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In his effort to restore seemingly irreparably damaged relations with the West, Gaddafi has played the oil and gas cards that he holds extremely well.
But, rather than folding their cards, European leaders doubled down.
Putin is so confident that he holds all the cards that he made a point of toning down his usual anti-American bluster.
Of course, there was always a commercial side to Christmas, if only for breeders of poultry and makers of greeting cards.
Hong Kong and Singapore have played their cards astutely.
A well-organized team would collapse like a house of cards, and the hopes for future space research and missile design would be dashed, threatening the country’s security.
And besides, regardless of how long Chancellor Angela Merkel remains in office, it is already clear that German backing for a “transfer union” is not in the cards.
But non-prime borrowers – about one-third of US households – do not have much access to mortgages and credit cards.
The same holds for households, with millions of weaker and poorer borrowers defaulting on mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, student loans, and other forms of consumer credit.
And, while higher-income and wealthier households have a buffer of savings to smooth consumption and avoid having to increase savings, most lower-income households must save more, as banks and other lenders cut back on home-equity loans and lower limits on credit cards.
Paying down debt on credit cards or mortgages also counts as saving – but increases in the value of existing assets like stocks or real estate do not, even though they increase the value of household wealth.
Moreover, the increased availability of credit cards gave Americans a greater ability to dissave, buying goods and services now and paying for them later.
In recent weeks, Maduro has put in place a half-baked plan to stabilize the currency, issuing new bills supposedly backed by the government’s cryptocurrency, which is like building a house of cards on a garbage dump.
A big appreciation in the euro is not on the cards.
Europe will keep talking about the American house of cards, but with a sense of yearning that its dynamism is a trick an ageing Europe can't master.
As long as capital consisted largely of factories, heavy equipment and raw materials, there was little fear that assets could or would move, so governments held all the cards.
The French have always been less likely to go into debt – when they pay with plastic, they tend to use debit cards, drawing on funds they already have, rather than credit cards.
While citizens with so-called “below-poverty-line” cards are eligible for government relief, surveys show that about half of the poor do not have the card – while about one-third of the non-poor do.
India has now overtaken the US as the world’s second-largest telephone market, with 857 million SIM cards in circulation and an estimated 600 million individual users.
Bold, comprehensive reforms of the type proposed by the liberal former finance minister Alexei Kudrin are not in the cards.
A month before the election, only 64% of citizens who had registered had received their voting cards.
India’s wealthy, who are less reliant on cash and are more likely to hold credit cards, are relatively unaffected.
We all depend on people willing to sell to us, buy from us, lend to us, manage our savings, educate our kids, accommodate us at their hotels, feed us at their restaurants, connect us to the Internet, allow us to travel to their countries, pay with credit cards, and afford us the respect that people are normally entitled to.
Consequently, the prospect of entry into the Union provided little incentive to countries for which meeting the stiff criteria was not yet on the cards.
The issues surrounding reform remain controversial and unsettled, but this time, the ministers laid their cards on the table.
Likewise, a society cannot simply imitate the idea of Amazon or eBay unless many of its citizens already have access to the Internet, credit cards, and delivery services.
The Hidden Purposes of High FinanceBERKELEY – No one questions the usefulness of “low” finance: the ability to use checks, banknotes, and credit cards rather than having to cart around chests of silver, scales, and reagents to assay purity, and needing armed guards to protect the silver – and more guards to watch the first set of guards – has obvious efficiencies.
As I pointed out, with the United States and global economy sliding into a severe recession, bank losses would extend well beyond sub-prime mortgages to include sub-prime, near-prime, and prime mortgages; commercial real estate; credit cards, auto loans, and student loans; industrial and commercial loans; corporate bonds; sovereign bonds and state and local government bonds; and losses on all of the assets that securitized such loans.
Russia, meanwhile, seems eager to disengage its military from an intractable situation in Syria, where it has so far played its cards right.
Third, if you plug an unemployment rate of 10% to 11% into any model of loan defaults, you get ugly figures not just for residential mortgages (both prime and subprime), but also for commercial real estate, credit cards, student loans, auto loans, etc.
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