WSJ: Business Bankruptcy Filings Increased 7% in October

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Business bankruptcy filings jumped in October, reversing two consecutive months of declining commercial filings and indicating that bankruptcies could continue to rise as the economy struggles to stabilize....

"The margin for success is so thin that any financial hiccup" could cause a business to file for bankruptcy, said Jack Williams, a bankruptcy professor at the Georgia State University College of Law.

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Filed under: * Economics, PoliticsEconomyCorporations/Corporate LifeThe Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007--

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Posted November 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Chris wrote:

well obviously those businesses need gov’t mandated health insurance plans for their employees to get through these tough times…:(

November 4, 8:37 pm | [comment link]
2. Br_er Rabbit wrote:

Can you spell b-a-i-l-o-u-t?

November 4, 9:21 pm | [comment link]
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