The third part of our strategy is to restart the flow of credit to families and businesses.
And we are working intensively with the auto finance companies to increase the flow of credit to both consumers and dealers.
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Stable house prices would do wonders in reducing loan delinquencies, shoring up the banks' balance-sheets and restoring the flow of credit.
The first priority is to restore some semblance of stability and order in the market and restore the flow of credit.
For instance, excessive regulation can stifle financial innovation, reduce the flow of credit to worthy firms and consumers, and impede economic growth.
Our unprecedented actions to stimulate growth and restart the flow of credit will help create jobs and prosperity within our borders and within yours.
That was also the message the group offered Friday night when the officials came up with a five-point plan to stabilize the markets and restore the flow of credit.
The new Bank of England facilities designed to insure banks against a sudden loss of funding should help the flow of credit and make companies less anxious.
In his annual Mansion House speech, Chancellor George Osborne said the stimulus packages would "support the flow of credit to where it is needed in the real economy".
While new measures must be phased in over time so as not to interfere with the flow of credit, establishing those rules now can be an important source of certainty and confidence.
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"We commit to continue working together to stabilize financial markets and restore the flow of credit, to support economic growth, " G-7 finance ministers and central bankers said in a joint statement Friday evening.
Americans need a healthy flow of credit in our economy, but for too long credit card contracts and practices have been unfairly and deceptively complicated, often leading consumers to pay more than they reasonably expect.
Factors that bode well for the economy today include lower gasoline prices, low interest rates and ongoing improvements in the flow of credit, as well as signs of encouragement in the domestic housing sector.
When financial institutions come to us for direct financial assistance, our government has a responsibility to ensure these funds are deployed to expand the flow of credit to the economy, not to enrich executives or shareholders.
The topic, of course, was monetary policy and whether or not the country was going to raise interest rates further or continue act on measures to cut the flow of credit, or a mix of both.
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The scheme "will support the flow of credit to where it is needed, complementing the MPC's asset purchase programme in easing monetary policy conditions", he said in a letter to Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King.
For example, some believe the government had little choice but to step in and take over the insolvent Fannie and Freddie enterprises, and the TALF program perhaps contributed to the flow of credit during the worst days of the financial crisis.
In the frantic debate about the financial rescue plan put forth by the Treasury and the Fed, the focus has been on de-leveraging financial institutions and strengthening their balance sheets so that the flow of credit in the economy can resume.
At the same time, this exercise in credit allocation (the housing market is getting some help here, too) is depriving small and medium-size businesses of a reliable flow of credit, which, in turn, is having increasingly destructive results on growth, innovation and job creation.
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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).
In some Inland Revenue offices emergency measures had to be introduced to cope with the flow of tax credit claimants.
And the Treasury is continuing to adapt our financial stability plan, helping to facilitate the flow of small credit to small businesses and families.
To repeat the important mantra, when it is hard and expensive for banks to raise finance, the flow of vital credit to the economy can be interrupted and the price of credit can rise - and a weak economic recovery, of the sort we are experiencing, can be snuffed out.
This distorts the flow of capital and bank credit, and allows inefficient enterprises to load banks with their dicey IOUs.
This led to the May 8, 2002 cancelation by Hermes Kreditversicherungs of credit insurance on the Peguform receivables held by suppliers, clogging the flow of goods.
Consequently, it passed a law prohibiting auditors from prescribing any particular accounting treatment of the credit--thereby allowing companies to flow the credit through to earnings all at once or amortize it as they pleased.
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The US federal government has responded to the Chesapeake Bay challenge by imposing a limit on the amount of pollutants that can flow into the Bay and letting states set up credit-trading programs to promote the most efficient reductions possible.
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If inflation continues to decline in the months ahead, as the government expects following four months of monetary and fiscal measures designed to curb credit and cash flow, then the Central Bank will likely keep the Selic rate unchanged barring any surprises in demand in the third quarter.
Money was allowed to flow freely across borders and, in an era of floating exchange rates, the constraints on credit growth were much reduced.
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