Article: Citron presse: American municipalities. (bankruptcy of Orange County, California)

OF ALL places, opulent and enterprising Orange County--the garden sprawl to the south of Los Angeles where the Californian Dream has been delivered in abundance to 2.3m residents--is the last to expect talk of a municipality defaulting on its debt. Yet that has become an eerie possibility since December 6th, when Orange County was forced to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 9 (the public sector's equivalent to Chapter 11) of the Bankruptcy Code. The move came just days after the county's treasurer, Robert Citron, admitted that Orange County's $7.7 billion investment pool--managed on behalf of 187 local communities and agencies--had lost $1.5 billion since the start of the ...

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