Bankruptcy Blogs

Cordray Cares More about Politics Than Consumers

01/23/12

A full term at the CFPB would run for five years, until 2017. Keep your eyes peeled. He's a serial office seeker who'll run long before that.

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How Long Will the Robo-Signing Settlement Be 'Imminent'?

01/23/12

My guess is that Shaun Donovan and Tim Geithner are burning the midnight oil and firing up the afterburners in attempts to wrap this agreement up by Tuesday's State of the Union address.

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The Daily Docket: JeffCo to Make Smaller Bondholder Payments

01/23/12

Empowered by a recent court ruling, Jefferson County, Ala., leaders are planning to wield their bankruptcy case privileges to squeeze sewer system bondholders who—for nearly half a decade—have squeezed them. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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How to Address Apparent Racial Disparity in the Consumer Bankruptcy System

01/21/12

The article discussed in the N.Y. Times story today is heavily empirical. It is also deliberately light on the prescriptive.

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Tax Refund Loans … Bye, Bye ! … and Good Riddance !

01/21/12

Republic Bank and Trust Company of Louisville, Kentucky is the final bank in the country to be forced to eliminate their super high interest tax refund loans that prey on the financially strapped.  The bank, in conjunction with Jackson Hewitt tax service,  have conspired for years to convince needy tax filers to pay up to [...]

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Race and Chapter 13

01/21/12

As Adam noted in his kind post, the New York Times today featured our study, "Race, Attorney Influence, and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice." My co-authors are Credit Slips blogger Jean Braucher, a law professor at the University of Arizona, and Dov Cohen, a professor at the University of Illinois who holds a cross appointment in psychology and law. And, we all express many thanks to the NYT reporter, Tara Siegel Bernard, who spent a lot of time slogging through the statistics and legal intricacies in our study.

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Kudos to Jean Braucher and Bob Lawless!

01/21/12

A new study by Credit Slips own Jean Braucher and Bob Lawless (with Dov Cohen) on race and bankruptcy filings received very prominent and well-deserved page A1 coverage in the New York Times.  It's a fabulous study, and it's wonderful to see it getting such great media attention. 

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