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(42) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2008年

Part 1 Tina's Money Woes Tina的金钱危机 Dialogue Script1 对话原文1 Jason: Whoa! That's a lot of bags! Let me help you. Tina: Thanks. Macy's had a sale I couldn't miss out on. Jason: So this is how you're spending your days now that you're unemployed

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周末,爸爸、妈妈、阿美和丹尼尔全家人一起到超市购物。超市的自动存包柜已经满箱,服务台也不能存包,这下该怎么办呢?一起看看吧! Listen Read Learn Salesperson: What else, Ma'am? Shirley: No, thanks. My husband said:We'd like to pay now. Salesperson: Let

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Many years ago I read that credit cards were the thing of the future. Credit card companies were telling us that plastic would replace cash. Well, this hasnt happened. People are still using notes and coins. The Internet has increased the use of cred

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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

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Today, nearly 144 million Americans have credit cards and they are using their cards like never before, charging 1.5 trillion dollars last year alone. Credit cards have become a central part of the American Economy. I really cant say that I love my c

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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(61) / 评论(0) 分类 Take Away English

The U.S. governments credit rating could be downgraded even further, according to the rating agency that removed the United States from a list of top-tier creditworthy nations. Standard and Poors judgement Days after Standard and Poors made headlines

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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

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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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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(136) / 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(99) / 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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