Tag: Bankruptcy
Is It Malpractice? Or Do You Just Need a Different Attorney?
When you hire an attorney to handle your personal injury case, you rightfully assume that he or she will be on your side and...
Lawrence G. McDonald: Inside The Fall Of Lehman Brothers
Lawrence G. McDonald is co-author of the New York Times best seller A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse...
The Dick Fuld Denial
Richard Fuld, the former chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers, is the Shaggy of finance. On the cause of the financial crisis and the...
Selling Your Executive Team on the Need for a Customer Service...
Are you a manager or department head observing evident need for a customer service strategy but your owner(s) or headquarters not seeing this the...
The 15 Biggest Travel Stories of 2013
Big travel news kept us on our toes this year. The top stories of 2013 ranged from those that seemingly came out of nowhere,...
Big Banks and the Failure of Bankruptcy
In modern American political discourse, it is unusual to see ideas explode before your very eyes. It’s much more typical for bad ideas to...
The Scary New Chapter of America’s 223-year Love Affair with Debt
America might have too much debt for its system to cope with. No, not the financial system. Sure, at $16.7 trillion, the US government...
$2.8 Million First NLC Settlement
Fall-out from the subprime and Alt-A mortgage crisis continued recently with court approval of a multi-million dollar settlement of a lawsuit filed against former...
What You Are Not Hearing About Detroit’s Bankruptcy
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and his appointed emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, say city pensions are underfunded by $3.5 billion. The two main groups of...
Don’t Let Bankruptcy Fool You: Detroit’s Not Dead
On Thursday, the city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Cue the panic. The media, internet, and social media exploded with predictable stories of...