Tapping into old family connections, he convinced farmers to sell their land to him on credit.

FORBES: Pay Dirt

The third-party call centers it had hired used high-pressure sales tactics to sell consumers add-on features to their credit cards but misled them about the benefits.

FORBES: Obama's Consumer Protection Agency Strikes: $210M Fine For Capital One

They produce credit reports on you from their files and sell them to prospective creditors and employers.

FORBES: Manage Your Credit

One of the most common styles of attack on small businesses targets credit-card information that a hacker can sell or use to make fraudulent purchases.

WSJ: Hackers New Target: Small Firms With Lax Security

As the West's guard has dropped, sensitivity about selling militarily-relevant equipment and manufacturing know-how to the USSR has also given way to a feverish competition to sell the Soviet Union virtually whatever it wishes to buy, often on excessively generous credit terms to boot.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: US-Soviet Relations

On top of the 30% federal tax credit, there are renewable certificates that solar-power owners can sell on a market that's similar to the carbon-emissions trading market.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The bank is exploring a sell-off of its branches and credit-card business in America, to refocus on corporate banking there.

ECONOMIST: Business this week

Private farmers feel pressured from all sides threatened with expropriation, heavily dependent on credit and subject to regulations that, they complain, force them to sell below cost.

ECONOMIST: Venezuela