The hidden life of consumer bankruptcy reform: danger signs for the new U.S. law from unexpected parallels in the Netherlands.
ABSTRACT This Article offers a unique perspective on the heavily revised U.S. consumer bankruptcy law, which went effect on October 17, 2005, in light of a surprising discovery: It turns out that the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system as "reformed" resembles in many critical respects the consumer bankruptcy...

Forgive us our debts.
Would you pay off a debt rather than buy needed medicine for your sick child? That's the choice many nations face in juggling their international debt and their developmental needs. Patrick McCormick examines the growing level of personal debt as well as crippling international debt and decides it's time...

THE CHURCH ON THE ROCKS.
In the May issue I offered my tribute, written as he was dying, to my former bishop,John Cardinal O'Connor. He was one of the truly great men I have been privileged to know, and I owe him a personal debt of gratitude beyond measure. I will not repeat what...

Student Debt, Attitudes Towards Debt, Impulsive Buying, and Financial Management.
The debt levels of current and ex-psychology students were compared with their attitudes towards debt, tendency towards impulsive buying, and their use of methods to reduce or limit debt. The percentage of students with some debt and their total debt levels increased with the level of university study. Tolerance...

(22nd North American) Conference on Christian philanthropy.
Approximately 300 representatives of mainline churches from Canada and the United States met in Toronto on April 17-19 to hear some plain talk about money. The occasion was the 22nd North American Conference on Christian philanthropy, the first ever to be held in Canada. Entitled "The Great Giveaway: Money...

John Updike: a novelist for curious Christians.
John Updike, by now, has placed dozens of those books on library shelves. All of them have a style that dazzles and a subject matter of special interest to Christians. Life. That's Updike's subject matter. Life, not in a vacuum, but life as it is...

The Debt Diet.
The Debt Diet Ellie Kay Bethany House Publishers 11400 Hampshire Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55438 0764200011 $12.99 1-800-328-6109 www.bethanyhouse.com Personal finance author, conference speaker, and national radio commentator for "Money Matters" Ellie Kay presents The Debt Diet, a straightforward...

RBI wants banks to offer counselling to borrowers.
MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India governor YV Reddy has urged banks to be serious about credit counselling to borrowers in view of the rapid growth in consumer and housing loans, and the emphasis on financial inclusion. Speaking at the launch of the credit counselling centre by Bank...

Fuzzy math; Learning to live within your means.
Byline: Lisa Eckelbecker Her head bent over a budget questionnaire, Abigail T. Milewski stared at a column of numbers that refused to add up the way she had hoped. A car, an apartment in a major city, donations to charity and chic clothing - no...

The modern American "widow," the church and the formation of public policy.
Abstract Recent years have witnessed a proliferation in the number of U. S. households declaring personal bankruptcy. Studies show that the vast majority of these bankruptcies stem not from excessive or wasteful spending, but financial crises brought on first and foremost by uninsured medical costs. Not surprisingly,...