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What a Wonder-ful World

09/24/13
Associated Press

After Hostess Brands’ bankruptcy liquidation, Twinkies made their return to store shelves this summer.

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The Daily Docket: Energy Future, Creditors Negotiate Bankruptcy

09/23/13

Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s creditors signed confidentiality agreements to look at financial information that isn’t public, a step toward bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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Texas Coin Maker for Fed-Estranged Files for Bankruptcy

09/20/13

A Dallas mint that makes commemorative coins and “alternative” money for people who are wary of the U.S. dollar has run into problems with its own finances.

The 25-worker Mulligan Mint Inc.—which has the power to create a “complementary currency system that can fill in the blanks where the U.S. dollar lets us down,” according to its president—has filed for bankruptcy after officials in June discovered that part of a $1.4 million shipment of silver was missing.

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The Broke and the Beautiful: 50 Dollars Edition

09/20/13

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, rapper DMX is down to his last $50 in cash. Also, Robin Williams is in some financial distress, and Young Buck’s bankruptcy plan was cleared by a federal watchdog.

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The Daily Docket: Detroit Resident Speak out to Bankruptcy Judge

09/20/13

The Wall Street Journal has more on Detroit residents speaking out to a bankruptcy judge on their fears of not getting full pensions.

Read more about the bankruptcy filing of golf-course retirement community Devonshire in Daily Bankruptcy Review.

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Rapper DMX Running Low on Cash

09/19/13
Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images
DMX performs onstage at the 2009 VH1 Hip Hop Honors at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sept.
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The Daily Docket: Trustee Claims Corzine Masterminded Scheme

09/19/13
Susan Walsh/Associated Press
In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, file photo, former MF Global Holdings Ltd.
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VFX Creator Gravity Files for Bankruptcy

09/18/13

Gravity, whose computer animation and digital effects appear in Ford and Got Milk? ads, filed for Chapter 11 protection Tuesday to avoid eviction from its Madison Avenue office.

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The Daily Docket: Ecotality Enters Bankruptcy

09/18/13
Greg Gilbert/Associated Press
In this June 9, 2011, file photo, Heidi Bray, of Olympia, Wash.
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