Those who have a basic bank account - a no-frills account often used by those with a chequered credit history - or a student account with Lloyds Banking Group receive paper statements at least once every three months.
An overvalued stockmarket, a credit-driven consumer-spending boom and a current-account deficit all point to the same conclusion: that America's expansion is unsustainable.
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This will move the region from a current-account deficit to a surplus, causing the demand for dollars to subside.
If you are investing outside a tax-sheltered account, a diced-up portfolio gives you the maximum opportunity to harvest losses for the tax deductions.
In most 401(k) plans, to move money from a stable-value account into a money-market fund or short-term bond fund, plan participants have to be invested in a riskier option for at least 90 days.
Notably, it had a large current-account deficit and a foreign-debt burden that was rising fast.
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One big difference is that in the 1960s the United States ran a current-account surplus and was a net creditor to the rest of the world.
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The note instructed the would-be recruit to communicate with U.S. handlers via a G-Mail account accessed either from a public Wi-Fi network or an Internet cafe.
If you can plan ahead for education spending, it may make more sense to contribute to a traditional retirement account rather than a college-specific account.
Its foreign-exchange reserves are now four times as large as its short-term foreign debt, and it has a current-account surplus.
Nor is there much worry about a potential nasty side-effect of a booming current-account surplus: rising inflation.
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For years it tried to get the multi-million-a-year account supplying uniforms to McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) North American outlets.
Still, an investment-grade rating is handy if, like India, you run a current-account deficit and hope to attract foreigners to help finance your vast infrastructure needs over the next decade.
Instead of simply looking at a headline price - as they do in a store - the current account shopper needs to sit down with a calculator, a computer, and a considerable amount of time.
In a tax-deferred account like an IRA or a 401(k), carve-ups are irrelevant.
The advantage of a time-dated account is a healthy blend of stocks, bonds and global investments.
The letters will use a mix of messages, including some offering recipients a savings-account feature.
As a result, exports are already growing and Ireland has moved into a current-account surplus.
Public finances were mostly in balance, public debt fell and the region ran a current-account surplus.
Within the next two months it also plans to launch a mobile-account service that features savings and withdrawals.
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This matters, because a country that continually runs a current-account deficit will become ever more indebted to foreigners.
Mr. Chapman has asked brokers to show him only apartments owned by sellers willing to do a foreign-account-to-foreign-account sale.
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It has an inflation rate of less than 1% and a current-account surplus that has reached 15% of GDP.
In reality, China has a current-account surplus, which means that savings must exceed investment, not the other way around.
As a rare example of a big Asian economy with a current-account deficit, it cherishes its role as honest broker.
That is why the country is likely to have a current-account deficit of 5.5% or so of GDP this year.
Other critics of the Japanese meltdown theory suggest the country will only be in danger when it starts running a current-account deficit.
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Even in a country which has run a current-account deficit for 25 consecutive years, deficits of this magnitude should ring alarm bells.
Agreed, a current-account deficit is not necessarily bad: an economy may be borrowing from abroad to finance investment that will lift future growth.
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