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Like quotas on manufactured products, these new quotas are generating a dual-price allocation system, in which SOEs can
borrow
at significantly lower interest rates than small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which must rely on the informal market at interest rates as high as 2% monthly.
And the World Bank has indicated that a country’s ability to
borrow
from it could eventually be tied to investments in human capital, including health spending.
But this experience also underscores the impotence of monetary policy in a deflationary environment, owing to the unwillingness of banks to lend and of enterprises to
borrow.
At the same time, expansionary fiscal policy increased effective demand, while the government, backed by its strong public-finance position, was able to tackle nonperforming loans effectively, thereby increasing commercial banks’ willingness to lend and firms’ ability to
borrow.
The US government currently can
borrow
at historically low interest rates.
Cuba could of course
borrow
from bilateral creditors.
SOEs may also use the unregulated shadow banking system to re-lend at higher interest rates the cheap money they receive to private businesses, which cannot
borrow
reliably from the formal banking system.
During the pre-crisis boom, homebuyers were encouraged to
borrow
heavily to finance undiversified investments in a single home, while governments provided guarantees to mortgage investors.
Reducing (or, better yet, eliminating) discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation is one way to accomplish this, as is ensuring property rights, in part so that people can
borrow
money against their homes to start businesses.
For the first time in many countries, Asia’s banks were allowed to
borrow
from abroad.
Economists hesitate to explain to people that they should
borrow
less.
Many other countries, such as Korea and Singapore, have regulations – loan-to-value ratios, for example – limiting how much households can
borrow.
Because international banks, wherever they are located, tend to
borrow
in dollars, the swap arrangements allow foreign central banks to lend dollars to their local banks in times of emergency.
Nevertheless, the US is able to
borrow
at dramatically lower interest rates than Greece can.
Our rules now encourage investors in infrastructure and other projects with limited foreign earnings to issue Masala bonds (whereby Indian companies can
borrow
abroad in rupees), or to
borrow
long term, thereby limiting their risk when the exchange rate moves against them.
Countries that
borrow
abroad must export in order to service their debts.
Secondly, if a country invests more than it saves, it will need to borrow, and the counterpart to that borrowing is a trade deficit.
As long as the status quo persists, with strong global growth and stunning macroeconomic stability, the US can continue to
borrow
and run trade deficits without immediate consequence.
To express a negative view via the CDS market, investors do not need to locate securities to
borrow
(a prerequisite to shorting), and they risk only a limited premium, while they have the opportunity to gain many times that.
Lacking in saving and wanting to invest, consume, and grow, they have no choice but to
borrow
surplus saving from others, which gives rise to current-account and trade deficits with the rest of the world.
Finally, an early request for OMT intervention would not only reduce the Italian and Spanish governments’ borrowing costs (and thus their fiscal deficits), but would also lower the cost of capital for local firms, which currently find it difficult to
borrow
and invest.
Similarly, before the introduction of limited liability in the nineteenth century, a company’s shareholders or partners were each liable for all of the firm’s debts, which severely restricted businesses’ willingness to
borrow
to finance trade.
But, in the twentieth century, with greater security of conditions and continuous economic growth, it became normal for individuals, companies, and governments to
borrow
in anticipation of earnings – to spend money they did not have, but that they expected to have.
But, in a system with many – often implicit – government guarantees, it is not always the most efficient enterprises that are willing and able to pay more to
borrow.
But the fact that the US looks set to
borrow
almost $900 billion this year from the rest of the world is hardly a sign of US strength and foreign weakness.
Southern Europe, which did not
borrow
in foreign currencies (but has close financial links with Turkey), will likely face difficulties in coping with higher interest rates, which is why the ECB would prefer further euro depreciation to interest increases.
Banks known to be healthy can
borrow
at much less than 5.25%.
But banks facing possible liquidity problems – which the Fed wants to be able to
borrow
at 5.25% – are borrowing from the Fed itself at 5.75%, as are a few big banks that want more liquidity but don’t believe they could get it without disrupting the market.
Moreover, with interest rates for large corporations at their lowest level in decades (negative in real terms for the largest, so that savers are in fact paying corporations to
borrow
their money), the cost of capital is probably not the main reason why they are not investing more in the US.
This growing aversion to risk makes it particularly difficult for SMEs to
borrow
from commercial banks, forcing them to turn to the under-regulated shadow banking sector.
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