The student loan issue is increasingly coming the front-burner, both domestically and abroad . I haven't blogged about it before (and it's worth noting how little scholarship there is on student loans compared with say mortgages or credit ... Read full article
As many Credit Slips readers will know, so-called "body attachments" allow a creditor to haul a judgment debtor into state court if the debtor fails to respond to court summonses to answer questions about the debtor's financial affairs. It ... Read full article
The Creditors' and Debtors' Rights section of the Association of American Law Schools invites paper proposals for the January 2013 conference program. The program theme is "The Great Deleveraging: Bankruptcy after the Crisis, Formal and ... Read full article
I'm having trouble getting excited over RadLAX going before SCOTUS. ... Read full article
Here's a plug for a conference on mobile payments that the FTC is hosting next week. It will be webcast live. The agenda is here . I'm one of the speakers. ... Read full article
Former guest slipster Ronald Mann has a nice post up at SCOTUSblog about RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. ... Read full article
So there is a bit a kerfuffle going on between Luigi Zingales and Brad DeLong . ... Read full article
A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of giving priority to an Article 9 financing statement only from the date on which the debtor actually authorizes the filing, and a proposed official comment contrary to this position . My colleague Lissa ... Read full article
Those of us struggling with the issues raised by payday and title loans are consistently told to take morality out of the equation when considering these loans. ... Read full article
Two weeks in a row, the Haggler column in the New York Times focused on cramming , one of the most damning and profitable scams in the consumer world. Cramming is tacking unrequested services onto land line bills and now cell phone bills, such as ... Read full article
Last week, Credit Slips was fortunate to have the thoughtful insights of Bill Maurer and Stevie Rea on payments systems. ... Read full article
While we’ve been blogging, Stevie has begun his dissertation fieldwork in Korea. He emailed Bill the other day: “Yesterday I opened a bank account here in Seoul, and conducted the entire interaction in Korean. For some reason, I don't get an ATM ... Read full article
Argentina and its most intransigent creditors are duking it out again (or still) in the Second Circuit, reviving the crazy battle over the meaning and import of the pari passu (equal treatment) clause in sovereign debt contracts. For the small but ... Read full article
This is Adam Levitin posting for Anna Gelpern. Only the awful illiterative post title is mine. Here's Anna: ... Read full article
I thought so. This is actually the key to my room from a recent business trip. I guess the symbolism is that this is also the key to life, right? It is also another example of how credit card comanies have inflitrated college campuses. ... Read full article
Sticker in San Francisco: "Of course it's cash-only, it's the Mission." Overheard: "Oooh, yeah, no, we don't take cards. Because the coffee is, like, local?" (both items courtesy Lana Swartz ) ... Read full article
What does it mean that the two most common forms of comment spam on this blog are people trying to sell sunglasses or handbags? ... Read full article
Much has been written about the inherent riskiness of cash. It is dangerous because it can be lost, stolen, eaten, destroyed, etc. It is dangerous because it is difficult to track, thereby helping to facilitate crime. Many a potboiler plot hinges on a ... Read full article
