What if the financing spigot--either for the automotive companies or for the individual consumer--got turned off?
"There's a major distinction between the situation of an individual consumer and a corporate debtor, " Mr. Singerman said.
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This would help the individual consumer to enjoy the pleasures of fashion without turning into the classic fashion victim.
The individual consumer is reshaping everything from Hollywood to Times Square simply by wanting what she wants when she wants it.
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This also applies if you plan to sell a product or service to a business customer rather than an individual consumer.
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Because once the relationship of individuals to institutions transforms, the benefits to the individual consumer, citizen, patient and student will be profound.
The dynamics of health care would change from being geared toward third parties, such as HMOs, to being geared toward the individual consumer.
Debt is an evergreen topic in financial writing, whether it involves the perks and perils of individual consumer debt, corporate debt or national debt.
So it is still up to the individual consumer to do their homework on their financial advisor, but at least they will know exactly where to look.
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When the evidence about an individual consumer suggests that the consumer is a member of one or more clusters, Baynote recommends products and content that are popular with those clusters.
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Successful companies will marry their deep understanding of their medical science with their total commitment to health outcomes and individual consumer preferences to deliver on the promise of personalized medicine.
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This offered the advantage of a single port of call for the City's big financial conglomerates, but held the risk that they might get unduly caught up in rules to protect the individual consumer.
"Buckets for the Cure" website states, albeit at the very bottom, that individual consumer purchases will not directly increase the total donation -- rather that the money is determined by purchases of buckets by KFC restaurant operators.
Letting individual plants produce consumer items changes nothing if the military simply adds a production line for civilian goods.
But for an individual industrial or commercial consumer, this market provides a perfect framework in which to exploit competitive micro-generation.
But it is interesting and a little sad that men like Ralph Nader, so-called consumer activists, can pin the violence of individual gunmen with serious mental issues on widespread consumer products that millions of well-adjusted, law-abiding citizens consume on a regular basis.
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Each consumer, with individual choice, makes the market more honest and transparent.
It's still working on that: After it buys ad time and space for an individual campaign, Nissan measures consumer attitudes and purchase intentions every week while the ads run.
This involves a deep understanding of consumer value at an individual brand and product level, by retailer.
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The answer is Florida provides a perfect example of how individual state policies drive much of consumer energy prices.
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This has been the best approach with consumer cases where the individual harm is small, but egregious, so a class action was necessary to right this wrong.
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Clearly there is a role for businesses and government to protect citizen and consumer data, but individual users also have a civic responsibility to protect our own devices and the networks we access.
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An Aereo consumer uses a remotely located individual antenna and DVR, so users never have to worry about installing equipment or waiting for the 'cable guy.
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Finally, to be sure you have all the advice you need relevant to your individual situation, call the Citizens Advice consumer helpline 0845 4 04 05 06, who will be able advise you and point you in the right direction.
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The company can always avoid it by offering the consumer the face value of her individual claim.
Whatever you do and whatever kind of taxpayer you are (business, individual or charity), be a good consumer when it comes to tax advice.
Universal service funds (USF) are set up by levies on telecoms in individual countries, which are then used to increase consumer access based on criteria such as income distribution, rural and urban population ratios, literacy and geography.
Thus, the recession is likely to continue to be felt at the individual employee level, with long-term implications for consumer spending.
General governmental final consumption expenditures on individual goods and services consist of outlays of government institutions on consumer goods and services intended for personal consumption.
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