Anna Gelpern

Mar 29, 2023 | yalejreg.com | Anna Gelpern

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) got big financing a shiny piece of the American Dream in a political fundraising hotspot. Its shareholders, its creditors, its regulators, and the public fell victim to the worldview and technology that had made it big. It died a badly run, badly supervised specialty bank.[*] The forceful federal response to its failure was unhampered by the guardrails installed after the last financial crisis.

Mar 9, 2023 | piie.com | Karen Dynan |Anna Gelpern |Jacob Funk Kirkegaard |Adam Posen

Event SummaryThe Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) will present its semiannual Global Economic Prospects outlook for the US and global economies, including inflation and its implications for monetary policy. Experts also will address recent developments in the banking sector and the European economy.

Feb 17, 2023 | creditslips.org | Anna Gelpern

As a public service, the University of Illinois College of Law operates Bankr-L, an e-mail list on which bankruptcy professionals can exchange information. Bankr-L is administered by one of the Credit Slips bloggers, Professor Robert M. Lawless of the University of Illinois. Although Bankr-L is a free service, membership is limited only to persons with a professional connection to the bankruptcy field (e.g., lawyer, accountant, academic, judge).

Feb 5, 2023 | creditslips.org | Anna Gelpern

« Postpetition Asset Sales in Chapter 13s--Modification, Not Estate Property | Main | The New Usury » What could possibly trigger me enough to break a two-year blogging hiatus? A sudden burning desire to consider the difference among budget accountability, debt accountability, and the inane, moronic, irrational, exploding human appendix ****show that is the debt ceiling. Budget accountability is essential.