Like many people, I assumed that the Treasury Department, as part of its the bailout plan for the financial industry, would buy up bad debt at less than market value. I wondered how firms woul ...

 

 

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There is nothing quite as exciting in the corporate arena as a takeover bid, particularly a hostile one. It is true that large Chapter 11 filings and anticipated IPOs generate a certain a ...

The Financial Times published two interesting pieces last week ( here and < ...

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Recently, the financial industry and the country itself has faced two sweeping market-related “scandals” or “crises” (for lack of a better term): the issues in the mort ...

Although the foundation of today’s Internet was built as a government project more than 40 years ago, relatively few people were using it at the begin ...

It seems as if banks cannot get out of the news.  First, there is the ongoing financial meltdown, which involves banks and bank groups as culprits in packaging and selling asset-backed securities and otherwise making imprudent credit decisions.&nb ...

As someone who has built a successful law blog and who has been blogging daily for more than two years, I’ve been asked to write a series of posts talking about how to blog, what to do and what not t ...