Some young adults have trouble with credit cards and view the credit limit as an invitation to spend what they consider to be their money.
The surge in U.S. consumer credit supports the view that economic activity is gathering momentum in the country.
In recent years Congress increased the unified credit with a view of subjecting fewer estates to the Federal estate tax.
"From a credit point of view it's a new injection of capital, and you've got to welcome that, " said Raymond.
So I did mention the Columbian situation in my article because I wanted to give credit to that view that says we shouldn't deal with kidnapping because the consequences are so bad.
We'll discuss Senator Kennedy's terrorism-related argument later, but suffice it to say, he does not appear to grant any credit to the view that, like the Taliban, Saddam Hussein was on the wrong side--that we were not dealing with him in a vacuum.
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It is not surprising that investors and credit-rating agencies view the prospect of a hung parliament with alarm, fearing that the lack of firm leadership will delay fiscal retrenchment.
It is part of a drive to force banks to take a tougher view of credit worthiness, and to slow industrial expansion in sectors such as steel and cement which are driving up inflation and threatening growth.
Buyout firms realized that, in view of the credit crisis, they were overpaying for Sallie Mae and United Rentals and tried to wiggle out.
On this view, providing cheap credit to small businesses could never create a recovery, and the flow of credit to these businesses will only start to gush as and when the economy is independently recovering (perhaps, the likes of Vince Cable would say, when government increases its own spending on infrastructure - or when Britain's customers in the eurozone start to spend again).
My view is that talking a credit card company out of screwing you should not be a taxable event.
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Markit, for example, gathers information from a large collection of financial services companies to provide an independent view on the value of credit default swaps.
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Going back to the entrepreneurial concepts and existing businesses so often in need of credit, the irony of the Keynesian view that governments must spend us out of recession is that as governments have no resources, their spending naturally subtracts from the available pool of capital that would otherwise migrate toward businesses, and in reaching businesses, boost employee pay.
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The first article approaches the credit crunch from the banks' point of view.
Every photo and video we upload, everything we browse and purchase online, every web page we view, our online banking and credit card transactions, every connection we make on Facebook or LinkedIn are all pieces of data we are generating.
But she added her firm continued to view Spain as "a much stronger credit than other stressed eurozone countries".
Until the credit squeeze, Europeans could afford to take a relaxed view of an American slowdown.
During the credit boom of the early 1990s and 2000s the conventional view was that it did not matter.
Still, concern is already mounting that the new agency will take an overly restrictive view of permissible products, limiting access to credit and curbing good as well as bad innovation.
Others lenders were willing to extend higher amounts of credit than the company was seeking, but in our view, the debt to equity ratio they were being offered was not healthy for the company, and not something that Hercules would support in either a bull or bear market.
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As a result, many people no longer think of credit, debit, or prepaid as a service: people view payment cards as objects, with all of the iconic power that an object has when it becomes so ubiquitous.
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Bank computer systems were developed around products, not around customers, so getting a view of a customer across car loans, mortgages, credit cards, checking accounts, savings, and CDs is difficult.
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Credit for this (or blame, depending on your point of view) goes to the Bubble Economy of the late 1980s, when greater Tokyo was worth more than the entire state of California.
My own view is that in the end President Barack Obama will get credit for this compromise.
Also, applicants can currently view information about their family members when they obtain their own credit file.
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The extent of the damage is only beginning to come to the surface, but one thing is for sure: by the time all the dust settles, Americans will have a very different view about our financial system and the risks associated with excessive credit.
In my view, this is all the more reason for women to maintain credit cards in their own names throughout their marriage, rather than wait until divorce is on the horizon and scramble to establish credit then.
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Mr Spitzer's office, meanwhile, is looking into whether Gotham Partners Management Company, an American hedge fund, took positions in credit derivatives to create the impression that companies on which it held a bearish view were in financial danger.
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