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Unfortunately, the Bankruptcy Code gives no statutory guidance for choosing or evaluating a discount or interest rate for cram-down purposes.
Reevaluating Risk and Return in Chapter 11 Secured Creditor Cramdowns: Interest Rates and Beyond
Of submissions that addressed cram-down, sixty one percent supported it.
Class warfare in debt restructuring: does Australia need cross-class cram down for creditors' schemes of arrangement?
He should have fought harder for so-called "cram-down" legislation that would have let courts modify homeowner debt the way they do for businesses.
What's the matter with the left? Thomas Frank's factually un-rigorous assault on the Clinton and Obama administrations
Debt restructurings in Kuwait have to get unanimous backing from creditors unless the negotiations are covered by the country's Financial Stability Law, which contains provisions to cram-down dissenters if a vast majority agree to a proposal.
Global creditors reject debt restructuring plan
In addition, the availability of "cram-down" provisions -- where a minority of creditors can be forced to accept a restructuring agreement if it is acceptable to the majority -- should prevent debtors from being held hostage by a few unruly creditors.
Legal limbo stymies banks' recovery of Dubai Govt
For example, the long period of job losses and little new hiring may have created something of a cram-down effect.
Focus on Education May Reduce Underemployment; Right now, better-educated Americans are more likely to get full-time work
Although the final version of the law (as enacted May 20, 2009) did not contain this cram-down provision, should the federal government consider such an approach in the future (if, for example, foreclosures continue to grow, as they have through the first half of 2009), it would be prudent to consider the significant red flags.
Two threats to sound accounting by banks and thrifts
"If we can get investors to accept a cram-down on the principal, that will help a lot.
Closing door on foreclosure; Frank outlines aid at forum in Marlboro
"This is less a bailout than a soft cram-down (a reduction in the debt owed to creditors).
Subprime soundbites
Singer: From an economic standpoint, there's a limit to how far states can go with "cost cram-down"; that is, trying to provide care for people in the least costly settings.
Nursing Home Investment: A Brighter Day Ahead?
This provision would fix what some cities and towns call a "cram-down."
Property taxes faring well in bankruptcy bill

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