Bromhead Design in liquidation – Stuff.co.nz

Peter Bromhead is the sole shareholder of Bromhead Design. High-end furniture importing business Bromhead Design Associates has gone into liquidation, owing an more than $270,000. The company is owned by interior designer and one of the country’s most celebrated cartoonists Peter Bromhead. Liquidators Simon Dalton and Matthew Kemp said in their first report that the company’s shareholder decided…

Puerto Rican Business Groups File Legal Challenge to Hike In Electric Rates Forced By PREPA Restructuring Deal – PR Newswire (press release)

If allowed to proceed, the initial 22 percent rate increase would be one of the largest in recent U.S. history to be imposed on a state-wide or territory-wide basis. The June 2016 order by the Puerto Rico Energy Commission provided for a new surcharge to service the $9-billion PREPA debt restructuring. PREPA requested that the…

Forgiving all US student loan debt sounds amazing. Here’s why it’s a terrible idea – Quartz

The United States economy faces many challenges, but student debt isnt one of them. Its true, total outstanding student debt is $1.26 trillion, far larger than car loans, which are $1.1 trillion or credit card debt, weighing in at $0.73 trillion. But still, student loan debt isnt something most Americans (even indebted millennials) should worry…

Greg Hinz’s Unequal Coverage of Term Limits and Automatic Voter Registration – Illinois Mirror

Greg Hinzs Unequal Coverage of Term Limits and Automatic Voter Registration Posted by Brittany Clingen on Thursday, August 18, 2016 | Leave a Comment   Greg Hinz of Crains Chicago Business recently wrote two separate articles addressing public policy issues: one about term limits and the other about Governor Bruce Rauners veto of an automatic voter registration…

Student debt-relief companies don’t deliver on promises, study shows – Christian Science Monitor

Every day, false promises of help lure in young college grads anxious to pay off their loans. So-called debt-relief companies make bold and sometimes misleading offers to the grads by charging for a service they could have easily performed themselves. One company offers “Obama’s new loan forgiveness program,” which doesn’t even exist. College grads who…