- Per more than 30 state attorneys general, the less information lenders can draw on in credit reports, the better the credit system will work [Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ; exclusion of many tax liens and civil judgments under pressure from authorities]
- Federalist Society podcasts: Ted Frank on Walgreen shareholder litigation, Thaya Brook Knight on “predatory lending” cases before Supreme Court [Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami and Wells Fargo v. City of Miami; can cities sue under Fair Housing Act as indirectly injured?];
- The eternal recycling of bad old ideas: efforts to bring back public ownership of banks persist [East Bay Express, Oakland; earlier]
- Statutes of limitations protect us from spending life anxious about distant past coming back to haunt us over half-forgotten slights [Ilya Shapiro, Thaya Brook Knight, and David McDonald on Kokesh v. SEC “equitable disgorgement” end-run around 5-year statute]
- Obligatory employee vacation-taking as an anti-fraud measure [Dan Lewis, Now I Know]
- Obama’s hosing of secured creditors in Chrysler bankruptcy raised borrowing costs of other unionized firms [Bradley Blaylock, Alexander Edwards, and Jared Stanfield, SSRN]
Filed under: attorneys general, bankruptcy, banks, debtor-creditor law, statutes of limitations
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“Obama’s hosing of secured creditors in Chrysler bankruptcy raised borrowing costs of other unionized firms”
Duh. No sane person would lend to such firms anymore.
Mr. Olson and I will continue to agree to disagree about whether public banks are a good or a bad idea. My view is that publicly owned banks can be as good as or as bad as private banks.
Allan, the culture of North Dakota allows for a conservatively run public bank that provides useful services in a state that is thinly populated and has always had a cautious public sector even when populist agrarians dominated state politics. Anyone with any familiarity with Oakland knows that the idea that a publicly owned bank there could work there is ludicrous. When you read the article that Walter links to, you can read how its proponents are under the delusion that this will be a means of funding all sorts of goodies to the underprivileged.
PaulB. I do not want to put words into Mr. Olson’s mouth, but I would suspect that he opposes the North Dakota bank as much as any other publicly owned bank. And I do not think that a publicly owned bank would ipso facto be a great institution. I just think that a publicly owned bank can work and, in some circumstances, is work exploring.
I have no opinion whether such a bank could work in Oakland. The arguments on both sides are persuasive.