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They said that the borrowers had behaved badly, when the real problem was that the international system had created a veritable "house of cards," in which a mountain of short-term inter-bank loans could suddenly be reversed, causing economic collapse in debtor countries.
Loans for education and car purchases are now also possible, and 2% of households have credit cards, which is obviously still low compared to 75% in the United States, but there were no such households just five years ago.
Although debit cards remain far more common, banks like China Merchants Bank have been aggressive in issuing real credit cards.
However, outstanding credit on cards is growing, more than quadrupling year on year in 2004, to 0.18% of GDP, according to the consulting firm McKinsey.
If they don’t, and instead move to follow through on their threats, they may well discover that India, too, has cards to play.
For just 300 rupees more, the reporters could print out – and start using – copies of anyone’s unique identity cards.Years of massive data breaches in the US (affecting companies such as Target, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and Intel, as well as the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management), and reports of companies such as Facebook and Google handing over personal data to developers and other third parties, have led to little concrete change.
For just 300 rupees more, the reporters could print out – and start using – copies of anyone’s unique identity cards.
But resigned acquiescence in whatever Putin’s regime chooses to do would only confirm it in its belief that it now holds all the cards.
Elsewhere, billions of people lack bank accounts and credit cards, and in many developing countries, consumer-protection laws do not extend to goods purchased online.
Now is the time for the US to put its cards on the table.
The instruments of publicity on the one hand and of market and opinion research on the other are today the high cards in the games whose winnings are wealth (for example, market-share) and high station (for example, elected office.)
Finally, a remarkable plan to enroll every Indian adult in a program using fingerprint identification as a substitute for bank debit cards will allow more efficient distribution of funds to poor villagers and the urban poor.
But this makes implementing open trade policies all the more crucial, because they are the best tools available to compensate for the bad cards which nature sometimes deals out.
My suggested answer is different: the millions of innocent bystanders who played no role in creating a financial house of cards but who suffer when it falls.
Thus, they did not need to take additional steps to acquire specifically UK citizenship; nor did their children, whose arrival was recorded only on paper landing cards.
An administrative blunder seems to have resulted in the destruction of the old landing cards, which had been stored in crates somewhere at the Home Office.
But Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other leading members of his party have played these cards completely wrong in this election cycle.
And, as the Global Findex report, using data from India, shows, leakage of funds for pension payments declines sharply when the payment is made with smart cards instead of cash.
Only 5% of people over the age of 15 in China had mortgage debt, and 8.2% had credit cards; the figures for the US were 33.4% and 61%, respectively.
In New York, de Blasio’s IDNYC initiative is providing free government-issued identification cards for all residents – including the homeless, undocumented immigrants, and former convicts – so that marginalized groups can make use of the city’s resources.
Universal banks offer deposit accounts, credit cards, mortgages, business loans, and other products.
Uber depends on the previous diffusion of cell phones, cars, and credit cards.
In short, Bahrain’s rulers have many cards to play – and the international response to the uprising seems likely to strengthen the regime further.
The house of cards has now collapsed.ampnbsp;
If they play their cards right, he will have to deal them in.
Losses are spreading from sub-prime to near-prime and prime mortgages, commercial mortgages, and unsecured consumer credit (credit cards, auto loans, student loans).
Moreover, the Chancellor’s vehemence has reminded the EU as to who really holds the cards within the Union, while at the same time providing a reasonable solution for crisis management.
Recognizing this disconnect, the PBOC has been working vigorously to prevent further misunderstandings by designing policies that will safeguard exchange-rate stability, while taking care not to transmit any signal that monetary easing is in the cards.
A democratic, pro-Western Middle East is not in the cards.
Lines will need to be drawn, but wise leaders will focus on cooperative diplomatic solutions, playing military cards to the minimum extent possible – and perhaps repeating to themselves the AA serenity prayer before creating expectations that they cannot meet.
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