credit restrictions

Credit restrictions are a good idea because people are in a lot of debt.

After the war, the bank struggled under the pressure of the government's changing credit restrictions and exchange controls.

So for this situation to ease we need prices to come down or credit restrictions to ease.

The Government has also imposed consumer credit restrictions.

President Jimmy Carter's credit restrictions, in early 1980, also helped to bring on a recession.

Sales were made to veterans on the "no down payment" terms, prior to government housing credit restrictions being imposed.

On other appliances, terms were less generous and usually subject, like those of other retailers, to government credit restrictions.

The country's economy, he said, had been damaged by five years of Western sanctions, with their punitive trade and credit restrictions, that only recently were ended.

Bankers said they could not produce any academic studies linking tight regulations with credit restrictions, with one exception.

"Suppliers had heightened concerns," he said, "so what they did was very understandable, which was put us under credit restrictions.

He added, "With credit restrictions hampering the consumer sector from spending, it may fall on government spending to add the spark."

In my view, it also means that higher margin requirements and other credit restrictions on funds available for investment should be considered when markets reach dizzying heights.

Some Bush Administration officials have been arguing that the main cause of the credit restrictions is overly zealous restrictions placed by bank examiners.

Chinese inflation has risen at its slowest pace in more than a year, giving the government leeway to further ease credit restrictions to encourage economic growth.

When credit restrictions were imposed during the Korean War and by President Carter in the 1970's, personal savings did rise sharply for a while.

Mr. Greenspan, on the other hand, has blamed the uncertainty following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and credit restrictions imposed by banks for the downturn.

Jackson's attacks on the Second Bank of the United States in 1832 removed credit restrictions on local banks, freeing them to fuel real estate speculation.

President Clinton and his economic advisers have spoken favorably of the idea of reviewing banking regulations to see if relaxing them would reduce credit restrictions affecting small business.

The imposition of credit restrictions in other markets (for example, in Spain in 1989) stimulated the development of the domestic commercial paper market in that country.

Mr. Johnston and Mr. Swank, who also builds apartment complexes, say low-income families will be hardest hit by the new credit restrictions.

The bank also guaranteed 80 percent of Ambiance's bank loans - a significant advantage in a country where the Government has used credit restrictions as a weapon against inflation.

The sugar industry started struggling towards the middle of the 20th century due to several reasons: high cost of production, declining sale prices, credit restrictions, and strikes among workers.

TOUGHER credit restrictions can also be troublesome, particularly for homeowners who bought with easy-to-obtain, no-verification loans, which were popular in the mid-1980's.

The widely anticipated move, designed to stimulate economic growth through increased exports, included the easing of credit restrictions and the provision of increased funds to assist with capital investment.

This can have advantages where credit restrictions on local banks make foreign currency borrowing the only source of finance available or if interest rates are lower than domestic currency loan rates.