subject: Feeling the Pinch of Belt-Tightening [print this page] Feeling the Pinch of Belt-Tightening Feeling the Pinch of Belt-Tightening
Whoever thought the Wall Street Crash was the kind of disaster that could never repeat itself was wrong. Really wrong. When the sub-prime mortgage crisis reared its ugly head a few years ago, billions of gasps were exchanges in a world-wide Chinese whisper.
The sub-prime mortgage disaster caused the global economy, give or take a few countries, to plummet to catastrophic lows. Economists, historians and political commentators were left scratching their heads: how did we not see this coming?
The undetected financial earthquake left in its wake massive fault lines that still look today as gaping as Grand Canyon ravines. What it will take to rebuild the bridges or the crucial economic infrastructure that got wrecked during the quake is up to the brainiacs to figure out, if even they can.
People on the street, as is the case with most financial crises, are the ones left to feel the pinch of mass belt-tightening. Austerity measures and strict new financial regulations are now being implemented to reinvent and rebuild the economy. These measures, though some would argue are necessary, are causing stress for low- to-middle income families. Is this, one should righty ask, fair? Most of us know which answer we would choose.
What can the family, now tainted with bad credit history, do to borrow money? Banks, on an increasing and unprecedented level, are refusing to give out loans as freely as they once did. It's now up to credit institution such as Credit One Bank to assess how and if payment-defaulting consumers can rebuild their credit history and be trusted to borrow again. When borrowing from financial institutions, always do your research.
Credit One Bankis regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury. The OCC was appointed to ensure that banks are safe and sound and that they offer credit as competitive and profitable rates.
