My motto is, if you're going to fail, you may as well fail spectacularly.
It appears that former New Jersey Senator and Governor Jon Corzine lives by the same motto. Corzine, who for now is the CEO of MF Global MF, has to be living out a Halloween nightmare today, as his company filed for bankruptcy.
As Benzinga reported earlier this morning, MF Global filed for bankruptcy protection after seeing its stock price drop 70 percent since August. This disaster was brought on because the firm was heavily invested in the European sovereign debt market, which got absolutely rocked this year. Reports indicate that the company had invested nearly $6 billion in the market, which qualifies Corzine for one giant "oopsie".
At the time of the filing, MF Global was worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 billion dollars. Shockingly enough, this staggering sum barely qualifies as one of the top ten bankruptcies of all time. Here's the rundown on the twenty biggest bankruptcies of all time, according to
bankruptcydata.com
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- Washington Mutual went bankrupt on 09/26/08, with assets of $327 billion
- WorldCom went bankrupt on 07/21/02, with assets of $103 billion
- General Motors Corporation went bankrupt on 06/01/09, with assets of $91 billion
- CIT Group went bankrupt on 11/01/09, with assets of $80 billion
- Enron Corp went bankrupt on 12/02/01, with assets of $65 billion
- Conseco went bankrupt on 12/17/02, with assets of $61 billion
- Global MF went bankrupt on 10/31/11, with assets of appx $40 billion
- Chrysler LLC went bankrupt on 04/30/09, with assets of $39 billion
- Thornburg Mortgage went bankrupt on 05/01/09, with assets of $36 billion
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company went bankrupt on 04/06/01, with assets of $36 billion
- Texaco went bankrupt on 04/12/87, with assets of 34 $billion
- Financial Corp. of America went bankrupt on 09/09/88, with assets of $33 billion
- Refco went bankrupt on 10/17/05, with assets of $33 billion
- IndyMac Bancorp went bankrupt on 07/31/08, with assets of $32 billion
- Global Crossing went bankrupt on 01/28/02, with assets of $30 billion
- Bank of New England went bankrupt on 01/07/91, with assets of $29 billion
- General Growth Properties went bankrupt on 04/16/09, with assets of $29 billion
- Lyondell Chemical Company went bankrupt on 01/06/09, with assets of $27 billion
- Calpine Corporation went bankrupt on 12/20/05, with assets of $27 billion
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