These come at a time of recession when banks are reporting billions in losses in their credit card divisions.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

To get a credit card, they will need a parent or other adult over twenty-one to accept joint responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

To ease credit, the Bank of England last week reduced its main interest rate to 1.5% - its lowest ever.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

As banks refused to lend, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson proposed a plan to loosen credit markets by buying risky assets.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

American housing sales,though, have improved in recent months, helped by lower prices and a tax credit for first-time buyers.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

"I think it's going to make credit harder for the American people to get, clearly harder for businesses to get."

VOA: special.2010.07.23

"I try to make works of art out of something everybody uses all day: dollar bills and quarters and credit cards.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

Experts credit the Greek astronomer Archimedes with developing the earliest known device to show the daily movement of the planets.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

At the same time, the nation's biggest insurance company, American International Group, had gotten into trouble selling credit default swaps.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Credit card companies will have to inform cardholders forty-five days before they raise interest rates or change other important terms.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

A study in the United States found that eighty-four percent of undergraduates last year had at least one credit card.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

People do not need a job or a good credit history to get a loan from a pawnbroker.

VOA: special.2011.04.18

And even if you put those sentences into your own words, you should still give credit to where you got the information.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Government,community and business leaders have pushed for teaching young people about the importance of saving, budgets and the true cost of credit.

VOA: special.2009.04.10