Bankruptcy Blogs

If regulators have the will and the authority to resolve "too big to fail," now is the time to act. The prospect of several more years without resolution is terrifying.

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, “Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey is in financial turmoil, and actor Kevin Costner is fighting a revenue dispute in bankruptcy court. Also, the NCAA is being accused on closing the books on an investigation too soon.

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BOJ Goes for Broke: ...Or, perhaps, will go broke trying. Haruhiko Kuroda, the newly installed Bank of Japan governor, unveiled a package of easy-money policies Thursday that might make even Ben Bernanke blush. "This is an entirely new dimension of monetary easing, both in terms of quantity and quality," Kuroda said. "Our stance is to take all the policy measures imaginable at this point to achieve the 2% [inflation] target in two...

U.S. Trustee Tracy Hope Davis, a federal bankruptcy monitor, is railing against Residential Capital LLC’s bid to pay bonuses to top employees, saying the company must do more to prove some of the bonuses comply with the Bankruptcy Code. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

FHFA's decision to sell foreclosures in bulk is hindering the rising Hispanic consumer segment, along with other first-time buyers, from driving a healthy housing rebound.