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Some 68% of all Americans are overweight, and obesity has almost doubled in the last couple of decades worldwide.

We knew things are worse than presented... But this much worse? And in Chicago of all places - the city of (aggressively enforced) spin?

For our French speaking readers, this makes it all too clear: "Selon plusieurs sources contactées par La Tribune, l'agence de notation Standard & Poor's pourrait préparer la France à la perte de son "triple A"."

One of the major problems with having relatively few restructuring advisors and a whole slew of newly bankrupt companies, is that sooner or later advisors will trip over their own feet as previously undisclosed conflicts of interest come to light. This is exactly what may soon force Lazard to forfeit over $16 million in revenue it had hoped to generate by advising bankrupt Tribune in its chapter 11 plight.