The philosopher Harry Frankfurt famously published his book, On Bullshit, where he distinguished … [Read more...]
NYT on Student Loans in Bankruptcy
At the New York Times, Ron Lieber has a story about the treatment of student loans in bankruptcy. … [Read more...]
New Frontiers in Systemic Risk
My oldest leaves for college in the morning. Yesterday, we were talking to him about his new bank … [Read more...]
Bankruptcy Code in ePub and Kindle Formats
For readers putting together course syllabi in the bankruptcy area, this post is just a reminder … [Read more...]
Except as Provided in the Syllabus, Students Shall Read the Statutory Section (i) Before Coming to Class or (ii) In Class Unless Provided Otherwise
The legal side of what we do requires comprehending dense statutory texts. Law students, however, … [Read more...]
Bankruptcy Filings Still Falling
On a year-over-year basis, the bankruptcy filing rate has been dropping around 12-16%, and last … [Read more...]
A Question Answered
Back in April, I posted about Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson investigating allegations that … [Read more...]
Bankruptcy Filings Are Down — Everywhere
With half the year over, there is half of the year still to go. For our few readers who might … [Read more...]
Overspending in India
Check out this story in the New York Times about free-wheeling consumer credit in India. Much of the … [Read more...]
Bankruptcy’s Living History
The American College of Bankruptcy (ACB) in cooperation with the Biddle Law Library at the … [Read more...]
Can(n)onading Radlax
As Stephen noted, the Supreme Court has decided the RadLAX case. Although I suspect I won't be … [Read more...]
Chapter 13 Disparities: This Time with a Map
A few weeks ago, I put up a post describing the states with the highest and lowest per capita … [Read more...]
Freep, froop, frop . . . No, It’s Pottow!
Credit Slips alumni John Pottow sent me an op-ed from Freep.com. Being an idiot, it took me a while … [Read more...]
Storage Wars and the Credit Practices Rule
A few times I have caught Storage Wars, a television show on A&E. When storage units customers … [Read more...]
Storage Wars and the Credit Practices Rule
A few times I have caught Storage Wars, a television show on A&E. When storage units customers … [Read more...]
Affidavits Are Not a Substitute for Evidence of Debt Ownership
The Tennessee Court of Appeals has issued a decision that highlights the problems facing credit card … [Read more...]
Accretive’s Bedside Manner for Debt Collection
The end of last week got a little busy for many of the Credit Slips bloggers and none of us talked … [Read more...]
Research Grants from NCBJ
As many readers of this blog will know, the Endowment for Education from the National Conference of … [Read more...]
An Idea to Limit Body Attachments
As many Credit Slips readers will know, so-called "body attachments" allow a creditor to … [Read more...]
An Idea to Limit Body Attachments
As many Credit Slips readers will know, so-called "body attachments" allow a creditor to … [Read more...]
Where People File Chapter 13
Between states, there is a big disparity in the rate at which people file bankruptcy. Over the past … [Read more...]
Downward Bankruptcy Filing Trend Continues
Bankruptcy filings for March continued to show a year-over-year decline. According to the latest … [Read more...]
Why Us?
What does it mean that the two most common forms of comment spam on this blog are people trying to … [Read more...]
Why Us?
What does it mean that the two most common forms of comment spam on this blog are people trying to … [Read more...]
One Answer to Why People Hate Banks
My last post mentioned a column by Joe Nocera on debt collection practices. Nocera's column is … [Read more...]
American Banker on Credit Card Debt Collections
Jeff Horwitz at the American Banker has been doing some great reporting on abusive debt collection … [Read more...]
Tax Rebates Lead to Bankruptcy Filings
Jialan Wang has a blog post up summarizing her and her co-authors very interesting NBER paper … [Read more...]
Six Years and Counting
Today is the sixth anniversary of Credit Slips, which is hard to believe. We have been through a lot … [Read more...]