The business has thrived during the downturn, clearing stock from stores set for closure, winning advisory fees on the management of ailing chains, trading in the debt of distressed companies and restructuring them for sale.
But it badly hampered the work of family-planning groups overseas, forcing clinic closures, reduced services and fee increases.
President Barack Obama's proposed Pentagon budget for the 2014 fiscal year asks Congress to take a series of politically difficult steps, including starting a new round of U.S. base closure proceedings, increasing healthcare fees for military retirees and slowing military pay increases.
The Spanish have also raised the possibility of a €50 crossing fee and the closure of Spanish air space to flights bound for Gibraltar.
Earlier on Thursday, the BBC's director general Tony Hall also explicitly linked the closure with the 2010 licence fee settlement, which cut BBC funding by 16% in real terms and led to former director general Mark Thompson's £700m Delivering Quality First cost-saving drive.
Law centres are increasingly turning away clients whose claims are no longer supported by legal aid or introducing fees to avoid closure.
And all around him, the insidious stain of austerity creeps across the country, manifesting in the bedroom tax, rising tuition fees and the closure of public services that vulnerable people depend on.
There have also been complaints about sharp increases in school fees and the closure of the Westminster School in Dubai after the country's school regulator would not raise a cap on private school tuition.
Students at the University of Hull are demanding a refund of their £9,000-a-year fees over the closure of a campus that has left staff "utterly demoralised" and hundreds of undergraduates in "open revolt".
He also presided over the elimination of a projected $1.2 1.5 billion deficit through a combination of spending cuts, increased fees, and the closure of corporate tax loopholes.
