sent 625 homeowners into foreclosure Wells Fargo: Apologies Don't Cut It This Time
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HSBC to pay $765m penalty over US mortgage probe
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Philly: Conshohocken Office Building Will Proceed After Bankruptcy Settlement
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Sale can’t erase mark of 666 from Jared Kushner
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The New Housing Crisis: Shut Out Of The Market
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California Wildfires Inflict Structural Damage
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Judge clears Mastro friend Michael Corliss of all wrongdoing
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The Leaning Tower of San Francisco
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Municipalities:

In Weary Post-Storm Puerto Rico , Medicaid Cutbacks Bode New Ills
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'This is human trafficking:' After Maria, Puerto Rico to move 3,200 inmates to Arizona
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Promesa Watch: Prepa, GDB Deals Move Coops Away from Risks
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Mammoth profits, revenue soar on contracts to restore Puerto Rice power
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Public bidding begins for Gary's 33 shuttered schools
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Lawyers - Maybe It's Not You, Maybe It's the Northeast
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Oil/Gas:

GulfMark gets competing offer from Harvey Gulf Houston energy-related co. with merger underway gets unsolicited proposal
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US sanctions on Iran are set to keep oil prices elevated, analysts say
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Trade War Scares Hedge Funds To Cut Oil Bets To Two-Year Low
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Fred. Olsen Energy edges closer to financial restructuring
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Ex-FourWinds CEO Stan Bates taken into custody; sentencing postponed
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Retailing:

National Stores files for bankruptcy protection Parent of U.S. discounter Fallas files bankruptcy, to close some stores National Stores, Inc. Initiates Lender and Supplier Supported Restructuring Discounter National Stores files for chapter 11 New Delaware Chapter 11 Filing – J&M Sales Inc. Summary: New Chapter 11 Filing - J&M Sales Inc./National Stores Inc.
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Mattress Firm explores bankruptcy to close stores, sources say Mattress Firm Considers Bankruptcy to Get Out of its Real Estate Scams
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Sad over losing Toys R Us, parents drive a surge in toy sales in the first half of the year
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Newell Brands misses sales estimates as Babies "R" Us bankruptcy weighs
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Toys 'R' Us Lenders May Swap $760 Million in Debt for Asian Unit
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The Long Goodbye for Toys 'R' Us in the U.S. Gets Drawn-Out Further as Details of a Rebrand that Never Happened Surface
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Toys ‘R’ Us job carnage drags on July U.S. payroll figures
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Gump's: RIP (Rest In the Past)
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Steinhoff announces Hemisphere lock-up agreement
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Retail defaults are at an all-time high - here are all the bankruptcies and liquidations so far in 2018
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Jeff Bezos' Parents Might Be Worth Billions
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Retail adds 66K jobs in July
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Food/Beverage:

Real Mex again files for bankruptcy protection Chevys, El Torito Restaurants Operator Files for Bankruptcy With Plan to Sell Company New Delaware Chapter 11 Filing – RM Holdco LLC Summary: New Chapter 11 Filing - RM Holdco LLC (Real Mex)
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Movie Theaters:

MoviePass slashes offering to three films a month MoviePass slims to 3 movies for $10 per month plan to survive MoviePass' CEO says he will focus on the 'occasional moviegoer' and has a new strategy for working with theaters MoviePass’s Latest Subscriber Restrictions Help Fuel Stock Rally
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Tech:

Facebook to banks: Give us your customer data, we’ll give you our users Facebook has been talking to banks about putting financial data into Messenger, and people are freaking out
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Cohn slams Facebook: 'Banks were more responsible citizens in ’08 than some of the social media companies are today' Gary Cohn calls Facebook worse than pre-crisis big banks
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Lobbyists Stopped 70 Bills Protecting Privacy
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How Rich Would Steve Jobs Be At Apple's $1 Trillion Market Cap? Billionaire News How Rich Would Steve Jobs Be At Apple's $1 Trillion Market Cap?

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Corporate Governance:

With Indra Nooyi out at PepsiCo, these are the only women CEOs left among S&P 500 companies
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DE Supreme Court Limits Application of Corwin Doctrine
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Autos:

Can non-bankrupt Reagor Dykes companies be sued? Judge rules on that issue Reagor-Dykes: All store locations open, operating with limited staff Monday Ford v. Reagor-Dykes case on hold for now, dealerships in limbo
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Annual Vehicle Sales: On Pace to decline slightly in 2018
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Trump's mileage rollback plan could leave automakers in costly limbo Carmakers React To Freezing Of Fuel Efficiency Standards
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Gambling:

Casinos Are Getting Nervous As Las Vegas Revenues Drop And Their Stocks Slump
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Debt Collection:

2nd Circuit: Debtor’s Failure to Exercise 1692g Rights Does Not Preclude FDCPA Claim
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Nutritional Supplements:

Debunking the billion-dollar multivitamin myth
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Art:

The two mystery paintings that sunk Sotheby's stock
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Transit:

Electric Mopeds Come to Brooklyn
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Tourism:

Hawaii Businesses Struggle With Uncertainty Of Volcano
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Too Many Tourists Ruining Destination Cities
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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 (20 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (6 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Older Americans’ Rising Bankruptcy Filings The number of seniors filing for bankruptcy is way up A Study Found Bankruptcy Soared Among Americans 65 And Older American Capitalism Can No Longer Afford to Let Workers Retire in Dignity Inadequate Income, Health Expenses Top Reasons for Retiree Bankruptcies
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Weekly Bankruptcy Claims Trading Activity
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Mediation:

Good Faith Negotiations at Mediation
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Efficiency or Fairness? ADR May Be the 21st Century Equivalent to the Rise of Equity
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Arbitration:

Blurred Lines: Rethinking the Issue of Consent by Non-Signatories
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Avoidance Actions:

Could the “Collapsing Doctrine” be Used to Avoid an Extraterritorial Transfer?
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For the Defense: State Courts Reject the Ponzi Scheme Presumptions in Fraudulent Transfer Actions
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Estoppel:

5th Cir. Holds Automatic Stay Violation Claim Against Mortgagee Barred by Judicial Estoppel
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Plan Confirmation:

Absolute(ly) No – A Reminder That When It Comes to Reorganization, Equity Comes Last
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Tax:

Have Unpaid Taxes? IRS Warns May Lose U.S. Passport
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It Looks Like Chickens Aren't Cash as Far as the IRS Is Concerned
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Jurisdiction:

6th Cir. Holds BK Debtor’s Challenge to Mortgage Not Barred by Rooker-Feldman
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Miscellaneous:

Three Provocative Business Bankruptcy Decisions of 2018
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Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law Update
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Links for Restructuring Professionals to Key Cases, Articles, and News Briefs for July 2018
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Appeals:

In Light of 'Lakeridge,' What's the Appropriate Standard of Review in Future Appeals?
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Insurance:

What to Talk About When You Talk About D&O Insurance
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Bankruptcy Remoteness:

Restricting Corporate Authority to File Bankruptcy
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Finance:

Demand for Second Lien Loans Growing in U.S.
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Climate:

California Facing Largest Fire in State History Death Toll Rises in Immense Carr Fire Wildfires Explode in Size Across California Trump blames environmental laws as California burns 14,000 Firefighters Battling 16 Major Blazes California's fires are creating another problem: Fleeing insurers 3 Men Arrested For Refusing To Evacuate Ranch Fire, Water Marijuana Plants Instead Trump wrong on California firefighting claim, experts say Trump's claims on California wildfires are inaccurate
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Hurricane Hector gains strength as it heads toward Hawaii
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Sweltering heat hitting both coasts
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Extreme Weather? Mother Nature Has Gone Mad
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As storms worsen, America's aging dams overflow
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Is Congress Headed for a Disaster Relief Showdown?
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'McRefugees' On The Rise Amid Summer Heat
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World at risk of heading toward irreversible 'hothouse' state
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Personal Finance:

Here's how much you have to save per paycheck to be a millionaire by 67
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This is the best predictor of how fast you’ll pay off credit card debt
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Cryptocurrency:

Some of investors’ worst fraud concerns around ICOs backed by Penn study
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Healthcare:

Operator of 22 freestanding ERs files for bankruptcy
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Trump Throws A Life Belt To People Who Buy Their Own Health Insurance Number of the Day: 44%
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Steve Cohen Is Spending Millions to Help Veterans. Why Are People Angry?
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Mass Torts:

Tests find asbestos in one brand of some crayons
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Sheldon Silver sentenced to jail, but asbestos system still invites shenanigans, attorney says
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Electricity:

Scana shares fall after judge backs temporary rate cut Judge allows rate cut to stand for failed nuclear plants
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Banking:

Six global banks should face terror-funding claims by U.S. military vets - judge
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Pharma:

Facing Pressure from Trump, Drugmakers Still Rack Up Big Profits
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Celebs:

NASCAR CEO Brian France May Have Just Cost His Family Hundreds Of Millions NASCAR CEO Reportedly Name-Dropped Trump During Arrest Process for DWI
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Coal:

Coal miners to see improved finances: BMI
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Asset Recovery:

Offshore? Yes. Off Limits? No. Asset Recovery in Paradise
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Asset Recovery 2018: Discussion
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UK:

North East England Tops UK Personal Insolvency Table For Tenth Successive Year
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‘Bankrupt’ Katie Price has spent £10,000 revamping her bedroom as boyfriend Kris Boyson moves in and refuses to sleep in bed she shared with her ex Katie Price faces bankruptcy court tomorrow over unpaid taxes Katie Price in bankruptcy court tomorrow to make last-ditch bid to stave off total financial collapse
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Former directors face questioning over Carillion's collapse
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Poundworld founder blames owners TPG for downfall
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Business confidence slumps
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Shock over UK services sector shrinkage
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London Traders Are Frogs Boiling in a Brexit Pot Britain Blames EU As It Circles the Drain England's Rust Belt Has No Brexit Regrets
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PIIGS:

Greece is finally set to exit bailouts this month, but a local told me the 'recovery' hides a brutal reality for most Greeks
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Banco Popular: new report says alternatives to rescue were worse
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Canada:

Canada overcomes Trump's metals tariffs with record exports
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Brazil:

Brazil’s banks, profitable whatever the economic weather - The economy is sluggish, but banks are coining it
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India:

Sashakt will not solve the NPA problem
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Air India July salary delay
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Failing to get loan waver, two debt-ridden farmers commit suicide
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Syndicate Bank's Q1 net loss widens to Rs 12.81 bn on rise of bad loans
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India wants the UK to help it catch a fugitive billionaire
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Austria:

Austrian produce wholesaler declared bankrupt
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MENA:

U.S. to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran, Targeting Economy Trump Restores Iran Sanctions as Rouhani Feels Economic Pressure Trump reimposes sanctions on Iran, banning imports of pistachios and carpets US aims to crush Iran oil sector in next wave of sanctions Here’s How New U.S. Sanctions Will Affect Iran Trump drops the sanctions hammer on Iran — but Putin could come to Tehran's rescue Oil prices spike ahead of US sanctions on Iran Trump Reimposes All Iran Nuclear Sanctions EU acts to protect firms from Donald Trump's sanctions against Iran Renewed sanctions will hurt Iran's economy, but U.S. benefits uncertain What's the Real Goal Behind Trump’s Iran Sanctions?
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Saudi Arabia appeared to threaten Canada with a 9/11-style attack in a feud over human rights Saudi Arabia suspends flights to Canada in ongoing feud over human-rights arrests Saudi Arabia is pulling thousands of students from Canada in an escalating human rights feud Twitter and the Saudi-Canadian Crisis
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Saudi coalition in Yemen working with al-Qaeda
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UAE's Stanford Marine creditors in talks about sale of business -sources
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Finland:

New Linda Line catamaran arrival stalled by bankruptcy proceedings says CEO
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Bangladesh:

Has the Bankruptcy Act, 1997 lived up to its expectation?
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Australia:

Embattled charity FSG Australia enters liquidation owing $25 million
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