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Bankruptcy Law Backfires on Banks as Foreclosures Offset Gains

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Bankruptcy Law Backfires on Banks as Foreclosures Offset Gains

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ar909uO1CqHw&refer=home
 
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Washington Mutual Inc. got what it wanted in 2005: A revised bankruptcy code that no longer lets people walk away from credit card bills.
 
The largest U.S. savings and loan didn't count on a housing recession. The new bankruptcy laws are helping drive foreclosures to a record as homeowners default on mortgages and struggle to pay credit card debts that might have been wiped out under the old code, said Jay Westbrook, a professor of business law at the University of Texas Law School in Austin and a former adviser to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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A classic case of the Law of Unintended Consequences in action...
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