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Best Wishes to Senator-Elect Warren

11/08/12

Many congratulations to Elizabeth Warren on her election to the U.S. Senate. Warren was a co-founder of the Credit Slips blog and contributed until she took up her responsibilities with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To many of the blog's contributors, she is a teacher, a collaborator, a co-author, and a friend. Best wishes to her as she begins this new adventure in her life.

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Pesky holdouts, old-timey edition. (Or, more on why Argentina matters.)

11/08/12

"[T]he principal beneficiaries of the litigation were an unscrupulous body of commercial pirates, who had purchased ... bonds at a mere nominal price..."

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Daniel Schwarcz on the Lack of Transparency in Insurance Consumer Protection

11/07/12
Back in July of 2011, we were fortunately to have Dan Schwarcz guest blog for us.
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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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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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Welcome to Mark Weidemaier

11/05/12

Credit Slips is pleased to welcome Professor Mark Weidemaier of the University of North Carolina as a guest blogger. Weidemaier is developing an impressive and important body of scholarship on international financial contracts, public international law, and international arbitration.

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