Bankruptcy Blogs

Energy Future Holdings Corp. faced criticism from creditors Tuesday on its bankruptcy-exit plan. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

Regulators need to be able to impose tough requirements on foreign banks with U.S. units in order to safeguard the domestic financial system from turbulence abroad. Sen. Richard Shelby's proposal to raise the asset threshold for systemically important banks would put that ability in jeopardy.

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The Old College Try: Hillary Clinton unveiled her plan to deal with the problem of skyrocketing student debt. Clinton's plan would provide about $175 billion in grants and loans to states that guarantee students wouldn't have to take out loans to cover tuition.

Although her plan's goal is to help families pay for college without taking out loans, it would require families to make a "realistic" contribution to tuition and students would also...

The owner of former mail-order music giant Columbia House filed for bankruptcy to sell off the remains of its business. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

Wall Street Journal

Activist investors have been getting a little help from their new friends at mutual funds. There was once a time when mutual funds wouldn't even pick up the phone when activists called; they worried that even associating with activists would jeopardize their access to management at their portfolio companies. ...