In Detroit bankruptcy, what will happen to DIA?

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With the dire straits that Detroit finances are in... if this idea is EVER implemented... Detroit would be a likely candidate. But that's a big IF...

Dire straits, indeed, Gistok.

My honest hope is that this guy doesn't get a hold of some smaller museum that's hard up for money and has an important piece or two. May the Gods have pity on them if they ever shack up to this concept.

You must love Fresno's outcome, Baselinepunk, the way you keep trying to set Detroit up for the same. No, the AAM doesn't like talking about that one, beyond a tut-tut.

Start selling her assets and see how fast bondholders move to force bankruptcy, they are worth more unsold then sold.

Uh, pretty hard for anyone to force bankruptcy on an entity that's got the cash and a willingness to pay its bills, Richard. Just saying. Of course, no one is seriously talking sale here, despite its frequent appearance as a strawman.

Well, good luck getting the City of Detroit to ignore their museum experts and start listening to a loner with a website.

The long version was clearly too much, noise, so here's a condensed one: Museum experts tell Detroit to get lost, making the AAM happy, or loner with website* tells Detroit to get whole, making residents, union members, bondholders, museum-goers [[yes), artists, writers, etc., etc., etc. happy. Go ahead, keep backing the loser!


*and finance PhD earned with experimental research supervised by Economics Nobel laureate