bankruptcy

People might be having fewer children, but that isn’t the only thing to blame for Children’s Place filing for bankruptcy.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

A group of investors founded the town just 30 years ago after buying the land at a bankruptcy auction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

But in 2020, a bankruptcy court ruled that the company could abandon its shuttered Vernon plant, leaving the cleanup to California taxpayers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Rite-Aid, which once had ranked among the big three of national pharmacy chains, went bankrupt in May 2025, filing for Chapter 11 protection only eight months after emerging from a previous bankruptcy filing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

On Monday, Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy, and Merrill Lynch, having announced $55.2 billion in losses on subprime bond–backed CDOs, had sold itself to Bank of America.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

His surname became synonymous with big-money deals, success and opulence despite a string of bankruptcies, casino closures and failed direct-to-consumer businesses.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Weil was a pioneer among elite firms in building a restructuring practice, leading some of the largest bankruptcies in history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“We have record high businesses that have gone out of business, bankruptcies, businesses that are leaving, family bankruptcies are at an all-time high,” Drazan said, exaggerating some.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Farm bankruptcies jumped 46 percent from 2024 to 2025, with the Midwest outpacing other regions, on lower revenue and rising expenses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The various bonds you make from those loans will go bad not as the loans go bad but months later, after a lot of tedious foreclosures and bankruptcies and forced sales.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis