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Detroit Bankruptcy

WATCH: Will Detroit Go Broke?

Posted 06.18.2013 | Detroit

What can Detroit learn from New York City, Vallejo, CA and other cities around the country that have faced bankruptcy? Municipal finance experts from ...

READ: Emergency Manager's Plan To Save Detroit

Posted 06.14.2013 | Detroit

Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr has a restructuring plan that he says will keep the troubled city from landing in bankruptcy court. While bondhold...

Plan For Detroit Will Put City In Default: Fitch Ratings

Reuters | Posted 06.14.2013 | Detroit

June 14 (Reuters) - Credit rating agency Fitch said it would consider Detroit to be in default if it stops making payments on certain obligations as...

Detroit Will Stop Paying Its Bills

Reuters | Posted 06.15.2013 | Detroit

By Bernie Woodall and Steve Neavling DETROIT, June 14 (Reuters) - Detroit said on Friday it would stop making payments...

The Creditors Are Coming To Town

Reuters | Posted 06.14.2013 | Detroit

DETROIT, June 14 (Reuters) - Detroit's creditors will begin to learn on Friday morning what they can recover without driving the fin...

Detroit's Bond Ratings Take Another Hit

Reuters | Posted 06.14.2013 | Detroit

June 13 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Thursday pushed the credit ratings on nearly $8.4 billion of Detroit bonds deeper i...

Detroit Has Significant Chance Of Bankruptcy

Reuters | Posted 06.11.2013 | Detroit

DETROIT, June 10 (Reuters) - In his first public meeting, Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr said On Monday the city has a 50/50 chance of filing f...

Orr Drives A Hard Bargain

Reuters | Posted 06.07.2013 | Detroit

By Steve Neavling DETROIT, June 7 (Reuters) - Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr plans to deliver grim news to the city's creditors n...

Some Billionaire's Folly: Is Detroit an Incredible Investment Opportunity?

Alex Alsup | Posted 06.03.2013 | Detroit
Alex Alsup

Most say Detroit is done for, finished. But I just can't reconcile that attitude with what I think is plain to see: Detroit is the best investment opportunity since some numbskull bought Alaska for $7 million.

DIA Backers: Hands Off Our Art

Crain's Detroit Business | Posted 05.28.2013 | Detroit

Local foundation and arts leaders are mobilizing to fight a possible sale of part of the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection -- an idea that is on t...

Clock Is Ticking For Detroit

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2013 | Detroit

By Bernie Woodall and Karen Pierog DETROIT, May 19 (Reuters) - Bond restructurings, negotiated settlements with bondholders and bond i...

Detroit's Finances Are Even Worse Than Imagined

AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.13.2013 | Detroit

DETROIT — The first report by Detroit's emergency manager declares that the city is broke and at risk of running completely out of money –...

'Vulture' Hedge Funds Looking To Profit On Detroit Debt

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2013 | Detroit

By Tom Hals May 8 (Reuters) - In the past two decades, a group of specialized hedge funds have transformed corporate bankruptcies, in...

Ashley Woods

Mitt Romney For Detroit's Emergency Manager?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ashley Woods | Posted 03.04.2013 | Detroit

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is on the hunt for an emergency manager to turn around Detroit's financial crisis after declaring the city in a state of fin...

WATCH: Dissecting Detroit's Meltdown On HuffPost Live

HuffPost Live | Posted 03.04.2013 | Detroit

On Friday, Gov. Rick Snyder (R) declared that the city of Detroit is in a state of "financial emergency." He will most likely appoint an emergency ...

Detroit Has 'Financial Emergency': State Review Team

AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 04.21.2013 | Detroit

DETROIT — A state-appointed review team has determined Detroit is in a financial emergency, paving the way for Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to ap...

'Magician' Needed For Emergency Manager Job: Restructuring Firm Head

Reuters | Posted 04.17.2013 | Detroit

(Corrects identity of Jase Bolger's spokesman to Ari Adler from Virgil Smith in 18th paragraph) By Steve Neavling and Tom Hals ...

Takeover Contagion: Detroit's Just The Latest City To Face State Control

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 01.11.2013 | Detroit

-- If Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder concludes that Detroit cannot fix its own financial problems, the city would become the sixth in the state to get an ...

Team Could Decide Detroit's Fate This Week

AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 01.08.2013 | Detroit

DETROIT -- A review team scrutinizing Detroit's poor finances could make a recommendation this week that will help determine whether there's a state t...

Audit: Detroit Has $327 Million Deficit

Detroit Free Press | Posted 03.05.2013 | Detroit

Detroit's latest annual audit pegs the city's accumulated general-fund deficit at nearly $327 million, underscoring the depth of the city's fiscal cri...

City Says Big Firms May Owe Taxes -- But Also Says It Might Be Wrong

Detroit Free Press | Posted 02.22.2013 | Detroit

Mayor Dave Bing says he wants to go after companies that owe possibly tens of millions in unpaid taxes to the City of Detroit, but he may want to look...

How Bing Plans To Collect $50 Million For Detroit

Detroit Free Press | Posted 12.19.2012 | Detroit

Mayor Dave Bing's administration today laid out what it called a fair but aggressive plan to raise $50 million in badly needed revenue through collect...

Financial Review Team Has 60 Days To Determine Detroit's Future

AP | DAVID N. GOODMAN | Posted 12.19.2012 | Detroit

DETROIT -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appointed six people Tuesday to conduct a 60-day review of Detroit's municipal finances and decide if the state s...

State: Detroit's Books Show 'Serious Financial Problem'

AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 12.16.2012 | Detroit

DETROIT -- A preliminary review of Detroit's finances has determined that the city is not on target to fulfill promises to the state that allowed the ...

Detroit Gives Workers Bonuses While City Battles Bankruptcy

Posted 12.14.2012 | Detroit

Sure, Detroit officials might be struggling to balance the city's books in a bid to avoid an emergency financial manager. But that hasn't stopped thos...