This is a small sum relative to Russia s currency reserves, but plenty for the underdeveloped banking system, which experienced a severe credit squeeze.

It was the huge loss of households net worth that brought down the real economy (with an assist from the credit squeeze on smaller businesses).

Certainly the People s Bank of China, which engineered a credit squeeze in June in an attempt to discourage loan growth, seems to believe that financial leverage has risen to dangerous levels.

The Coming Emerging Market Debt Squeeze

The lemons squeeze out the oranges.

Monetary policy can be used in countries where interest rates remain high, but its effectiveness in a credit squeeze is likely to be limited. Fiscal policy must, therefore, play a central role.

VIENNA Europe s current financial squeeze defies easy solutions.

Without such programs, the multinational squeeze goes on.

I can t let these assholes squeeze people any more.

You just snap them in half, and you squeeze it out.

It is not that the world economy faces a liquidity squeeze.

For Greece and Portugal, staying in the eurozone will be a tight squeeze.

Even the world s middle classes are feeling the squeeze of falling incomes and opportunities.

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Quality squeeze pages use success stories that the prospect would relate to when making a buying decision.

As a general rule, Internet marketers try to keep the content on their squeeze pages to a minimum.

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If investors know that a liquidity squeeze is no longer possible, they will refrain from speculative attacks on solvent countries.

Israel refused even to negotiate with the Hamas led Palestinian government, trying to squeeze it financially and make it capitulate.

This way public credit registries and credit bureaux may be able to operate and provide adequate and up to date electronic credit information.

These places are bulging with people facing a tightening squeeze of insufficient rainfall and degraded pasturelands. Naturally, many join radical causes.

Furthermore, the decline in the working age cohort would squeeze labor supply, fueling wage growth and eroding the country s economic competitiveness.

In Spain, as in Greece before it, the monetary squeeze has become chronic as banks run short of ECB eligible collateral.

Because the federal government disburses fiscal allocations to Malaysia s 13 states, the government will be tempted to squeeze opposition held states.

The system, Americans have been reminded, has become painfully complex, with many a loophole through which one might try to squeeze.

Banks and credit card companies have become much more cautious about extending credit.

Credit histories cannot be shared, because a credit bureau is just getting started.

The supply of credit, in other words, resulted from the demand for credit.

China s Credit Overdose

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