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Over at VoxEU, economists Daniel Aronson and Eric French have a discussion about the their research of the effects of a minimum wage hike.

It’s National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW)!   Federal, state, local, and nonprofit consumer protection agencies and organizations are making extra efforts to promote consumer awareness. 

First I have to get out of my system thoughts of Tom Lehrer’s song, National Brotherhood Week:

                Step up and shake the hand/Of someone you can’t stand . . .

Apparently part of the bank flaks' talking points regarding the foreclosure reviews is that to the extent homeowners harmed by wrongful foreclosures, they were actually drug dealers. The message: we didn't foreclose on anyone who didn't deserve it. We were just foreclosing on some scumbags and doing you all a favor by getting the meth lab out of the neighborhood before it blew up. We're part of the war on drugs. 

Mark makes an immensely important point in his post on the latest in NML v. Argentina; it merits emphasis and perhaps an extension. The fact that a U.S.

One major benefit of being a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute is a nice rundown of daily bankruptcy-related headlines delivered by email daily. Today's list included a combination of headlines that made me smile ...

"Girls Gone Wild Files for Bankruptcy" was an interesting enough headline, but immediately following it was this: "Grupo Bimbo Wins Hostess Beefsteak Auction." Nice.