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With regard to the second problem, the interest rate on rescue packages should be reduced to the rate at which the EU itself can
borrow
on the market.
Our “animal spirits,” to
borrow
a phrase made famous by John Maynard Keynes, are weakening.
Having access to insured credit, banks’ shareholders find it irresistible to
borrow
excessively.
The immediate answer is that national banks will now use the scheme to
borrow
cheaply from the ECB and invest in short-term sovereign bonds, using the interest-rate spread to create a profitable “sovereign carry trade.”
And the Indian government played a large part in fueling rupee appreciation by easing companies’ ability to
borrow
abroad.
Few countries need to
borrow
from the IMF – a highly positive trend.
Such a trend could have consequences extending far beyond the personal or the emotional, creating a population that is, to
borrow
a phrase from the Nobel-laureate economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, easily phished for phools.
What religion should teach us is not how to hate, but – to
borrow
again from Confucius – how to develop societies that look after and welcome the poor, the stranger, and the oppressed.
In contrast to Paulson’s method of injecting funds, banks were not stigmatized if they could
borrow
from the markets.
After their experience in 1997-1998, Korean policymakers would sooner jump off a cliff than borrow, even without conditions, from the IMF.
The federal government can currently
borrow
at record-low interest rates, and there are many projects in education, infrastructure, and research that would earn a higher return, create jobs now, and bolster US competitiveness in attracting high-wage jobs.
As Hyun Shin and other economists at the Bank for International Settlements have argued, low developed-country interest rates and a weak dollar drove financial markets, led by the New York and London hubs, to
borrow
money in low-interest-rate currencies and invest in higher-interest-rate currencies.
Back at the start of 2004, America’s banks discovered that they could
borrow
money cheaply from Asia and lend it out in higher-yielding domestic mortgages while using sophisticated financial engineering to wall off and strictly control their risks – or so they thought.
To finance its trade deficit, America must
borrow
from abroad over a billion dollars a day.
The federal “debt limit” was never a firm construct, and under pressure it became a squishy “ceiling suspension” that allows the government to
borrow
as much as it wants.
Egypt’s low credit rating has forced the government to
borrow
domestically, which has crowded out other borrowers to the point that private investment amounts to just 11% of GDP.
If a country saves less than it invests, it must
borrow
the difference from abroad, and foreign borrowing and trade deficits are two sides of the same coin.
With Reagan's irresponsible tax cuts, combined with America's paltry savings, the US had no choice but to
borrow
abroad.
There is certainly no evidence to support Krugman’s repeated assertion that a country in the UK’s situation – with its own currency and with debt denominated in that currency – could
borrow
without constraint in the aftermath of a major banking crisis.
If you need to
borrow
for liquidity, world market will supply those funds at reasonable interest rates.
Of course, so long as the US runs annual current-account deficits of almost a trillion dollars, it will need to
borrow
from strategic rivals such as China, Russia, and unstable Middle East petro-states, which increasingly will lend in the form of high-yield equity investments rather than low-yield T-bills.
What the Aleppo siege will do is clinch Syria’s place in history as, to
borrow
former US Secretary of State Warren Christopher’s phrase, another “problem from hell.”
No amount of extra liquidity will entice overleveraged companies and households to
borrow
more.
At the same time, the legislature controls the budget and the government’s ability to
borrow.
But, while Argentina’s government clearly needs to borrow, it could go too far – not least because provincial governments are also eager to
borrow.
Apart from the central government, about half of Argentina’s 24 provinces (counting Buenos Aires) are actively seeking to
borrow
abroad; some estimates suggest that imminent provincial borrowing could amount to another $5 billion of external debt.
Today, Greece’s government cannot
borrow
at all, and Ireland must pay high interest rates, while France’s treasury might soon have to pay more, and Germany may be able to
borrow
even more cheaply.
When countries seem committed to a fixed exchange rate (say, relative to the US dollar), firms and individuals feel encouraged to
borrow
in foreign currency (like the dollar) in order to lock in what are typically lower interest rates.
Here the key issue is leverage, or how much banks are allowed to
borrow
relative to their equity, and the temptation that policymakers face to allow banks to
borrow
more, particularly when times are good and asset prices are rising.
Because market interest rates rise to compensate for high inflation, even the government must now pay an interest rate of about 25% to
borrow
in pesos for short periods.
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