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A broker puts on his tie after arriving June 18, 2012, at the Stock Exchange in Madrid. (Associated Press)

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Michael, left, and Patricia Jackson sift through bank documents in their home Saturday, June 16, 2012, in Marietta, Ga. On a suburban cul-de-sac northwest of Atlanta, the Jacksons are struggling to keep a house worth $100,000 less than they owe. Their voices and those of many others tell the story of a country that, for all the economic turmoil of the past few years, continues to believe things will get better. But until it does, families are trying to hang on to what they've got left. The Great Recession claimed nearly 40 percent of Americans' wealth, the Federal Reserve reported last week. The new figures, showing Americans' net worth has plunged back to what it was in 1992, left economists shuddering. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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This Friday, June 15, 2012 photo shows Kathy Miller, president of Total Event Resources, at her offices in Schaumburg, Ill. In 2008, her events planning company was having its best year ever. She and her husband had set aside money to put their two sons through college, with enough left in savings for "a very nice life" in the Chicago suburb. Then the financial crisis sent the stock market tumbling and the corporate customers who had kept Miller's company busy, stopped calling. When the government reported that the Great Recession claimed nearly 40 percent of Americans' wealth, the figure alarmed economists. But for families across the country, the numbers merely confirm that they are not alone. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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Mark Zuckerberg (center), Facebook founder, chairman and CEO, applauds at the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market on May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (Associated Press/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla)

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**FILE** Rajat Gupta arrives June 12, 2012, at court in New York. Gupta was charged with passing secrets he learned from Goldman's board in fall 2008 to a billionaire hedge fund founder who used the information to make millions of dollars. (Associated Press)

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Kevin Costner arrives June 14, 2012, at a federal courthouse in New Orleans for the trial for Stephen Baldwin's lawsuit against Costner over their multimillion dollar business dispute in the aftermath of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawsuit accuses Costner and Smith of duping Baldwin and friend Spyridon Contogouris over their investments in an oil cleanup device that BP used after the spill. (Associated Press)

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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner confers frequently with European leaders, but the U.S. has limited leverage in the upcoming G-20 summit. (Associated Press)

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R. Allen Stanford, once considered one of the wealthiest people in the U.S. with a financial empire that spanned the Americas, was convicted on charges he bilked investors out of more than $7 billion. He received a 110-year sentence. (Associated Press)

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Elvis Presley's Graceland estate, which opened to the public 30 years ago, expects to welcome its 18 millionth visitor soon. (Associated Press)

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LaRon Landry is back with the New York Jets after spending most of the offseason recovering on his own from an Achilles injury that cut short his season a year ago with the Redskins. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, FIle)