Credit Slips now has a Twitter feed. You can find us @CreditSlips on Twitter (as well as from the button to the right). We'll be trying to put our posts up there as well as retweeting from the Credit Slips authors. We also have added a button that ... Read full article
For the last 18 months, I've served as the California Monitor for the National Mortgage Settlement at the request of California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris. Disclaimer: This post does not necessarily represent the views of the CA AG or CA DOJ. ... Read full article
As Prof. Nathalie Martin noted, the ABI has an upcoming conference on student loans . For those more interested in policy than straight up bankruptcy law, the St. Louis Federal Reserve will host a one day conference on the state of student loans in ... Read full article
The American Banker's lead article today is about how the Qualified Mortgage (QM) concept is really an enactment of the "plain vanilla" mortgage provision that the White House had unsuccessfully pushed to have included in what become the ... Read full article
On Friday, November 15, 2013, the American Bankruptcy Institute will hold a conference in its Alexandria Virginia Offices, and by webinar, entitled You Can’t Discharge Student Loans in Bankruptcy – Or Can You ? The conference will run from 9:30 a. m. ... Read full article
Questions about OLA after SPE (or SPOE if you prefer), over at Dealb%k . ... Read full article
I've been corresponding with an analyst in a country that still jails people for unpaid general debts. ... Read full article
Whatever force academics have in public debate comes not from a claim that we are somehow smarter than others but because we can claim the persuasive force of having opinions that have not been purchased by others. Over the years, I have watched the line ... Read full article
West Publishing will soon release the third edition of Tabb's Law of Bankruptcy authored by my colleague, Charles Tabb . This treatise is moving over to West from Foundation Press. The expected release date is November 14. In my opinion, Charles has ... Read full article
Totally out of my area of expertise, but I wanted to draw Slips readers' attention to a case discussed in this morning's NY Times , being handled by former guest blogger Ronald Mann , among others. ... Read full article
A s a special treat for the ... Read full article
Federal bankruptcy law defers to the states on a critical issue: what is the basic minimum income and property that debtors need not surrender to creditors. Four states protect 100% of workers' wages, while 21 states allow creditors to garnish ... Read full article
A city in bank ... Read full article
I'm quite sure China's plea to “ ensure the safety of the Chinese investments ” will bring certain members of of the House to their senses. ... Read full article
From the October 7 Financial Times, there's this opinion piece by Elliott's Jay Newman. The gist of it is that, for more than a decade, Elliott has been uber-reasonable in trying to negotiate with Argentina, but that the country has simply ... Read full article
Snaking up a mountain road toward our favorite trailhead yesterday, Stewart and I realized we’d face some moral dilemmas when we arrived. Assuming we could get into the National Forest at all, would we pay the fee, even though no one would fine us if we ... Read full article
To the surprise of nobody, the Supreme Court rejected Argentina's June 2013 request to review the Second Circuit's October 2012 decision that it violated the pari passu clause in its defaulted bonds. The court gave no reason, which is normal. ... Read full article
