The unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in April, up from 9.7 in March and many experts expect the unemployment rate to remain high until 2015. Currently there are 15.3 million unemployed Americans as of April and that's not counting workers who have given up on finding a job. The unemployment rate is calculated by [...]
The Dallas City Council has approved a $1 million loan program that is designed to assist small businesses in southern and western Dallas get capital for growth. The program, which will provide $1 million from the city's public/private partnership fund to the Southern Dallas Development Corporation was approved unanimously with only one dissenting voice. But [...]
Home furnishings retailer Furniture Factory Warehouse, which operates 12 stores in South Texas, has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection due to unfavorable financial conditions and a consistent decline in furniture sales. The retailer has closed all of its stores and distribution facilities pending the bankruptcy court's approval of Furniture Factory Warehouse's "Bankruptcy Going Out [...]
General Growth Properties Inc., which filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, has finished restructuring its $15 billion secured-debt load, clearing yet another obstacle from its path as it attempts to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan today approved a restructuring agreement on a $95 million loan tied to a Louisiana [...]
If you thought the Texas Rangers bankruptcy drama had ended, it seems that it is just getting started. Most recently bankruptcy judge Michael Lynn quipped that "This is like one of those baseball movies where the players get stranded," after convincing Chase to keep the baseball team's credit card active while they played in Kansas [...]
Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn said he had never before seen a fight over who would provide Chapter 11 bankruptcy financing for a bankruptcy company because securing such financing is usually an uphill battle. But this is the exact type of drama that broke out when senior creditors of the Texas Rangers offered to loan the [...]
Debt is big business. That's why there are so many people out there invested in getting you indebted and keeping you that way. One of the ways they do this is by spreading myths about bankruptcy, which is the only legal way to have your debts forgiven. Let's take a look at some of the [...]
Carl Icahn and Dallas-based Beal Bank have appealed a bankruptcy court ruling that would give ownership of the casinos to Donald Trump, his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and company bondholders. Icahn and the bank claim the bankruptcy court made several mistakes in ruling against them. The Trumps and the bondholders, led by New York-based Avenue Capital [...]
The official national unemployment rate for the country is 9.7 percent. Millions of Americans are out of work and trying to figure out how to survive without a job. One of the biggest casualties of joblessness is not just the frustration and anger that accompanies fruitless job searches, but also the seemingly imminent financial disaster [...]
Amid the new Credit Card Act which limits the credit card issuer's most profitable practices, many credit card companies are looking for new ways to generate additional income. New credit card fees such as annual fees and new banking fees for checking account customers are just a couple of ideas that banks are implementing to [...]