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Drowning in debt and low on savings? This calculator could help ease your money woes.
With failures down, the FDIC chief should focus on getting banks off its problem list and back to building a prosperous economy.
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The failure rate, and the loss-given-failure rate, have been steadily declining for over a year.
The failure rate, and the loss-given-failure rate, have been steadily declining for over a year.
Draft regulations on the qualified residential mortgage exemption risk pushing worthy homeowners out of the market.
Draft regulations implementing the Dodd-Frank Act's risk retention requirements for residential mortgages, in their current form, run a very serious risk of having a negative impact on those who strive to become safe and sustainable homeowners.
The extent of D&O insurance coverage was the subject of an important decision by the Second Circuit in MBIA Inc. v. Federal Ins. Co., et al. decided on July 1, 2011. 
I interviewed a married couple wanted to file joint Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Each spouse had separate credit cards and no joint unsecured debt. They have assets owed jointly free and clear of debt. My first thought was that their joint...
School-bus operator USA United Fleet Inc.—one of the biggest providers of transportation for New York City’s public-school children—turned to bankruptcy court for a little breathing room after hitting a series of financial potholes.
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Recently released data show that consumer bankruptcy filings in the first half of 2011 fell by eight percent compared with the first half of 2010.
In a decision that likely will please secured lenders and make a debtor think twice before proposing a plan that prohibits credit bidding, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in River Road Hotel Partners, LLC v.
Freddie Mac is seeking to put the brakes on a recently proposed $1.6 billion settlement involving the bankruptcy estate of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.
  One lesson learned from technology is this: technology is all about fewer people doing more. Lesson #2 is this corollary: e-mail will kill us all. (It is killing me.)
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Raising capital requirements too high will push banks to take greater risks or function as utilities.