Banks, for example, worry about their customers divorcing, because divorce causes a change in credit-worthiness.
Data-mining companies say they can judge our credit-worthiness based on that of our friends.
So why is the Italian government's credit-worthiness perceived to be only marginally better than mine.
Only bonds from sovereign governments and blue chip corporations have a better reputation for credit-worthiness than munis.
In addition, of course, as with all credit arrangements, we must be certain of the credit-worthiness of the Soviet Government.
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If those efforts fail and your credit-worthiness is at stake, you might have to hire a consumer lawyer and sue.
Whether the market continues to believe in our credit-worthiness doesn't depend on whether we hike the Medicare age today for retirees decades hence.
Now this vicious contraction of banks' capacity to borrow or fund themselves is exacerbated by the downgrading of their credit-worthiness by ratings agencies.
Many stay-at-home moms have a strong work history, yet the proposed regulations ignore their demonstrated credit-worthiness because of their lack of current market income.
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Among the factors that determine the credit-worthiness of governments are how much they owe, the size and growth rates of the economies they oversee and the inflation rate.
Aside from slashing the club's debt in half, the group's funds would also improve the club's credit-worthiness, which in turn would make Liverpool more attractive for further outside investment.
The growing adoption rates of payment technologies by small-business owners might partially explain why credit demand for working capital from small firms remains stubbornly low, even as their balance sheets and credit-worthiness improve, according to Robb Hilson, head of Bank of America small-business segment.
But even if they were to do that, it leaves unresolved the great British debate - about whether the UK's indebtedness is so great, and the confidence of investors in our credit-worthiness so fragile, that the chancellor dare not cut taxes or increase job-creating infrastructure investment.
The optimists' gloss on all that was that Italy's financial woes are being quarantined - and the rest of the eurozone is galloping towards the kind of fiscal integration that would (at the last) allow the European Central Bank to (in effect) underwrite the credit-worthiness of all member states (see my post, The eurozone's borrowing costs may stay lethally high, for more on this).
But if it was a big bank, and if it was nationalised by a government such as Spain or Italy already perceived by many to have unsustainably large debts, then there could be serious contagion from the credit-worthiness of the bank to the credit-worthiness of the state: there would be an escalation of concern that the relevant government would be unable to repay everything it owes.
Credit worthiness has declined for the so-called center economies of Japan, US and Europe, while it has steadily improved over the last five years in developing countries from Latin America to southeast Asia.
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Curiously, Affirm will use Facebook to verify a user's identity, and it'll also use a wide range of social and location-based data to determine an individual's credit worthiness.
Credit-rating agencies have embarrassing questions to answer about how they judged the worthiness of packages of subprime mortgages and other unconventional instruments.
The idea that you can get these huge loans now, or refinance at no cost - banks are grabbing all the fees that they can, and demanding that your credit worthiness be of such a high status that most people can't qualify.
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