News Topic: Blog Stuff

Credit Slips bloggers Jean Braucher and Melissa Jacoby  have been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy . ... Read full article

Many congratulations to Elizabeth Warren on her election to the U.S. Senate. Warren was a co-founder of the Credit Slips blog and contributed until she took up her responsibilities with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To many of the blog's ... Read full article

Professor John Pottow is coming back to Credit Slips as one of our "Occasional" bloggers. Pottow was one of the blog's founding members, and it is fantastic that he is able to rejoin us. He always seems to find interesting stories or ... Read full article

We are pleased to welcome Professor Amy Jean Schmitz of the University of Colorado as a guest blogger. She has done a lot of work in the area of consumer contracting and consumer arbitration. Welcome, Amy, to Credit Slips . ... Read full article

On behalf of all the regular Credit Slips bloggers, I wanted to thank Professor Barry Scholnick for joining us this week and offering a "north of the border" perspective on consumer bankruptcy issues. It was especially insightful to think about ... Read full article

Back at the dawn of Credit Slips , we were privileged to have Regular Pottow. For the uninitiated, I am of course referring to Professor John A.E. Pottow of the University of Michigan Law School. Due to the press of other responsibilities, John had to ... Read full article

At the Boulder Conference of Consumer Financial Decision Making , Professor Barry Scholnick of the University of Alberta presented some fantastic research about the influence of neighbors on the decision to file bankruptcy. Scholnick's findings with ... Read full article

Congratulations to Credit Slips 's Adam Levitin who was just named to the Consumer Advisory Board for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. ... Read full article

As regular Credit Slips readers know, our own Stephen Lubben has a Dealbook column over at this place called The New York Times . Now comes word that University of Colorado law professor Vic Fleischer has started a column at Dealbook on tax matters. ... Read full article

Ezra Klein has joined the melee over the Obama Administration's housing policy failure with an apologia for the Administration.  Klein argues:  The right question on housing, then, is not whether the administration’s policies proved insufficient. ... Read full article

Today is the si ... Read full article

Tomorrow two Slips members -- Adam and I -- journey to the House of Representatives. Ok, for Adam this is a journey to the crosswalk, but nonetheless ... ... Read full article

Last week, Credit Slips was fortunate to have the thoughtful insights of Bill Maurer and Stevie Rea on payments systems. ... Read full article

What does it mean that the two most common forms of comment spam on this blog are people trying to sell sunglasses or handbags? ... Read full article

Credit Slips welcomes Bill Maurer as a guest blogger this week. Bill is NOT a lawyer! Isn't that great? (We all need an occasional break from lawyers, even those of us who are lawyers.) ... Read full article

Credit Slips has been fortunate to have my Georgetown colleague Philomila Tsoukala as a guest blogger the past couple weeks. The mainstream US media press coverage of the Greek financial crisis has focused on the dynamic between the Greek government and ... Read full article

On behalf of Credit Slips , I wanted to welcome Professor Philo Tsoukala from the Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Tsoukala will be joining as a guest blogger, and she will be commenting especially on the Greek debt situation and how the debt ... Read full article

Given what a small part of the web we are, it seemed a little melodramatic for Credit Slips to go dark over the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). It did seem appropriate at least to add my own voice to the opposition. ... Read full article