1.   The federal government has an indirect influence on investment through its control of bank credits.

2.   With cash reserves dwindling and bank credit expensive, companies will accelerate their already steady selling of shares.

3.   It follows that there is an inverse relationship between the cash ratio and the credit multiplier and, therefore, the volume of bank credit.

4.   Bank credit had financed the bull market, and for a time people were scared.

5.   Barbara Robbins stated in the court filing that her husband had been able to stay afloat financially by securing a line of bank credit.

6.   But barter also reflects gritty determination to get by without the bank credits and investment capital that fuel Western-style capitalism.

7.   But government actions distorted the obligations of neutrality by allowing shipments of war materials and massive bank credits, among other actions, the report said.

8.   Eventually, rising interest rates will translate into costlier home mortgages and other bank credit, slowing sales of expensive goods.

9.   Evergreen will finance the purchase of the Viacom stations with bank credit and other financing sources.

10.   It also had to use much of its existing bank credit to build holiday inventories.