Investor Icahn offers to buy CIT Group debt if bondholders agree …

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn offered Tuesday to buy bonds from CIT Group Inc.’s smaller bondholders at a discount as he tries to thwart a restructuring plan by the commercial lender.

Student coalition tackles student debt problem – News

According to the College Board Web site, “65 percent of 2007-08 bachelor’s degree recipients graduated with educacation debt, and median debt for those who borrowed was $20000. Among public four-year bachelor’s degree recipients, …

TaxProf Blog: The Student Debt Crisis, Part II

The Student Debt Crisis, Part II. New York Times, Why College Costs Rise, Even in a Recession, by Ron Lieber: If you have paid a college tuition bill recently … [you may want] to ask some pointed questions of the people who are doing …

How to Evaluate a Good Debt Settlement Company

Article from Articlebliss and entitled How to Evaluate a Good Debt Settlement Company – By JJ Yong.

FTC plans to regulate 'debt relief' firms | Sinecta.com

Dear Action Line: I can’t believe these debt settlement companies are allowed to operate — charging thousands just to put their customers deeper in.

Chuck Grassley's Debt and Deficit Dragon – Continental Philosophy …

Chuck Grassley’s Debt and Deficit Dragon. At the end of a class today on Democracy, the students and I were discussing the value of fiction in understanding politics. One objection was that fictional characters are too exaggerated and …

Commentaries » Blog Archive » Riskiest corporate debt looks frothy …

At the bottom of the credit ratings ladder sit debt-laden companies at the highest risk of not making good on their obligations. The average annual default rate for CCC-rated companies is 25 percent, according to Fitch Ratings. …

Free Money Finance: A College Debt Nightmare

A reader recently sent me a link to this story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (hello to all my friends and family in Pittsburgh!!!!) that details the college debt racked up by a resident there. The details: Student loans were a…

Chuck Grassley's Debt and Deficit Dragon | The Daily Show | Comedy …

Chuck Grassley muddles the King Arthur legend to prove his point on expensive health care reform.