Blog Stuff

Many Thanks to Amy Schmitz

12/07/12

On behalf of everyone at Credit Slips, I want to thank Professor Amy Schmitz for joining us as a guest blogger. Her posts included the song Fine Print Foils lamenting the legal traps laid for everyday households in many a consumer contract.

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The Slips Go to College

11/20/12

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

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Best Wishes to Senator-Elect Warren

11/08/12

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 contributors, she is a teacher, a collaborator, a co-author, and a friend. Best wishes to her as she begins this new adventure in her life.

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Another Returnee to the Warm Embrace That Is Credit Slips

11/06/12

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 perspectives that others have missed about the world of debt and bankruptcy.

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Welcome to Amy Jean Schmitz

10/07/12

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.

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Thank You, Barry Scholnick

10/06/12

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 what centralization would mean for data availability and those of us who believe in empirically driven policy making.

Thank you, Barry. Come back again some time.

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Guest Pottow

10/04/12

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 drop out of the blog, but we always had hoped he would be able to spend time with us again.

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Welcoming Barry Scholnick

09/30/12

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 Canadian data parallel similar, albeit older, findings in the United States.

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Levitin on the Board

09/14/12

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

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Fleischer Does a Lubben

09/06/12

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.

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