The consumer not only lacks for nothing, but also is paying down debt or building up personal savings.
Keith has been doing just the reverse: paying down debt, a bad strategy for 2007.
You can act like what people are doing now, which is saving more, paying down debt.
Management has also used its cash generation to improve its balance sheet by paying down debt.
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It is paying down debt by selling a titanium dioxide business, as well as through operating cash flow.
Paying down debt will save you money in the long term, as well as help your credit score.
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But today, many people are busy paying down debt or saving for retirement.
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Short-term gigs can help you meet specific goals like paying down debt or creating an emergency fund.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies is warning of a decade of pain, following the spending cuts and paying down debt.
Since then, consumers have been paying down debt and reducing this ratio.
But as the economy recovers people are spending less or paying down debt, meaning that the economy is doing anything but overheating.
If investors remain cool, he can probably keep doing what he is doing now: slowly paying down debt and making earnings go up.
Positive behaviors that appear to be now entrenched include saving more in 401(k) plans, paying down debt and taking greater care to invest wisely.
Companies, meanwhile, have been focused on paying down debt, as well as coping with deflation in the domestic economy and competition from cut-price imports.
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Much of Europe remains mired in recession, therefore the best solution of paying down debt through growth in income is not yet on the horizon.
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When I bought CCK stock it was clear the catalysts were already working, because the company had already sold assets and was paying down debt.
Individuals should try to improve their personal credit ratings, such as by paying down debt, and locking into attractive financial terms for refinancing or new purchases.
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And Mr Brown stressed investment now was crucial to returning the economy to growth and to reducing unemployment, itself vital to paying down debt on schedule.
The main difference and the predominant reason for the current EUR bid market is the perception that the ECB is actually paying down debt on its balance sheet.
And if people get money back into their pockets, do you not want them saving it or paying down debt first before they start spending money into the economy?
Taxing to pay down debt will see debt levels decline as well as GDP levels, so paying down debt amidst a receding economy will leave the nation no better off.
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You can also use a site like www.creditkarma.com to get your free credit score and see how various actions like paying down debt or closing an account would affect it.
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After a brief flirtation with paying down debt in the first couple years after the recession, Americans resumed piling up debt, and debt levels reached a new high in the second quarter of 2012.
"They are constantly looking at surplus cash and evaluating various options, including the option of buying back their own shares, paying down debt and looking at a full range of potential acquisitions out there, " he says.
The allure for issuers, including hundreds of municipal bodies, is lower interest rates than typical long-term bonds, and the ease of paying down debt if they build up a surplus, by simply taking part in the auction themselves.
In January, the head of the independent UK Statistics Authority was moved to write publicly about a television broadcast the prime minister had made, suggesting the government was "paying down debt", when of course the truth is that debt is going up.
He will pledge to use the money raised by selling off the government's bank shares for paying down debt (an announcement designed to turn up the heat on the coalition who dream of using the money to pay for share giveaways or tax cuts).
While interest in a Mosaic solar investment will be taxable, the interest saved from paying of a car loan or credit card debt is saved from after-tax money, and so is essentially tax free, which makes paying down debt at interest rates of 4% more more clearly more attractive than the 4.5% on offer from Mosaic.
Any money left over from that 20% pot can go toward paying down your debt.
They're saving and they're paying down their debt, which is what they should be doing.
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