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As a result, all financial institutions gain a powerful incentive to bulk up (and
borrow
more) in hope of also becoming bigger and therefore “safer” (from creditors’ point of view, not from a social perspective.)
The UK, unable to attract short-term capital inflows, was forced to
borrow
from the International Monetary Fund.
Tax deductions for interest payments encourage them to borrow, too, an issue that has long been understood.
With no forces of its own and a relatively tiny budget, the UN has only as much hard power as it can
borrow
from its member states.
But the general attitude in Poland is not, to
borrow
a phrase from Martin Luther King Jr, one of "we shall overcome."
Instead of traditional homogeneous states, this Europe seeks to be a “Community of Difference,” a kind of “People of Others,” to
borrow
a phrase from the jurist Joseph Weiler.
At the very moment that Kenya needs to
borrow
more to bridge a yawning budget gap, its leaders are bumping up against the cold calculus of international finance.
And, because these large financial institutions are by any meaningful definition “too big to fail,” they can
borrow
more cheaply than would otherwise be the case.
If shareholders want to tell directors what to do – say,
borrow
more money and expand the business, or close off the money-losing factory – well, they just can’t.
Such large fiscal deficits would mean that the government must
borrow
funds that would otherwise be available for private businesses to finance investment in productivity-enhancing plant and equipment.
For the moment, America’s ability to
borrow
vast sums at low interest rates acts like a huge dose of steroids on the economy.
The Chinese acknowledge that they enabled Americans to
borrow
and spend beyond their means by parking China’s massive foreign reserves in US government securities.
What is required is a debate with the US, for the strong dollar has led to an anomalous situation: the world's richest country seems unable to live within its means and must continually
borrow
hundreds of billions of dollars from abroad to finance its huge trade deficits.
Under existing law, the federal government must
borrow
$800 billion this year, and that amount will double, to $1.6 trillion, in 2028.
And he is right to emphasize that all have made terrific progress and now offer great opportunities for the rising middle class, which wants to accumulate savings,
borrow
more easily (for productive investment, home purchases, education, etc), and, more generally, smooth out consumption.
Not only do remittances help pay for critical imports; by improving the balance of payments, they allow countries to
borrow
at lower interest rates in private capital markets.
The Scotland Act of 2012 caps the region’s deficit at 10% of its budget and limits how much the Scottish government can
borrow.
Solvent countries currently can
borrow
at near-zero interest rates, so the time is right to invest in long-term productive assets in the peripheral countries, thus helping to facilitate the structural reforms that Europe needs to claw its way out of crisis and into a sustainable, prosperous future.
Eager to
borrow
their country to prosperity, they racked up enormous debts while presiding over a dramatic loss of competitiveness and, thus, growth potential.
With near-zero interest rates, most Western governments cannot afford not to
borrow.
But private-sector CFOs seem determined to prove that they can
borrow
as lavishly as their public-sector colleagues once did.
Today, most emerging-market economies have (or at least pretend to have) floating exchange rates, and yet locals continue to
borrow
heavily in foreign currency.
If the local interest rate is 17% per year and the dollar interest rate is 2%, it still makes sense to
borrow
in dollars as long as the domestic currency is expected to depreciate 15% or less.
Yes, some export companies that
borrow
dollars also earn dollars.
Because every country, regardless of its creditworthiness, can
borrow
at the same interest rate, projects will be undertaken in countries that recently have burned such huge amounts of capital that they can no longer tap financial markets for funding.
That vision was built on a simple and brilliant idea: to
borrow
against the secure capital of creditor members (at the time, primarily the US) and lend to members where investment capital was scarce and returns would be high.
But the mutualisation of debt gave rise to huge moral hazard effects, inducing the states to
borrow
excessively.
After the adoption of the euro, Greece was able to
borrow
at interest rates not much higher than those paid by northern European countries, even though its fiscal policy was worlds apart from that of Germany or Finland.
Puerto Rico – a US territory – was also allowed to
borrow
too much for too long.
Worse, the recovery is likely to be anemic and sub-par – well below potential for a couple of years, if not longer – as the burden of debts and leverage of the private sector combine with rising public sector debts to limit the ability of households, financial firms, and corporations to lend, borrow, spend, consume, and invest.
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