While the payment process is not easier than using a plain Jane credit card, it is certainly simple enough to provide a viable alternative.
American International Group AIGG) diversified from plain insurance into credit derivatives.
The affable, scruffy young man with the guitar -- alternately a victim of identity theft or plain old bad credit -- has sung his way into our hearts and minds.
Fortunately, there's a solution hidden in plain sight: a tax credit for health insurance.
The tendency to discount the future is plain when you consider the credit spree of the last decade.
The Sun argued that "it's just plain wrong" to strip tax credits from the lowest-paid.
It focuses on plain-vanilla lending like mortgages, credit cards and corporate loans, and like JPMorgan emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis.
Mr. Taubman, 75, a Detroit shopping center magnate credited with transforming plain suburban shopping centers known as strip malls into playgrounds for the rich with designer shops like Yves St. Laurent, Ralph Lauren and Louis Vuitton, bought Sotheby's in 1983 and took it public.
"We were all searching for things in the '60s, and every single aspect of American life was changing at light speed," says McNamara, whose producing credits include "In Plain Sight" and "Jericho".
These scores can determine whether someone is pitched a platinum credit card or a plain one, a full-service cable plan or none at all.
We need much simpler, plain vanilla instruments such as standardized credit default swaps that are exchange-traded, fully collateralized and guaranteed by a central clearing corporation.
