Can Your Credit Survive The Economy?
August 22, 2008 · Print This Article
Up until this century, the vast majority of people would have thought that the situation in America is ripe with opportunity for buying your own home or getting a car with very little effort. You could even set up your own personal business or enterprise with next to no risk of failure. However, what with the recent stumble of the economy and the threat of both a collapsing mortgage industry and a weakening domestic automotive market, the general public consensus has shifted in such a way so that the mere idea of the aforementioned investments in the current financial climate would be akin to bankruptcy.
However, while there are many issues with the nation’s current circumstances that will have to be considered when dealing with the prospects of buying anything for the future, your credit will not necessarily have to get impacted. Proper management of income, a reevaluation of all expenses, careful redistribution of capital to cover those costs that are recognized as being essential, and the right foresight can go an extremely long way to ensure that your credit remains bulletproof for years to come.
Even if you have bad or spotty credit, you can still make changes that can affect the long-term outcome of your financial history in such a way as to rejuvenate your fiscal reputation. Cutting back on excessive spending, saving money and paying off outstanding debts, getting a part-time job on the side to help cover expenses, and properly balancing the checkbook to fix potential mistakes are actions that help you take initiative to control your credit and bring it up to a highly respectable level.
Of course, while these are timeless positive changes that have been tested by both the ages and those successful individuals that have managed to overcome and prosper even in the darkest times, there should still be consideration given to the particular issues present in any given economy that can influence your lifestyle in a fundamental way.
For instance, one of the biggest concerns right now is the cost of gas. While it may seem like a good solution to try and buy your gas with your credit cards, you should reconsider this because it can escalate into large amounts of debt very quickly. Furthermore, the cost of gas at the pump rises considerably when it is paid for with credit, so taking that trip to the cashier to pay with cash can not only save money where it counts, but also reduce the overall amount of debt that your incur on a monthly basis.
There is also the matter of the mortgage crisis. While the housing market has taken a slump, many banks and loan operations have tightened up their requirements for loans, making it hard on those that have loans currently and harder on those who would want to obtain them. Fixing your credit early or improving it further is a surefire way of making a better impression when it comes to finding the loan that you need in order to pay for the things that you require. Good credit can not only be maintained, but can also be achieved despite the direction that the economy has taken recently.
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How is that going to work? The reason why Chinese goods are so cheap (apart from the artificially devalued currency) is because the standard of living is lower there so workers can be paid with much lower wages. Factories opened in the US can not compete.
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post penned by Michael Cole, Managing Director of RightSite.asia, China’s largest online marketplace for commercial and industrial real estate. Cole has also successfully launched, grown and profitably exited from media ventures in China. After a modest amount of time observing China’s economy it becomes clear that the government likes to arrange organized competition in industries it considers strategic. Thus the country gets three major airlines—China Eastern, China Southern and Air China—as well as three major mobile phone networks in China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom. Now, with the recent announcement of two major new search engine companies, it appears that search is joining transportation, phone networks and Internet service providers as a strategic industry to be managed more directly by the government. And maybe China will soon have three search giants to match up with its telephone and airline triplets.
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The rating is a factor, but there are many other factors such as assets, liabilities (including the aging of the AR/AP). You can get an appraiser to value your in/tangible assets. But the biggest factors are cash flow, EBITDA margins, and total revenue. Assuming your business is doing 1MM in EBITDA on 20MM revenue, you can secure for maybe 2.5 times that amount. It all depends on the dynamics. Also, if working capital is a crucial need, you can hire an investment bank to find you a mezanine lender that specializes in those deals. They usually give higher multiples on working cap if your business is on the up and up. Good luck.
china has a population of 1 billion that out numbers the US army single handedly and im sure easily 200 million would be used for war. the us population is a little less than 300 million. china would murder america allied with india and russia. you have to remember these 3 countries have been trade partners since the beginning of trade.
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