Bankruptcy Blogs

5 Things Student Loan Lawyers Ask Borrowers Who File for Bankruptcy

01/06/14

It’s nearly impossible to cancel your student loan debt in bankruptcy.

Fewer than 1,000 people try each year. Those who do are required to file a lawsuit against their lenders and then convince a bankruptcy judge that they’re so poor there’s no hope of ever repaying the loans.

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How Community Banks Can Save Themselves

01/06/14

Banking is increasingly a data-driven business. By creating a shared data and analytics utility, community banks could glean valuable insights on their business currently available only to large institutions.

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Fed's Muddled Message Hinders Economic Growth

01/06/14

The Federal Reserve should allow market participants to make their own bets on what the central bank will do and when it will do it.

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The Daily Docket: LightSquared Asks Judge to Reject Sale Plan

01/06/14

Phil Falcone and LightSquared urged a bankruptcy judge to reject a plan to sell the company’s wireless spectrum assets to Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network Corp., a deal they say is inferior to LightSquared’s proposal to reorganize on its own. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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The Daily Docket: LightSquared Asks Judge to Reject Sale Plan

01/06/14

Phil Falcone and LightSquared urged a bankruptcy judge to reject a plan to sell the company’s wireless spectrum assets to Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network Corp., a deal they say is inferior to LightSquared’s proposal to reorganize on its own. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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Dick Bove on Why Wall Street Should Be Allowed to Embrace Risk

01/06/14

The United States is the most successful political, economic, and financial enterprise the globe has ever seen. It has this position because it has always embraced risk.

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JPM Set to Kick Off 2014 with Another Big Settlement; SEC Enforcer to Exit

01/06/14

Receiving Wide Coverage ...

JPM Madoff Settlement: New year; same story for JPMorgan Chase. Anonymice are telling their favorite news outlets the big bank is close to nearing another settlement with federal regulators. This one involves allegations that JPM ignored signs about Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme. The settlement is expected to include just over $2 billion in fines, paid out to victims of the Madoff fraud, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and...

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