Credit scores are assigned based on how an individual pays
back their debts relative to everyone else with a credit history.
Not exact matches
Well, let me
back up what led to the crisis for those countries have they had too much
debt relative to tax receipts.
That is just a little over 4 years, and we can expect a continuation of deleveraging for many years to come - we have a long way to go in order to get
back to the levels of household
debt relative to GDP or Personal Disposable Income (PDI).
PBO analysis suggests if the Finance (private sector) projections turn out as planned, the government will be
back to structural surplus by 2015 and will be in a positive long term fiscal gap position (declining net
debt relative to GDP in face of aging aging demographics).
So lowering the total
debt (in
relative or in nominal terms) and paying
back are mostly separate things.
If it was as easy as giving your money or your stuff to your
relative, then filing bankruptcy to wipe out your
debts, then taking your stuff
back, everyone would do that and no one would ever pay any bills.
Val Petrov, PhD, CFA, As a portfolio manager on the Mortgage -
Backed Securities team, Val concentrates on development and implementation of
relative value models across yield curves (Agency
Debt, Treasuries, Swaps) and Mortgage -
Backed Securities (MBS) products.
As fixed claims grow
relative to equity claims, the economy becomes less flexible, because many are counting on the
debts for which they are creditors to be paid
back at par.
Credit ratings can also speak to the credit quality of an individual
debt issue, such as a corporate note, a municipal bond or a mortgage -
backed security, and the
relative likelihood that the issue may default.