That pushed the balances up higher and made even the minimum payments more expensive.
While the balances were growing, we could live beyond our means, beyond our current income level.
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Profits earned from credit-card balances are captured on the income statement, even though a big chunk of the balances are securitised.
The Card Act stipulates that issuers must apply payments in excess of the minimum to the balances with the highest interest rate.
The balances held in such an account can be fully repatriated.
They used credit cards, but they kept the balances low and would pay them off every time Dan got a bonus payment of a few thousand dollars.
This means that the taxpayer will not have to pay anything on the balances for the time being, but notices of federal tax lien will remain of record against the taxpayer.
Tammy, who had handled the household finances since the day they were married, let the balances on the credit cards creep up, always intending to pay everything off with the coming bonus.
To reduce those balances we must reverse that and live beneath our means, but the higher the balances the more difficult it will be to make much progress beyond servicing the debt.
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They needed money to keep up with their monthly expenses, so Tammy didn't put the bonus towards the balances on credit cards or the equity line and instead put the money toward financing their lifestyle.
Is it better, is it more proper to leave these moneys idly in the balances of banks and building societies, or is it better to use some of them to make good the pension promise of people who were made to join their pension scheme.
However, at least thus far, the markets have managed to cope with having the TAG bank balances instead of the Treasuries that the Fed purchased to create these balances.
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It is a technical impossibility under this peculiar circumstance to predict the liquidity balances desired by the marketplace itself and, thus, inflation.
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The coil is suspended in an external magnetic field and the current running through it adjusted so that the attraction between the two magnets balances the gravitational force on the suspended mass.
First, there may well be a mismatch in comparing the cash balances of large publicly-traded companies to the indebtedness of the entire corporate sector.
The cybercriminals sharply increased the available balances for those cards and eliminated withdrawal limits on the cards, prosecutors said.
The cyber criminals dramatically increased the available balances for those cards and eliminated withdrawal limits on the cards, prosecutors said.
Punitive taxes can drop the potential reward below the point where it balances the perceived risk.
It finished 2012 with the highest checking balances, the highest annualized checking growth and the lowest attrition in five years.
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Ervin says the comment period "balances the need" for the Energy Department to carry out its responsibilities while giving the states a voice.
Let this Congress be the Congress that finally balances the budget.
The European economy remains troubled even as structural reforms are making countries become more competitive (note the recent improvements in the current account balances of the countries of the periphery).
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With journalists digging for dirt and consultants hyping themselves to the heavens, there is a pressing need for a level-headed account of the consulting business which balances the industry's glaring failures against its successes.
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Its main argument was that the checks and balances in the constitution are designed for a four-year presidential term and that an erosion of the separation of powers under Mr Uribe would be aggravated by a third term.
The exhibition balances a contextual presentation of one or two projects with a sense of the range of Michelangelo's architectural work.
On this assumption, the net budgetary cost roughly balances the trade benefits.
First, our sales have been increasing and that naturally drives the receivables balances higher.
Officials said they were operating in stand-by mode, so could not identify the account balances of customers.
This total would include the sum balances of a traditional IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k) and defined contribution plans.
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