The international balance of payments remains in surplus, and there is still a net capital inflow despite the global credit crunch.

Thus, banks losses on their toxic assets and their capital needs will be much larger than recently estimated, which will worsen the credit crunch.

Crunch time is fast approaching.

And the credit crunch for non investment grade firms and smaller firms, which rely mostly on access to bank loans rather than capital markets, is still severe.

Banking failure caused a credit crunch.

Another 1.5 trillion is needed to bring banks capital back to pre crisis level, which is needed to resolve the credit crunch and restore lending to the private sector.

So the credit crunch will not ease quickly.

There is a credit crunch, as banks with insufficient capital do not want to lend to risky borrowers, while slow growth and high levels of household debt have also depressed credit demand.

True, the US Federal Reserve has tried to prevent a recession by cutting its interest rates. But the Fed cannot endow the banks with new equity capital and prevent a credit crunch.

Within a year, Rainforest Crunch was on the shelves.

They took inspiration from, of all things, Cap'n Crunch.

Sixth, while regulatory reform that increases the liquidity and capital ratios for financial institutions is necessary, those higher ratios should be phased in gradually to prevent a further worsening of the credit crunch.

Meanwhile, the credit crunch in the eurozone periphery is intensifying thanks to the ECB long term cheap loans, banks there don t have a liquidity problem now, but they do have a massive capital shortage.

Nonetheless, the eurozone periphery shows little sign of recovery GDP continues to shrink, owing to ongoing fiscal austerity, the euro s excessive strength, a severe credit crunch underpinned by banks shortage of capital, and depressed business and consumer confidence.

The signs might indicate that the complexity crunch is only going to get worse.

Moreover, money markets, especially in Europe, remain traumatized by the festering global credit crunch.

But the liquidity crunch was not the only problem there was also a solvency problem.

In today s credit crunch, as in the Great Depression, central banks lend at practically zero interest rates.

In recent weeks, the global liquidity and credit crunch that started last August has become more severe.

At the beginning of the current credit crunch, many historically minded people picked 1907 as the key precedent.

Lee also must confront factors beyond his control, such as soaring oil prices and the global credit crunch.

Third, to restore credit growth, eurozone banks and banking systems that are under capitalized should be strengthened with public financing in a European Union wide program. To avoid an additional credit crunch as banks deleverage, banks should be given some short term forbearance on capital and liquidity requirements.

The credit crunch will last much longer if we keep zombie banks alive despite their massive and continuing losses.

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.

Unlike the US, China did not suffer from a liquidity shortage and a credit crunch during the global financial crisis.

If today s credit crunch has historical parallels, they are closer to nineteenth century normal crises like 1837, 1847, or 1857.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Barcelona The financial crisis, credit crunch, and ensuing economic downturn have severely damaged the credibility of financial markets, institutions, and traders.

The spread of bankruptcies triggered a severe credit crunch, which triggered a deep recession and with it a brutal rise in unemployment.

The mortgage crisis and the credit crunch have led to bailouts for the banks and the nationalization of housing finance and insurance.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses supercomputers to crunch hundreds of millions of observations to help make weather forecasts more accurate.

This caused a credit crunch and prolonged deflation in the late 1990 s, as the central government tried to clean up the mess.

Theological language that might have decried the credit crunch as the wages of sin, a come uppance for prodigious profligacy, has become unusable.

After all, stagnation and outright recession exacerbated by front loaded fiscal austerity, a strong euro, and an ongoing credit crunch remain Europe s norm.

The credit crunch in the banking system is becoming more severe as banks deleverage by selling assets and rationing credit, exacerbating the downturn.

After all, excessive and chaotic deleveraging by lenders to emerging Europe and the ensuing credit crunch would destabilize this economically and institutionally fragile region.

Bad banks that are constructed generously enough to provide banks with hidden equity injections are one way to avoid or mitigate the credit crunch.

It attributed deflationary spirals to the reverse effect of a failure of a central bank to support the money supply during a liquidity crunch.

They tell us that the recent financial crisis pales in comparison to the looming ecological credit crunch, which could presage a large scale ecosystem collapse.

Everyday in the news, we hear about credit crunch happening globally that has even put those giant corporations down on their knees and even collapse.

Efratti of From Nation's Capital to Nation's Capital adds

Instead, as the credit crunch and housing price decline continue, an epic mortgage bailout appears increasingly likely, possibly costing US taxpayers a trillion dollars or more.

Indeed, just as microeconomic problems in the financial sector triggered a credit crunch and fueled a global recession, so microeconomic factors hold the key to recovery.

Her human capital was no match for his financial capital.

Its capital, Belgrade, was also the federal capital of Yugoslavia.