Monday, May 21, 2012 Grads declare bankruptcy under mountain of student loan debt By host @ 2:47 PM :: Just as college seniors prepare to graduate, experts are warning about an alarming new trend. More students are declaring bankruptcy to help get out f... Read More..

Sunday, May 06, 2012 Too broke to go bankrupt By host @ 9:07 PM :: Too broke to go bankrupt By Blake Ellis @CNNMoney May 7, 2012: 6:55 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- This year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are... Read More..

Wednesday, May 02, 2012 Student Loans: New Survey Finds College Grads Carry Large Debt Into Middle Age By host @ 2:38 PM :: There's a good chance college graduates will still be more than $20,000 in student loan debt by the time they reach the age of 45. Four-in-ten ad... Read More..

Wednesday, May 02, 2012 Student-loan debt delays dream of becoming nun By host @ 2:35 PM :: Student-loan debt delays dream of becoming nun By Eve Tahmincioglu Nicole Ferko’s $60,000 in student loans made her put off her dream ... Read More..

Tuesday, May 01, 2012 Fannie Mae backed principal reductions, internal documents show By host @ 2:33 PM :: WASHINGTON -- Fannie Mae officials supported principal reductions for some struggling homeowners in 2009 and believed they would save taxpayer money, ... Read More..

Thursday, April 26, 2012 Foreclosures rose in major metro areas in first quarter; jobless claims data mixed By host @ 2:39 PM :: The number of foreclosures rose during the first three months of the year in more than half of the nation’s metropolitan areas, even as such act... Read More..

Thursday, April 26, 2012 Even after bankruptcy, trapped by student debt By host @ 2:11 PM :: The misfortunes that brought schoolteachers Devin and Sarah Stang and their four young children to bankruptcy -- and the loss of their house and a car... Read More..

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Tax refunds being used to pay for bankruptcy filings By host @ 5:18 AM :: By Christine Dugas, USA TODAY Some Americans spend their tax refunds on high-tech gadgets and long-awaited vacations. Others use the cash to file f... Read More..

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 To Pay Off Loans, Grads Put Off Marriage, Children By host @ 11:07 AM :: Between the ages of 18 and 22, Jodi Romine took out $74,000 in student loans to help finance her business-management degree at Kent State University i... Read More..

Sunday, April 15, 2012 Rise in defaults renews 'student debt bomb' warnings By host @ 4:09 PM :: Iowa has the fourth-highest default rate on student loans, and the borrowers who are most likely to fall behind on loan repayments are years, if not d... Read More..

Friday, April 13, 2012 Student loan debt a growing threat to the economy By host @ 1:45 PM :: $870 billion in outstanding balances exceeds credit card, auto obligations By Becky Yerak, Chicago Tribune reporter 10:49 p.m. EDT, April 12, 2012... Read More..

Friday, April 13, 2012 Massive student loan debt weighs heavily on young couple By host @ 1:41 PM :: Woman testifies at Senate hearing how she was unaware of financial implications By Becky Yerak, Chicago Tribune reporter April 16, 2012 Daniell... Read More..

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Economic recovery threatened by student loans By host @ 3:41 PM :: The federal student loan program seemed like a great idea back in 1965: Borrow to go to college now, pay it back later when you have a job. But m... Read More..

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Principal forgiveness on mortgages gains appeal By host @ 3:32 PM :: By Julie Schmit, USA TODAY Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could save $1.7 billion if they forgave principal on some distressed mortgages, new analysis ... Read More..

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 FHFA chief DeMarco loosens up a bit on principal reduction By host @ 3:38 PM :: By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer The top regulator for 60 percent of America's home mortgages opened the door a bit on helping underwater homeowner... Read More..

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Edward DeMarco, Housing Chief, Not Ready For Principal Reduction, Despite $1.7 Billion In Savings By host @ 3:35 PM :: Edward DeMarco isn't ready to blink yet on principal reductions, even though doing so could save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $1.7 billion. On Tuesda... Read More..

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 New Stance on Forgiving Mortgages By host @ 3:27 PM :: By ANNIE LOWREY WASHINGTON — The overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Tuesday opened the door to forgiving some mortgage debt of homeo... Read More..

Saturday, April 07, 2012 Student loans saddle both kinds of seniors: graduates and grandparents By host @ 1:53 PM :: Come graduation time next month, there will be grandparents — many with student loans themselves — sitting at the ceremonies for their gra... Read More..

Thursday, April 05, 2012 Making Student Loans Dischargeable in Bankruptcy Could Be a Free-Market Idea By host @ 3:45 PM :: Here's a riddle that many Americans are familiar with: how are a house mortgage, credit card debt, and a car loan different from student loans?  ... Read More..

Tuesday, April 03, 2012 60 and Still Not Out of Student Loan Debt: Seniors Facing $36 Billion in College Loans By host @ 3:24 PM :: 60 and Still Not Out of Student Loan Debt: Seniors Facing $36 Billion in College Loans By BRAD TUTTLE Student loan debt is usually thought o... Read More..

Monday, April 02, 2012 Why People Hate the Banks By host @ 3:27 PM :: Why People Hate the Banks A few months ago, I was standing in a crowded elevator when Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, stepped... Read More..

Thursday, March 22, 2012 Tax refunds = more bankruptcy filings: study By host @ 7:32 PM :: By Tiffany Hsu March 23, 2012, 10:38 a.m. In the thick of tax season, a new study suggests that when Americans get their refunds, they file for mo... Read More..

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Some struggling homeowners more equal than others By host @ 4:13 PM :: Not all distressed home loan borrowers will benefit equally from the $25 billion national mortgage settlement filed in federal court last week. Par... Read More..

Saturday, March 17, 2012 Critics want housing finance chief out By host @ 4:17 PM :: The chorus is getting louder. A growing number of community groups and politicians are calling for the ouster of Ed DeMarco, the chief regulator of F... Read More..

Thursday, March 08, 2012 Mortgage Bankers Association Strategic Default By host @ 2:41 PM :: Read More..

Wednesday, March 07, 2012 Student loan totals in U.S. now higher than auto, credit card balances By host @ 1:17 PM :: Since the financial crisis tore into the U.S. economy and crashed the housing market , consumers worked hard to reduce household debt and get their fi... Read More..

Wednesday, March 07, 2012 Student loans push up bankruptcies By host @ 11:52 AM :: A typical college graduate now owes about $25,000 when he or she finishes school. This could be the economy's 'next debt bomb,' a bankruptcy attorney ... Read More..

Tuesday, March 06, 2012 Consumer protection agency takes student loan complaints By host @ 3:04 PM :: WASHINGTON - The government's new consumer protection agency started accepting complaints Monday about student loans. The Consumer Financial P... Read More..

Tuesday, March 06, 2012 Student Loan Delinquency Hit $85B in Q3 By host @ 9:35 AM :: About $85 billion in U.S. student loan debt, or 10 percent of the outstanding balance, was delinquent in the third quarter of 2011. Of the 37 milli... Read More..

Monday, March 05, 2012 Student loans seen as potential ‘next debt bomb’ for U.S. economy By host @ 11:39 AM :: Washington Post By Eric Pianin, Published: March 10 Bankruptcy lawyers have a frightening message for America: They&rsquo... Read More..

Friday, March 02, 2012 Student Loans Can Result In Debt That Won't Go Away By host @ 4:21 PM :: In what is truly a sign that America's system of higher education is morphing into a strange and dangerous beast, Ben Bernanke -- the nation's top ban... Read More..

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Colorado's college graduates increasingly weighed down by student debt By host @ 4:25 PM :: After a false start as a computer science major and an 18-month break to work, Jeremy Askim — like a lot of college students — hasn't take... Read More..

Monday, February 27, 2012 Should Student Loans be Discharged in Bankruptcy? By host @ 4:42 PM :: By Andrew Chow, JD at FindLaw.com Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:00am EST College graduates should be allowed to discharge student loans in bankruptcy, a... Read More..

Friday, February 24, 2012 Survey: Bad Foreclosure Practices Still Rampant By host @ 10:32 AM :: If you thought all of the bad press covering robo-signing and shady foreclosure practices would make big banks think twice about foreclosing on strugg... Read More..

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Student Loans Land Parents in Financial Hot Water By host @ 9:41 AM :: Some parents may even lose their homes when they cannot pay the debt By Stephanie Elam and Yvonne Beltzer Parents who co-signed for their children... Read More..

Thursday, February 09, 2012 Why Can’t You Discharge Student Loans in Bankruptcy? By host @ 9:55 AM :: By KAYLA WEBLEY If you’re struggling to pay credit card debt, car loans or even gambling debt, you can wipe the slate clean in bankruptcy. St... Read More..

Thursday, February 09, 2012 Student loan debt: The next financial disaster? By host @ 9:52 AM :: By Lynn O'Shaughnessy Student loan debt is pushing a growing number of Americans into bankruptcy and an organization of bankruptcy lawyers predicte... Read More..

Thursday, February 09, 2012 Bankruptcy lawyers warn of student loan 'debt bomb' By host @ 9:49 AM :: Jeremy Hobson: Now to a new report about a looming problem that bankruptcy lawyers say could end up being as big as the mortgage crisis. The $1 t... Read More..

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 Are Student Loans the Next Debt Bomb? By host @ 10:08 AM :: Experts worry that the mortgage finance crisis could happen all over again with student loans By MEG HANDLEY An increasing number of Americans a... Read More..

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 Bankruptcy lawyers: Student debt is looming economic bomb By host @ 10:04 AM :: By James Goodman, Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Student debt is looming as a national problem that could have rep... Read More..

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 Fox Business: Student Loan Debt: Ticking Time Bomb? By host @ 9:59 AM :: Fox Business: Student Loan Debt: Ticking Time Bomb? http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1441224809001/ Read More..

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 Student Debt Could Be Next ‘Bomb,’ U.S. Bankruptcy Lawyers Say By host @ 10:31 AM :: By Janet Lorin Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Almost half of U.S. bankruptcy attorneys representing consumers say that potential clients with student-loan d... Read More..

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 The Student Loan Crisis Is Crippling America's Families -- Is The Economy Next? By host @ 10:29 AM :: With student loan debt now topping U.S. credit card debt and few or no options available for distressed borrowers (including parents who co-signed and... Read More..

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 Student debt pushing more people toward bankruptcy, lawyers say By host @ 10:19 AM :: More than four-fifths of bankruptcy attorneys have seen a notable jump in the number of potential clients with student loan debt, the National Assn. o... Read More..

Thursday, February 02, 2012 NACBA warns of student loan "debt bomb" By host @ 9:46 AM :: posted by Jean Braucher At its annual Capitol Hill Day in Washington this week, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys sounded a... Read More..

Thursday, January 12, 2012 Law from 2005 harms debtors needing a new start By host @ 10:40 AM :: For more than a year, both nationwide and locally the number of bankruptcy filings has fallen. These statistics contradict the reality of high unemplo... Read More..

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Filings for bankruptcy decreased all of 2011 By host @ 10:41 AM :: By Jonathan D. Epstein BuffaloNews.com Bankruptcy filings maintained their downward pace all of last year, as the total number of new cases in the... Read More..

Monday, January 09, 2012 Bankruptcy filings are down 10% By host @ 2:44 PM :: By Patrick Danner, pdanner@express-news.net Here's another sign that South-Central Texas might be on the path of an economic recovery: Consumer b... Read More..

Monday, January 09, 2012 Bankruptcy filings fell in 2011 By host @ 2:43 PM :: By Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun Sentinel Personal bankruptcies in South Florida fell in 2011, the first time in five years. But the decline may be dec... Read More..

Monday, January 09, 2012 Sloppy seconds: Feds probe million$ 'double-billing' by banks By host @ 2:27 PM :: By:  Catherine Curan  (New York Post) Federal investigators are looking into allegations that banks have wrongly pocketed tens of million... Read More..

Wednesday, January 04, 2012 For-Profit College Students Face Higher Debt, More Unemployment, Report Finds By host @ 2:13 PM :: Students attending for-profit colleges wind up with much higher student-loan debts, are less likely to be employed after graduation and generally earn... Read More..

Tuesday, January 03, 2012 Feds probe millions in 'double-billing' by banks By host @ 10:13 AM :: Feds probe millions in 'double-billing' by banks Federal investigators are looking into allegations that banks have wrongly pocketed tens of millio... Read More..

Thursday, December 29, 2011 Should Student Loans be Dischargeable in Bankruptcy? By host @ 1:17 PM :: Alan Collings http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2011/12/29/should-student-loans-be-dischargeable-in-bankruptcy/ One of the most cited g... Read More..

Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Details of Mortgage Servicing Settlement Between Banks and AGs Begin to Emerge By host @ 11:52 AM :: The never-ending negotiations between the 50 state attorneys general (minus a few big ones) and five major banks over penalties and standards for past... Read More..

Friday, December 16, 2011 New Study Critical of BAPCPA Reforms By host @ 8:15 PM :: Bankruptcy More Expensive and Cumbersome Than Ever Congressional "reform" made the system more complex, study finds James Hood, consumeraffairs.co... Read More..

Sunday, December 11, 2011 Bankruptcy: Debtor's downfall and trustee's boon? By host @ 9:00 PM :: By Susan Brown susan.brown@nwi.com, (219) 662-5325 HAMMOND | The country's shattered economy has driven many a distressed debtor to bankruptcy cou... Read More..

Sunday, December 11, 2011 EDITORIAL: Creditors deserve more than bankruptcy trustees By host @ 8:21 PM :: Personal bankruptcy is a humiliating experience for the people who go through it. It is likewise unsatisfactory for the creditors who get less than th... Read More..

Sunday, December 11, 2011 Going Bankrupt in 2012, but Keeping Your Home By host @ 8:18 PM :: –Philip van Doorn, bank analyst at TheStreet Despite the apparent economic improvement, with the unemployment rate finally moving below 9% in N... Read More..

Friday, December 02, 2011 Time to Accelerate the Housing Recovery By host @ 11:54 AM :: Time to Accelerate the Housing Recovery By FLOYD NORRIS It’s housing, stupid. More precisely, it’s housing finance. As the O... Read More..

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Mortgage modification may remedy foreclosure crisis By host @ 9:51 PM :: By Todd Ruger, Herald-Tribune Link to Herald-Tribune Website A program to save homeowners from foreclosure that has shown startling results in O... Read More..

Friday, October 14, 2011 Fewer people in debt trouble seeking counseling, other help By host @ 2:41 PM :: By Christine Dugas, USA TODAY Even as more Americans are piling on debt, fewer are seeking counseling or other kinds of relief to try and get their f... Read More..

Friday, October 14, 2011 Angry Calif. Democrats call on Obama to help struggling homeowners By host @ 10:11 AM :: Kitty Felde | KPCC California Congressional democrats are accusing the Obama Administration of not doing enough to help the growing number of homeo... Read More..

Friday, October 14, 2011 California Dems blast Obama on foreclosure crisis By host @ 10:09 AM :: Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau Washington -- California House Democrats ripped the Obama administration Wednesday for inaction on home... Read More..

Friday, October 14, 2011 Do something about foreclosures, California Democrats urge Obama By host @ 9:42 AM :: -- Richard Simon and Jim Puzzanghera in Washington In a rare display of frustration with the Obama administration, California House Democrats on We... Read More..

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Americans with Advanced Degrees Are Increasingly Filing for Bankruptcy By host @ 8:45 PM :: A new study by the Institute for Financial Literacy chronicles increasing rates of bankruptcy for Americans with advanced degrees. The study found th... Read More..

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Relief for Student Debtors By host @ 7:27 AM :: Editorial from The New York Times Relief for Student Debtors Published: August 26, 2011 Since the start of the recession, record numbers of Amer... Read More..

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Bankruptcy Filings Drop Due To Apathy By host @ 9:00 PM :: Monday, 08/15/11 10:19am (Host) Reports from Wall Street have been bleak this week. So, news that bankruptcy filings were down compared to last ye... Read More..

Thursday, August 04, 2011 Leahy, Blumenthal press leading national mortgage servicing companies about foreclosures in bankruptcy courts By host @ 3:16 PM :: Written by The Bridgeport News Wednesday, 03 August 2011 16:28 Senators seek information about lenders’ policies and practices WASHINGTON &... Read More..

Thursday, July 28, 2011 Orlando's personal bankruptcies dip for first time in 5 years By host @ 9:58 PM :: July 26, 2011|By Richard Burnett, Orlando Sentinel Despite Central Florida's stubbornly high unemployment and other economic woes, the pace of going ... Read More..

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Bankruptcy rate down 15% at midyear By host @ 2:37 PM :: At the year’s midpoint, the pace of bankruptcy filings is down 15 percent from last year’s record rate in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Middle... Read More..

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Bankrupt Bay Area homeowners shed second mortgages By host @ 12:58 PM :: By Pete Carey pcarey@mercurynews.com Posted: 05/09/2011 09:10:53 AM PDT Updated: 05/09/2011 03:13:28 PM PDT Stung by the crash of the housing ... Read More..

Thursday, April 21, 2011 More people go bankrupt in Sedgwick County; fewer lose their homes By host @ 7:40 AM :: BY DAN VOORHIS The Wichita Eagle Bankruptcies are surging in Sedgwick County while home foreclosures are falling. But while the first seems bad and... Read More..

Thursday, April 21, 2011 California bankruptcy court rules against MERS By host @ 7:37 AM :: Tuesday, April 19th, 2011, 2:30 pm A California bankruptcy court says Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems cannot help a trustee establish lega... Read More..

Friday, March 25, 2011 Bankruptcy filings, like foreclosures, expected to pick up again By host @ 10:50 AM :: By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer In Print: Friday, February 25, 2011 The drawn-out financial squeeze afflicting many in the Tampa Bay area a... Read More..

Tuesday, March 08, 2011 Real face of bankruptcy looks nothing like Hecker By host @ 4:05 PM :: The fallen auto mogul gets headlines, but the real truth of bankruptcy is that ordinary people are blindsided by life. By RONALD J. LUNDQUIST La... Read More..

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Mass. bankruptcy claims still on the rise By host @ 2:32 PM :: Despite signs that the economy is slowly improving, bankruptcy filings continued to climb in Massachusetts for the fourth straight year. In 2010, 2... Read More..

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 In WNY, bankruptcy continues to decline By host @ 4:07 PM :: Updated: February 14, 2011, 6:29 AM Bankruptcy filings in Western New York continued to defy national trends in January, falling by 20 percent from ... Read More..

Sunday, February 13, 2011 Personal bankruptcy filings in Colorado rose 17.2% last year By host @ 3:58 PM :: A rising number of people filed for bankruptcy protection last year in Colorado, even as the number of businesses doing so declined for the first time... Read More..

Sunday, February 13, 2011 New York Fed Economists Say Bush-Era Bankruptcy Law Fueled Over 200,000 Foreclosures By host @ 3:50 PM :: WASHINGTON -- Economists at the New York Federal Reserve have concluded that a controversial 2005 law backed by banks and credit card companies pushed... Read More..