There are a lot of high-profile bankruptcy stories making the media rounds these days. Here in Texas, there's the effort by American Airlines Inc. and its parent AMR Corp. to not only reorganize, but merge with US Airways Group Inc. as part of an overall restructuring...
Month: October 2013
Lenders urged to help consumers weather shutdown’s effects
The thing about life's major upheavals is that they have ripple effects that tend to linger well after the storm has passed. You see it in the wake of any major natural disaster. The same can be said of those difficulties we create ourselves, like the recent...
Are there money problems that technology could solve?
With everything tending toward going digital these days, is the time ripe for money to go that way, too? There is a cadre of individuals that thinks it may be.At the very least this group thinks there are enough problems in how the current currency-based world works...
Is government shutdown slowing bankruptcy cases?
Bankruptcy courts in the United States are open for business despite the continuing partial shutdown of the government. That does not mean that the courts are operating at full steam.The concern that raises among some observers is that consumers and businesses who may...
