As Stephanie Pomboy, publisher of the newsletter MacroMavens, has pointed out, government transfers like stimulus spending and tax credits masked the effects of diminishing credit for a while.
The casino business has been struggling as consumers continue to curb spending due to the U.S. housing downturn, diminishing credit, rising food costs and recession worries.
The ratings are "stable," but "their 'distance-to-downgrade' has in all cases substantially diminished," the credit ratings agency said.
And the impact of great teaching is not diminished in credit recovery programs.
Power companies sued, saying the law diminished the credits' value.
For example, if you fail to pay a credit card right now, it could diminish your credit score, which could make it harder to get a job right out of college, or it could make it harder to get an apartment, or it could cost you thousands of dollars extra in interest when you get a mortgage.
We will give a diminishing, fractional credit (1/2, ¼, 1/8 etc ) for clicks generated up to six degrees away from your original link.
Bowing in part to fears that tougher requirements would diminish the credit needed to revive a sluggish global economy, officials gathered in Basel, Switzerland, are trying to strike a compromise over a set of new international banking standards initially proposed in December.
His wealth diminished by the credit crunch, Abramovich oversaw a series of spending cuts.
The plausibility of the Anglo-Saxon model, with its reliance on financial services and light-touch regulation, has been diminished by the credit crisis and recession.
