Just as it costs less to buy something with cash than it does to buy it on credit, it costs society less to pay for its government upfront.
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Building cards into the handsets of Japan's mobile-phone users, who are ever eager to experiment with new tricks, seems a good way to get them to buy more on credit.
The, The cost incurred to buy Credit Default Swap protection on corporate bonds from climbed to the highest level this month.
All this is going on as Lewis strikes deals to buy credit card company MBNA (nyse: KRB - news - people ) and a stake in China Construction Bank.
And he said that Apple, through its iTunes and Apple stores, had access to a hundred and twenty-five million credit cards, which would make it easy for consumers to buy books on impulse.
We didn't discover until after it was too late that there weren't enough provisions focused on accountability of the funds, as well as mandates to ensure banks didn't sit on the cash to buy other banks but instead used it to open up the credit lines.
Credit also was used to buy stocks on margin, greatly increasing the market's volume and volatility.
Here the fund was pretty explicit - the Treasury should buy private bonds to help ease the credit constraints on UK businesses (something Mr Osborne and even Chancellor Darling talked about - but has still not happened).
That would put a damper on the easy credit many Americans have accessed to buy homes and other big-ticket items.
Borrowers with 10% to 19% equity in their home usually have to buy private mortgage insurance, whose cost varies based on many factors, including their credit score.
On the Smart wireless system in the Philippines the recipient can use the credit to buy things or get folding currency.
These devices range from the inventory trackers that drivers use to touch base with logistics centers, or mobile credit card scanners that are increasingly popping up at shops to allow customers to buy on-the-spot rather than lugging shopping carts into check-out lines.
Passengers on the city's 8, 500 vehicles will be able to buy tickets by swiping a credit, debit or charge card by a reader.
Passengers on the city's 8, 500 vehicles will be able to buy tickets by swiping a credit, debit or charge card by an NFC (near field communication) reader.
But because they've had so much - so many problems and so many defaults and so many foreclosures go on, that even people with perfect credit today are having a tough time borrowing the money to buy a house that they can afford.
Just as a poor credit risk has to pay banks a higher interest rate on loans, so a company or government that is a poor credit risk has to pay a higher yield on its bonds in order to entice investors to buy them.
All of this is having an effect on the price of your home or the ability of someone to buy your home because they can't get credit easily.
When you buy a product on Amazon.com with your credit card, the items you purchased are now tied to your account and can be used to predict what you might like in the future.
Customers can opt to be on the pay as you go program (which the Tax Day promotion will apply to) where they buy email credits in advance, much like postage stamps (one credit is used per email address on their list), or on the monthly subscription program.
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