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Receiving Wide Coverage ... Save Hamilton: Ben Bernanke has joined the growing chorus of those who say the Treasury should bump Andrew Jackson from his perch on the $20 to make way for the first woman on U.S. currency Â-- and leave Alexander Hamilton be on the $10. The former Fed chief writes on his blog that he's "appalled" by the plan to push aside Hamilton (who Bernanke calls "without doubt the best and most foresightedÂ...

More than a decade after his Chicago hospital collapsed into bankruptcy, Peter Rogan faces a reckoning.

Mr. Rogan last week pleaded not guilty to criminal charges accusing him of trying to evade creditors from collecting nearly $200 million in legal judgments against him in connection with the fraud that brought down Edgewater Hospital and Medical Center.

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Wall Street Journal Jimmy Lee, the JPMorgan Chase vice chairman who unexpectedly died last week, will be "irreplaceable," according to CEO Jamie Dimon. Lee was responsible for being the point man to JPMorgan's top corporate clients; his duties will be farmed out to several executives. One example of Lee's importance: when General Electric earlier this year decided to sell off its GE Capital banking unit, Dimon and Lee were both summoned to a GE conference roomÂ...

The bankruptcy code requires a chapter 13 debtor to file a chapter 13 plan. The chapter 13 debtor has the exclusive right to file a plan as chapter 13 is a voluntary proceeding.