#Financial Crisis

Articles (16)

• 🇺🇸 USPS Is Running Out of Money. Here’s How It Could Affect Your Mail. — 11/04/2026 [USA]

  Despite numerous attempts to reform the Postal Service, the agency’s business model has not changed significantly since 1970. Officials are proposing to decrease service and increase prices.

  Related: #Postal Reform, #Rural Affairs, #Government Policy
• 🇺🇸 Thames Water seeks creditor approval to extend funding deadline — 09/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Corporate Debt, #Utility Regulation
• 🇺🇸 European real estate stocks near 2009 lows in March selloff, Goldman says — 30/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Market Volatility, #Real Estate, #Economic Policy
• 🇺🇸 I ‘raided’ my 401(k) to save my house—and I don't regret it — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  This 57-year-old dad touched the untouchable after getting laid off. Turns out he’s a trendsetter.

  Related: #Retirement Planning, #Homeownership, #Emergency Financial Decisions
• 🇺🇸 Crisis at Row K: New Indie Film Distributor’s Money Problems Put Reputations and Maude Apatow’s Directorial Debut in Jeopardy (EXCLUSIVE) — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Less than eight months after it launched, Row K Entertainment, a new Hollywood distribution label, is being beset with unpaid bills and concerns about its finances. Eight sources from outside the comp...

  Related: #Film Industry
• 🇺🇸 Record Number of Student Loan Borrowers Are in Delinquency and Default — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Recently released data from the Education Department showed that by the end of last year, 7.7 million borrowers had defaulted on $181 billion in federal student loans.

  Related: #Student Debt
• 🇺🇸 U.S.P.S. Postmaster Says Service Will Be ‘Out of Cash’ in Under a Year — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  The U.S.P.S. leader said at a hearing that the service could run out of cash within a year and asked lawmakers to increase its borrowing limits.

  Related: #Public Services
• 🇺🇸 The Postal Service may be out of cash in 2027 without Congress' help, postmaster says — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  The U.S. Postal Service's leader says it is set to run out of money in less than a year and may have to stop deliveries because of declining mail volume and what USPS sees as burdensome requireme...

  Related: #Government Funding
• 🇺🇸 Blue Owl tipped UK lender into insolvency after discrepancy concerns, FT reports — 17/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Corporate Oversight
• 🇺🇸 I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse. — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Richard Bookstaber warns that what appears to be disparate forces adding risk to our economy are all part of one deeply connected system.

  Related: #Economic Warning
• 🇬🇧 Fallouts and financial woes: inside Heston Blumenthal’s sinking empire — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Current and ex-staff claim demise of London restaurant can be traced back to the departure of chef’s right-hand man</p><p>Dinner by Heston was once one of the world’s most revered restaurants, know...

  Related: #Culinary Industry
• 🇺🇸 FC Barcelona's 100,000-plus members vote for president with club buried under a mountain of debt — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  FC Barcelona is known as being &ldquo;more than a club."

  Related: #Leadership Election
• 🇬🇧 The US World Cup is facing two crises: a financial mess – and ICE | Nellie Pou — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Fewer than 100 days out, host cities haven’t received promised funding, and fears about ICE’s presence are widespread</p><p>On Sunday 19 July, the final match of the 2026 Fifa World Cup will be pla...

  Related: #Immigration Enforcement
• 🇺🇸 The Met Opera’s Desperate Hunt for Money — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  The Met has looked to a foreign government, to new strategies, even to outer space, in its scramble to find money to sustain the country’s largest performing arts organization.

  Related: #Arts Funding
• 🇺🇸 USPS will run out of cash in early 2027 without help: Postmaster general — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will run out of money within a year, Postmaster General David Steiner told The Associated Press this week.  “We have to have a conversation with the American public,” St...

  Related: #Government Services
• 🇺🇸 Who is Kevin Warsh, Trump's pick for Fed chair? — 30/01/2026 [USA]

  The 55-year-old economist had been considered for Fed chair during Trump's first term.

  Related: #Economic Policy, #Federal Reserve, #Monetary Policy