Sentences with phrase «more times a debt»

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The study involving about 1000 Facebook users in the US found that those who spent relatively more time on Facebook and had a strong network on social media were more likely to have lower credit scores and more credit card debt compared to those who used it less and had a comparatively weaker network.

The first part of the suggestion comprises of obliging the financial sector to write off a certain (not huge) amount of their bad debt, while also driving down the costs of doing business a little more at the same time.

If you have credit card debt, always pay much more than the minimum to save time and money.

That means more debt on the ledger, which isn't likely to make the House any friends come mid-term election time.

For a retailer with scant discounting and zero debt, Nasty Gal has racked up some seriously drool - worthy numbers: international sales of $ 128 million in 2012, four times higher than the year before; 535,000 Facebook fans; 420,000 Instagram subscribers; 68,000 Twitter followers; and more than 2 million monthly unique visitors to the website in September 2012.

As a result, more entrepreneurs and businesses have access to outside capital than ever before and for the first time, investors can efficiently build diversified portfolios of private equity and debt investments.

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Hilary Stout illustrated this problem in The New York Times in June: «After all, the millennial generation has less wealth and more debt than other generations did at the same age, thanks to student loans and the lingering effects of the deep recession,» she wrote.

Even to him, taking a part - time position to pay down more of his debt seemed like a peculiar thing to do as a Harvard MBA with a six - figure management job at a Fortune 50 company.

«We're in a very positive situation economically, with more Canadians working, with a strong level of growth, and we'll continue to have an approach to fiscal conservatism that shows a declining debt - to - GDP over time,» said Morneau.

Caesars Entertainment was taken private in one of the largest and ill - timed leveraged buyouts in history, and the company has struggled under the weight of the debt used to finance the move along with increased competition as more jurisdictions legalize gambling.

«If you look at how many times a person says «wasted» in their profile, it has some value in predicting whether they're going to repay their debt,» FICO Chief Executive Officer Will Lansing told the FT. «It's not much, but it's more than zero.»

But by the time he was ousted in October, taxes had gone up 14 %, and the city's debt had more than doubled.

A 2014 report from the New American Foundation estimated that 40 % of loan debt was held by the 14 % of students seeking graduate degrees and the College Board found that graduate students borrow an average of nearly three times more per year than undergraduates.

But debt levels are now much more substantial, leading some analysts to speculate that hyperinflation may be the choice next time.

Adding Time Warner could cost $ 85 billion or more, including taking on the company's debt.

Second, the average time to maturity on U.S. debt is six years, meaning that most of the low - yielding bonds now on the books will be exchanged for more expensive debt over the next decade.

Crockett, who is bullish on SeaWorld, notes that even if things get much worse, the company has a portfolio of properties that, in its IPO filings, was valued at $ 5 billion; that's more than two times the current value of its market cap and debt.

Typically retail firms roll over debt to buy time, but interest rates have risen since the last set of buyouts several years ago, making that prospect more expensive.

... Frankly, it's the health care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt, so we spend more time on the health care entitlements — because that's really where the problem lies, fiscally speaking.»

But, at the same time, more debt and higher asset prices may create vulnerabilities in the financial system.

In that event, even as China's trade surplus with the U.S. fell, America's deficit with other countries would rise by even more, increasing its overall trade deficit, underpinned this time either by rising debt or rising unemployment.

In fact, investors seeking safety bought even more of the downgraded U.S. debt, pushing prices on 10 - year U.S. Treasuries to within a fraction of face value and yields to an all - time low of 2.13 %.

With more of your monthly payment going toward debt balance, you can dramatically lessen the time it takes to become debt free.

The problem of tax evasion in Greece has been pointed out many times during the debt crisis: Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, got into hot water over the summer with her comments that she felt more sympathy with children in Africa than tax evaders in Greece.

It did not disclose financial details of that deal, though Reuters at the time reported that the company's previous majority owner, buyout firm Summit Partners, was seeking a valuation for the company of more than $ 700 million, including debt.

He quickly got rid of that debt by paying about three to five times more than his monthly minimum payment.

I would like to say a little more about it today and will divide the subject into two aspects: the shorter - term cyclical fluctuations in household credit growth, and the fact that various debt ratios have trended upwards over time.

That figure, which comes out to a combined 360 billion euros ($ 401 billion) in bad debt, is more than three times the bank loans that were bad in the U.S. on a percentage basis at the height of the financial crisis.

If you're bankruptcy - free, an on - time payer (or no more than 60 days late), with more than $ 5,000 in debt for at least three years, then you should be good.

In theory, this would lead to a more experienced graduate who has a better time finding a job, and this graduate would also pickup less student debt along the way to graduation.

You can increase competition with anti-trust enforcement, and regulate natural monopolies and both (in the case of the newly merged Time Warner Cable), create greater transparency of prices, use government purchasing power, restore previous price controls (and please a federal usury law at no more than 15 %, to prevent debt bubbles of higher inflation).

Together, these requirements create a triple whammy for some first - time homebuyers who often have smaller down payments, higher debt obligations — such as student loans — and traditionally lower credit scores than more seasoned buyers.

Or does it cost you more by the time you're done paying off all the debt?

You'd think that corporate debt would grow in proportion to total sales, as this additional debt is used to fund investments in productive activities that create more sales and contribute to the economy, and that higher sales, and presumably higher earnings would create a proportionate increase in the value of the company, and thus in its stock price, and that they all go up together, not in lockstep but over time more or less at the same rate.

At the time the former seemed a more dangerous risk than the latter — although even then massive overinvestment was China's true vulnerability — but I think by now there is a rapidly developing consensus that investment, and the unsustainable concomitant increase in debt, is China's biggest problem.

At Georgetown University's McDonough School, EMBA students are graduating with average debt of $ 112,446, more than double the debt burden of the school's full - time MBAs whose average borrowing is $ 51,750.

While this may be more reflective of reality in some eyes, the truth is that carrying this much debt can put you at a greater risk of financial trouble, so adhering to a more conservative level of debt is likely to be safer and more sustainable over time.

That valued the Dodsland assets at 15 times debt - adjusted cash flow, which was more than twice the valuation of recent sales.

Bill Robson, president of the C.D. Howe Institute, a public policy think - tank, said one of the greatest challenges for the middle class is saving more for retirement at the same time wages aren't growing nearly as fast and household debt piles up.

At Emory University's Goizueta School, 72 % of the latest graduating class of EMBAs went in debt with the average burden at $ 77,795 — some $ 15,000 more than the 68 % of graduating full - time MBAs who averaged $ 62,716 in debt at the school.

The bottom line here is that if your combined monthly debts «soak up» more than 50 % of your income, you might have trouble qualifying for a home loan as a first - time buyer.

«The USA has a debt and deficit profile which is unsustainable; the Euro Zone has to decide whether it can forge a fully fiscal union or whether the costs are too great, in which event membership will be restructured; and China is trying to put its economy on a more sustainable growth path at a time of leadership change.

More broadly, the lesson is that it's hard to take an inherently flawed concept like a large regressive tax cut enacted at a time of low unemployment, rising interest rates, and high debt, and then tack on extra provisions that make it workable.

«It means reversing this long time economic model, where the state will profit through the economic system at the expense of the consumers and household, and one of the things that the new leadership is intent on doing in order to create consumption is to empower consumers, so they spend more and stop empowering state organizations which are fuelling the overcapacity and the massive debt bubble».

Taking into consideration the fact that there is just two other circumstances when the debt / GDP NYSE margin had increased by about 30 basis points or more in a period of only three months — that happened when the ration had reached its two major secular bull market highs — the likelihood is highly probable that the NYSE margin debt / US GDP, is once more at its peak of all time high of 2.87 %!

As of January 2018, China held $ 1.168 trillion in American debt, more than a $ 100 billion increase since the same time last year, but down about 11 percent from the record high above $ 1.3 trillion in late 2013.

More first - time homebuyers are saddled with debt and lenders know this.

Already at the time of the American Revolution, financial economists were popularizing the contrast that Malthus soon would imitate in his population theory: Debts grow at «geometric» rates, while the economy itself grows only «arithmetically,» in a slower and more linear way.

Plus it takes the government more than 20 % of tax revenue each year just to pay INTEREST on its debt — and that's at a time when rates are actually NEGATIVE.