Some analysts are now looking at SoloPower and asking why the federal government — as it worked furiously to keep Solyndra from going bankrupt — made a major investment in a company that relied on a similar technology.
They're no strangers to public humiliation, having been arrested, stood trial, posed nude, battled addictions, got divorced, gone bankrupt, made flop movies, been canceled and generally failed, all in the glare of the spotlight.
If are buying a home while bankrupt, make sure your property rights will be protected when you buy the home through non-traditional means.
But on April 1st, going bust will become a bit easier, thanks to Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, who thinks that punishing bankrupts makes people fear taking risks.
But many state-owned enterprises that are not listed on exchanges have not issued shares because they are either small or, in many cases, virtually bankrupt -- making them unattractive to investors.
Then again, both Apple and Microsoft could go bankrupt tomorrow, making all of this moot.
Hard to say yet if it's working, but a bunch of people who aren't bankrupt are making money off it.
Because both the biggest bankrupt (Enron) and the fourth-biggest bankrupt (Global Crossing) made contributions to politicians of both parties, the resulting public disgust has been used to advance bipartisan campaign finance reform.
DISTRACTED WORKERS Do employees working for bankrupt companies make substandard cars?
"Is that fair, for a CEO of a company that's now bankrupt, to make that kind of money?
"I saved the Tropicana, which was bankrupt, and made it into one of the only vibrant and surviving casinos in Atlantic City," he told me.
