Critics like Elizabeth Warren believes that there would be fewer complains if the credit card industry clearly disclosed how its business works, particularly when it comes to the minimum monthly payment. If people knew that the cost of minimum month

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2008年

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to television. People often talk about life imitating art. But over the past few months, how many times have you talked about the news out of Washington and somebody said, this is so House Of Cards? Well, the fifth and latest

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

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Tonight on Frontline. The average American family has eight (0% for life on transfer balances. ) credit cards. Plastic money have become both a necessity and a ticket to a better life. (Hawaii, yeah! ) A credit card is an extraordinary, unbelievably

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2007年

In 1996 another important Supreme Court decision open the door to bigger profits for the credit card industry and raft a new complaints from their customers. That decision Smiley.V Citibank. much like the Marquette decision before it. lifted the sta

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According to McKinley, the key to understanding how credit cards are marketed lies in the great digital revolution, the amassing of data on American consumers. Well, there is a gold mine of information residing out there in these databases by the co

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He might be feeling the pinch If you watch the news in Britain or look at a British newspaper at the moment, a term you are more than likely to come across is 'credit crunch'. It has become a bit of a buzzword , but what does it mean? Well, it's a

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 Take Away English

今天我们要讲的习惯用语都包括table这个词。它最普通的意思是桌子。第一个习惯用语是: lay all your cards on the table。Lay可以解释放、搁;cards是纸牌,所以从字面意思来解释,lay all your cards on

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By Barry Wood Washington 08 April 2008 The International Monetary Fund Tuesday said the turmoil in world credit markets that began with rising home loan defaults in the United States is not over and losses could hit $945 billion as the impact spreads

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(四月)

Facing Business Challenges at Hallmark Cards Sending the Right Message to Employees One of Hallmark's sympathy cards reads

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Many Americans Are Watching Their Credit Reports By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, August 19, 2005 I'm Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Economics Report. More and more Am

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Changes in the Credit Card Industry By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, July 08, 2005 I'm Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The credit card was a revolution

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Hallmark Produces Greeting Cards for Jobless People Many Americans are getting what are known as pink slips these days. Theyre losing their jobs because of plant closings, the move of operations overseas, downsizing of companies workforces, or someti

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: So in the final season of the hit Netflix series House Of Cards, Francis Underwood is dead, and the spotlight now turns to Claire Underwood, the first woman president of the United States. She's played by Robin Wright. (SOUNDBITE

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Amendment to Letter of Credit 修改信用证 (1) Dear Sirs, Letter of Credit No.3524 issued by the Bank of New South Wales has duly arrived. On perusal, we find that transhipment and partial shipment are not allowed. As direct steamers to your port

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Standard and Poor's Ratings Services announced Monday that the United States continues to have a AAA [Triple-A] credit rating, but the rating agency lowered its long-term credit outlook for the U.S. government. SP cited U.S. budget deficits and gover

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The credit rating agency Standard Poor's has downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time ever from the country's elite AAA status to AA-plus, with a negative outlook. In a statement late Friday, SP said it made the move because the deficit-r

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A major financial services company says that Italy faces a significant chance of having its credit rating cut soon, but that it has no plans to downgrade France's top credit standing. Fitch Ratings said Tuesday it is confident that the 17-nation Euro

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Standard Poors has cut Italy's credit rating, citing weak economic growth and political uncertainty. The credit rating agency cut Italy's rating one notch Monday - from A+ to A. SP said the country's shaky coalition government and differences in parl

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress are engaged in an intense rush to settle on a plan to raise the countrys borrowing limit beyond the current total of more than $14 trillion. It is an effort aimed at averting a possible default on the countrys

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