Mr Bush is suspected of misusing of a government credit card and importing explosive devices without a permit.
Ordinarily, they'd be using a government credit card to do these things.
Just as a poor credit risk has to pay banks a higher interest rate on loans, so a company or government that is a poor credit risk has to pay a higher yield on its bonds in order to entice investors to buy them.
The effects of a downgraded credit rating for the government are similar to a lower personal credit score.
As for credit-card costs to the government, a Treasury Department agency handles all government credit-card transactions and negotiates costs.
By 1989 a government sponsored micro credit bank had 2.7 million rural savings accounts and 6.4 million loans to 1.6 million borrowers.
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The company reported a loss in the second quarter due to an increase in credit defaults at a time when the government is keeping credit tight to check inflation.
They reveal discussions about how the credit guarantee scheme - a government scheme created in 2008 to help get credit to small and medium-sized businesses - would "allow Libor to fall quicker" than it otherwise would.
Federal tax credit: The federal government offers a 30% investment tax credit on the cost of the system after rebates. (The credit is higher in Denver, for example, because there is no state or utility rebate.) To claim the full credit, your tax bill must be bigger than the credit.
If the government has a lower credit score, every American will pay a higher price.
When an individual, company or government has a good credit rating, we are saying that we trust they will keep their promise to pay off their debts in the future.
Mr Hoban noted that a wider government review of the consumer credit industry was already being carried out, and said that a cap on interest rates would be considered "properly and carefully" as part of the review.
Would it matter to taxpayers offended by the practice whether the reward came in the form of a government stipend or a tax credit?
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Only now has the government set up a credit scheme for ordinary small farmers, who cannot get bank loans, because the constitution bans them from pledging their land as surety.
Some say a tax credit that needlessly spends government money will only hurt homebuyers.
Through a combination of credit schemes and government direction, he aims to gather small businessmen together into groups with more clout.
In August Brazil's trade and industry minister Fernando Pimentel unveiled tax breaks, cheap credit and a misconceived government preference for buying local.
States vary on how they set death taxes, but most limit their take to whatever is allowed as a credit by the federal government.
It recently renewed a standby credit facility for the government, although it is frustrated that the government has missed a series of target dates for the sale of key state assets.
The markets apparently regard me as a worse credit risk than the government of the world's eighth largest economy - largely because individuals have a sorrier history in general of repaying what they owe than the public sectors of first-rank developed economies.
And rightfully so, considering that federal investigators had only discovered the kickback scheme conspiracy by happenstance while investigating a local government employee named Nathaniel Ham for largely unrelated crimes at a local credit union where he served as a member of the board of directors.
That is partly an acknowledgement by many of them that the government deserves credit and partly a tactical calculation.
But government plans to test a new universal credit - which combines several benefits into one payment - have been delayed.
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The most recent development took place last week when Repsol diverted the course of a shipment of natural gas to Argentina, claiming it did not receive a letter of credit from the Argentine government.
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As I explain in this paper, credit derivatives are merely a financial tool that can be used by those exposed to credit risk, say a default by the Greek government or General Electric, to share that risk with others.
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The ratings companies have also rewarded the government's efforts with a string of credit-rating upgrades.
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China's government spent a lot on infrastructure when the credit crunch struck its customers in the West.
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Guided by Mr Tremonti, author of a book foreshadowing the credit crunch, the government has embraced Sarkozyite ambiguity.
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He places some of the blame for the meltdown in the credit markets on a failure of government oversight.
Credit ratings for Dubai-owned companies now reflect this lesson, based on a fundamental credit outlook, not an implicit government backstop.
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