Tim Harris
Personal Finance 201
February 25, 2005
Global Credit Availability:
In today's world of personal finance and economics, with the global perspective being the primary focus. Corporations, just like individuals, are looking at expanding their horizons and saving or making as much profit as they can. How do they accomplish this gigantic and often expensive proposition? The answer to this is through credit. However I poise a question to everyone. Is the ease of which to receive credit today a hindrance and detriment to all of us, or is it the answer we have all been looking for? I will show you both sides of this situation and you are the judge.
The term credit according to the 1992 issue of New Webster's Dictionary is; a transfer of goods, etc?in confidence of future payment, to enter on the credit side of an account; to procure credit or honor to ("Credit"). The term domestic credit in the Dornbusch Microeconomics book is the monetary authority's holdings of claims on the public sector ? government debt ? and on the private sector ? usually loans to banks ("Domestic Credit"). According to our Personal Finance book;
"Consumer credit dates back to colonial times. While credit was originally a privilege
of the affluent, farmers came to use it extensively. No direct finance charges were imposed; instead, the cost of credit was added to the price of goods? All economists now recognize consumer as a major force in the American economy? To paraphrase an old political expression, as the consumer goes, so goes the U.S. economy (164)."
These terms all mean one thing, as we the public, government, and businesse ...