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Caterpillar Planning $4.5 Billion Four-Part Debt Sale
Caterpillar's planned buyout of Bucyrus cleared a US antitrust review by the Department of Justice last Friday. Including the assumption of debt, the deal has a price tag of $8.6 billion. Moody's said it expects the balance of acquisition funding to
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:45A
Worried about college loans and potential bankruptcy
By Karin Price Mueller/The Star-Ledger Q. I love my stepkids, who are taking out educational loans for college. I fear their mother may have to file for bankruptcy in the next two years. Is there a way their father and I can help buffer them from the
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:45A
Banks Should Stick to Loans, Deposits: Fed's Hoenig
In another change, lenders financing shadow banks would be allowed to liquidate mortgage debt used as short-term collateral in the event of default, rolling back a change in a 2005 bankruptcy law, Hoenig said. The changes would “increase the stability
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:44A
Ian Gordon: Gold Stocks Offer Protection from Financial Storm
Can you give us an idea of what you think people should do with their financial investments now in order to protect their assets? What changes do you see, and what do you think now in light of what's happened since January? Ian Gordon: I think things
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:44A
Prosecutors Build Case Against O'Fallon ex-CIA Employee
Mr. Risen's testimony, like that of any other citizen in his situation, should therefore be admitted to permit the jury to carry out its truth-seeking function,” prosecutors from the Department of Justice and the Eastern District of Virginia wrote in a
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:44A
Supreme Court Orders California To Reduce its Prison Population
Since 1990, California has faced numerous lawsuits related to prison medical care and overcrowding. In 2009, a federal three-judge panel ruled that California's prisons were so overcrowded that they violated constitutional standards for medical and
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:43A
US court orders California prisoner release
Justice Anthony Kennedy said for the court majority that the medical and mental health care provided by California's prisons had fallen below the standard of decency required by the US Constitution. Kennedy cited suicidal inmates being held for
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:43A
Publication Advisory: New NIJ Studies Examine Police Use Of Force
The panel, selected in collaboration with the College of American Pathologists, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Association of Medical Examiners, reviewed nearly 300 cases to determine whether CEDs contributed to or
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:43A
Publication Advisory: New NIJ Studies Examine Police Use Of Force
The panel, selected in collaboration with the College of American Pathologists, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Association of Medical Examiners, reviewed nearly 300 cases to determine whether CEDs contributed to or
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:43A
Special Report: Solar plane is European 'dreambird'
It was launched with a dinner yesterday attended by Connie Hedegaard and Viviane Reding, EU commissioners for climate action and justice respectively. Pilot and co-founder Bertrand Piccard told the gathering: "Politicians need the same pioneering
Updated: 05/24/2011 11:42A
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