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But Florida homeowner advocates say most lenders were hardly as amenable to mortgage relief last summer as they've become in recent months, when local governments like Miami Gardens began pressing the issue. "We're seeing a change, more willingness among the banks to cooperate," says Arden Shank, head of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grass-Roots Efforts Aim to Ease the Foreclosure Crisis | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Many lenders, the advocates hope, are starting to see not just the financial benefits of avoiding foreclosure - the avoidance of legal costs, boarding-up and lawn-mowing fees, sharply discounted resale values - but the p.r. dividends as well. That may be especially true for companies like the San Francisco-based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grass-Roots Efforts Aim to Ease the Foreclosure Crisis | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Japan's charm offensive is taking shape on several fronts. Cash-flush Japanese banks, which have only just emerged from their own decade-long debt crisis, are infusing money into distressed companies such as Morgan Stanley. Japan Inc. is going on another of its famous investment sprees abroad, opening factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Reaches Out | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

These railroads were worth more alive than dead, so inventive people figured out ways to reorganize them rather than shut them down. "The investment banks and lawyers and managers would negotiate a deal and get the courts to bless it," says David Skeel, a law professor at the University of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Call It Bankruptcy | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

First came the financial sector. Bankruptcy has never really worked for banks, because mere rumors that a bank is headed for failure can drive it under. That's why Congress long ago created a separate regulatory system and reorganization process for banks, with the Fed and the fdic at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Call It Bankruptcy | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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