The U.S. has a virtually unlimited line of credit into the world's savings pool.
They pump trillions of dollars of fresh credit into insolvent banks like embalming fluid into a corpse.
From modest beginnings three decades ago, Yunus has, first and foremost through Grameen Bank, developed micro-credit into an ever more important instrument in the struggle against poverty.
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We are emerging from the worst recession since the second world war, yet we are in danger of making backward-looking laws that will crimp consumer credit into the recovery.
But if it's too dire, he risks sending GM's BBB- credit rating into the junk pile.
Lehman Brothers' demise transformed an already bad situation in the credit markets into a full-scale crisis.
Pension credit takes into account savings and income, and only the poorest retired people qualify to receive it.
Lenders evaluate FICO scores based on a tiered system that divides credit scores into five ranges.
So there is no incentive to shift credit exposure into the insurance company.
There has definitely been, over the last two years, an increase in the credit injected into the Chinese economy.
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The increase will start in 2013 when the Universal Credit comes into force.
Hedge funds also buy the potentially toxic waste that banks create when they bundle credit derivatives into so-called synthetic deals.
He is similarly concerned about the impact of the new Universal Credit paid into a bank account and accessible only online.
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Add a credit downgrade into the mix and it could be a mini-2008 in the works when it comes to market corrections.
And the unification of consumer lenders' jealously guarded proprietorial credit databases into a national whole would remove an important barrier to entry.
Long-term interest rates, for instance, are not set by central bankers, but by credit markets that eventually price credit risk into the price of different debt instruments.
The urgency in the credit markets spilled into Friday as the credit crisis chokes off lending not only in the capital markets but in the main economy.
These cards require you to deposit an amount of money usually equal to the credit limit into a special savings account that the bank can collect any missed payments from.
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Rick was telling me that when that tax credit got into place, the marketing arm of Thompson Creek got busy. (Laughter.) And that's the right -- that exactly what we intended.
Whoever was the GOP nominee was going to have to fight against the legacy of the previous eight years of a Republican president who became highly unpopular because of the Iraq war, administration gaffes such as the handling of Hurricane Katrina, and what turned from a credit crunch into a global economic crisis.
The Fed is trying to prevent the credit crunch from turning into a complete credit freeze.
They plug in the SquareUp credit card reader into their mobile devices and they can magically accept credit card payment.
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Once a simple outsourcing shop that ran bank computers for a fee, ACS has pushed into a dizzying variety of new services, which include scanning credit card applications into computers and storing microfilmed copies of documents in an underground bunker in Mississippi.
All of the interest and late payment penalties charged to the credit card account were consistent with the terms of the credit card agreement entered into between petitioner and the credit card company pursuant to the financing arrangement.
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Your emergency fund is the barrier between you and a slide into credit card debt.
One reason Internet shopping has not caught on is that people are loath to send credit card numbers into the ether.
In February, the Administration expanded its efforts to assist states in translating military training and experience into credit towards professional licensure.
Tilson says he likes the fact that Fairfax piled into credit-default swaps as a hedge against losses on its reinsurance recoverables.
"Markit has been informed of an investigation by the Department of Justice into credit derivatives and related markets, " says spokeswoman Teresa Chick.
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