"Greece owns buildings, companies and uninhabited islands, which could all be used for discharging debt".
"Discharging debt where schools illegally take advantage of their own students costs the government money.
At an meeting in Newark, a former college hockey player sought to discharge debts from a long inventory of cards -- $16,000 owed to Chase, $10,000 to Capital One, $16,000 to MBNA America, $700 to Macy's.
At another meeting in Newark, a former college hockey player sought to discharge debts from an inventory of cards as long as his arm -- $16,000 owed to Chase, $10,000 to Capital One, $16,000 to MBNA America, $700 to Macy's.
Ferguson believes money was invented to record and discharge debts, and he passes rather quickly on to the rise of banking in the Middle Ages, the issue by governments of annuities and other bonds, the origins of insurance and the establishment of joint-stock companies.
He suffered the privations of the prison, and was unable to discharge debts that ran to £10,000.
Today, we see modern parallels of many of these injustices: police brutality and discrimination against poor people and people of color; minor indiscretions punished with lengthy sentences; poor people jailed for inability to discharge debts; inadequate indigent defense, leading to innocent people being convicted and, in several proven instances, executed for crimes they did not commit.
He says four of his other clients have recently received letters from banks claiming to forgive discharged debt.
Special rules around student loans, like forbidding most borrowers to discharge debt in bankruptcy.
They took advantage of bankruptcy not to discharge debt, but to load up on it.
Make sure you follow up with any reporting agency who lists incorrect information on your credit report or who continues to allow discharged debt to appear on the report.
