Bankruptcy Blogs

Stroock, Kirkland Bunk Up Post-Storm

11/06/12
Rachel Feintzeig
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP’s downtown Manhattan office sustained damage from superstorm Sandy that could take weeks to repair.

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2013 Boulder Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making

11/06/12

My general level of curmudgeonalityTM usually makes me reticent to repost notices about conferences and such. These sorts of blog posts strike me as useful as having me walk down the street with a sandwich board advertising the conference.

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Complex Rules Are Bad Rules

11/06/12

Complex rules can be bent to special interests, and invite gaming and unfairness. An example is the exclusion of credit cards that don't impose "finance charges" from a great many requirements.

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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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While You Wait

11/06/12

As somebody who has dabled in empirical legal studies, and recently noted the tendency among academics and policymakers to ignore inconvient data, I'm quite eager to see how the models hold up.

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State Payday Lending News Part II: Oregon Warns Tribal Payday Lenders to Back Off

11/06/12

A little something more to chew on while you are chewing off your fingernails over tonight’s election news. As reported on Turtle Talk this morning, Oregon and Washington are none too pleased about tribal payday lenders making loans to citizens of their state, in contravention of their state usury laws.

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State Payday Lending News Part I: New Mexico Court Finds FastBucks Loans to be Unconscionable

11/06/12

A little something to chew on while you are chewing off your fingernails over tonight’s election news. The New Mexico Attorney General’s office has sued Fastbucks for providing unconscionable loans to New Mexico citizens, both under the common law unconscionability doctrine and the state’s Unfair Practices Act’s unconscionability provision.

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