The legislation also included more narrowly targeted provisions, such as the tax credit for buying the motorcycles and the relatively new tax credit for biofuels derived from algae.
Carlyle has thrown itself into the area of credit, buying up huge swathes of collateralised loan obligations and taking a majority stake in Claren Road, a credit hedge fund.
As with the residential market, credit for buying commercial property has tightened.
Credit recommends buying supplies or products from names you trust.
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Somebody decided to change the definition of credit and made consumers feel that buying on credit was less like a high-interest loan and more like an increase in disposable income.
Greene became a billionaire by buying credit default swaps on subprime mortgage-backed bonds as housing crashed.
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He later became a billionaire by buying credit default swaps on subprime mortgage-backed bonds as housing crashed.
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Whether opening credit cards, buying cars, applying for mortgages, or taking out student loans, all Americans should have access to complete, concise information.
Didn't lots of people try piling up debt on credit cards and buying houses they couldn't afford in hopes of solving all their financial problems?
In recent years, it has turned its focus on building credit cards (buying MBNA Corp. earlier this year, for example), private banking, capital markets and other nondeposit intensive businesses.
Another criticism is that the ECB has not done more to ease credit conditions by buying government and corporate bonds outright, as the Bank of England and the Fed have done.
Again many of the IT guys themselves are just whipping out the credit card and buying SolarWinds products vs. going through the normal lengthy IT procurement process that has historically marked IT purchases.
Just as the 1950s boom in car sales was fuelled when car companies lengthened the credit period on buying new cars from 24 to 36 months, so the decline in personal saving in recent years has much to do with the ease of borrowing.
Soupy thick pessimism and dire news coverage are often a clarion call for contrary-minded investors, and analysts at two Swiss banks, Credit Suisse and UBS, see a buying opportunity in BA. Credit Suisse has BA as its top airline pick, telling clients that it believes shares could climb to 285 pence on the FTSE, and UBS reckons BA shares could jump to 295 pence.
More recent ideas include managing distressed power stations and buying delinquent credit-card debts from banks.
By some accounts shoppers came out in droves, spending more and buying on credit at higher rates than recent years.
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Some AAAs and some credit unions offer car buying services as well.
Whether selecting a mortgage payment plan, seeking a credit report, or buying a car, staying well-informed and vigilant can help citizens make prudent choices.
As the use of plastic rather than cash becomes increasingly widespread, shoppers are comfortable with the idea of using credit to boost their buying power.
An insurance company, for example, could hone its underwriting expertise and deliver this as a web service, while buying in credit-rating, human-resource or news services from other providers.
Some investors infamously did make money from betting against American subprime mortgages, but their real achievement was to find a way of doing so, by buying up credit-default swaps that paid out when mortgage-backed securities soured.
So in the end, the FACT Act may steer consumers towards buying more credit monitoring services, as they become more aware of the credit risks and limitations of looking at one credit report per year, says Jim Bruene, publisher of the Online Banking Report, an industry newsletter.
These three sets of policy tools--lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying longer-term securities--have the common feature that each represents a use of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet, that is, they all involve lending or the purchase of securities.
That's because selling a credit swap is equivalent to buying the corporate bond on margin.
Think about walking through the mall, your credit card provider through your buying habits knows you buy your wife jewelry.
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After 18 months of credit tightening and new home buying restrictions, we may be at the end of the cycle, and they are likely to be much different.
The doomsday scenario: Companies will stop buying credits, credit prices will drop, and companies that own credits may have to write down the value of their current investments.
Otherwise, the buying and selling of credit derivatives has been completely invisible to the investing public.
How can you tell if the stuff you're buying even qualifies for the credit?
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