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According to data collected by Experian, one of the three major credit reporting companies, San Antonio tops the list of cities with the highest average credit card debt.
An increasing number of federally insured banks are on the government's "problem" list as a result of the worsening credit crisis in the United States.
Some credit apps may demand a list of customers and other financial information. (Examples of credit applications can be found at the Credit Research Foundation).
But it generated a long list of consequences, including massive credit expansion, large local government borrowing, asset bubbles, potential nonperforming loans and overcapacity in some infrastructure areas.
On the other hand, access to credit ranked pretty highly on a list of political issues that small business owners believe will have a big impact on their companies in 2012, according to a new survey by Manta, an online business directory and network.
Gordon is luring more energy clients with such services as an online exchange where refiners can establish fuel prices in real time, rather than send out a price list once daily, and can verify the credit status of potential customers.
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They destroyed AIG, where the economic consequences alone from the unraveling of credit default swaps would have contaminated a long list of banks, brokerage houses, even commercial real estate operators and private investors.
Credit researcher CreditSights has a "takeout ten" list of companies it expects will be bought.
But it went on to list a litany of headwinds from job losses and lost wealth to tight credit.
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The list of culprits for the woes afflicting banks includes bankers' pay, credit ratings, ill-prepared boards, sleepy supervisors, accounting regimes, flawed risk models and Alan Greenspan.
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To his credit, he did list at the outset "literally dozens of reasons, " including his Morvillo connection, why he might be biased.
For example, at Sun Valley ski area in Idaho, there's an official lift ticket exchange program that lets you trade in a "downhill" day for a long list of options including a massage, ice skating and lunch or a shopping credit.
Furthermore, in addition to the clogged credit markets, investors had to contend with yet another laundry list of discouraging economic news, sending the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note down to 3.69%, from 3.77%, Wednesday.
Furthermore, in addition to the clogged credit markets, investors had to contend with yet another laundry list of discouraging economic news, sending the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note down to 3.66%, from 3.77%, Wednesday.
"There's a whole list of things I want to write about, " says Alison Kingsley, vice president at a credit-derivatives firm and lecturing professor within Yale's political science department.
"Moving back in with the parents isn't 'plan A' on any college grad's list, but the reality is that it may be a necessity, " says Gail Cunningham of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.
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