One bonus of the global recession is that it wiped a lot of incompetent hedge fund managers and energy speculators from the canyons of Wall Street. As the Gordon Gecko sycophants regroup and look for the next Big Thing, maximizing profit while minimizing risk, the landscape looks very different than it did a year ago. In such a climate, it is uranium, not oil and natural gas that would seem to have the brightest future for one simple, overriding capitalist principle �€“ supply and demand.

In the past years, different types of credit scoring systems have been used in calculating a person’s credit score. There was a time when the credit score was largely based on the number of credit cards owned, the amount of charges incurred each month, and the person’s ability to pay them. As a result, people who do not own credit cards automatically become a candidate of a poor credit score.