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As a result, banks have even stronger incentives to resume heavy borrowing (as Admati argues), and, as rising asset prices lift the economy in the recovery phase, it becomes possible for them to
borrow
even more (as Bernanke knows).
The years 1960 to 1985 formed the era in which development was to be financed by public institutions like the World Bank, because market failures and distrust of governments made it hard for poor countries to
borrow
privately.
This year, the US will
borrow
roughly $800 billion to finance its trade deficit.
If local banks suffer a run, or if corporations have trouble rolling over their debt, they need to be able to
borrow
dollars from the local central bank, which in turn may have no choice but to get those dollars from the Fed.
Assuming that Greece could
borrow
at a real interest rate of only 3% (the current level is 17%), the government would need to run an annual 2.6%-of-GDP primary budget surplus (the fiscal balance minus debt-service costs) for the next 30 years just to keep the debt burden stable.
With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.
Economic predominance shifted only when the UK ran large current-account deficits during World Wars I and II – the country had to
borrow
heavily in order to finance its war effort, and imports were significantly higher than exports.
They want to know how much they can
borrow
from abroad, or at what price shares in their companies may be sold in New York or London.
The cost to the public will be especially high in an era when the government can
borrow
at near-zero interest rates.
The dollar is weakening, as financial markets understand that the US will need to
borrow
huge sums from abroad for years to come.
Many firms are able to renegotiate financing terms with their creditors – typically extending the maturity of their liabilities, which enables them to
borrow
more to finance new, better projects.
The small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that are willing to
borrow
couldn’t get access to credit before the ECB went negative, and they can’t now.
Simply put, most firms – and especially SMEs – can’t
borrow
easily at the T-bill rate.
They don’t
borrow
on capital markets.
They
borrow
from banks.
The Stability and Growth Pact has been relaxed in order to increase governments’ capacity to
borrow
to recapitalize their banks.
Savers were repressed in order to lower the costs of credit for debtors (including governments) and those seeking to
borrow
for business expansion.
This is because the destruction of confidence undermines the “animal spirits” of capitalism: borrowers are unwilling to
borrow
and lenders are unwilling to lend.
The destruction of wealth also destroys collateral, which means that even those who wish to
borrow
cannot.
This is a major problem, given that Russia, despite its miniscule sovereign debt of only 13% of GDP, cannot
borrow
on global financial markets, owing to Western sanctions.
Given that Germany and even France can
borrow
at record-low interest rates, any reasonably well-designed investment program will strengthen the public sector’s balance sheet.
Heavily indebted eurozone members can apply to
borrow
from them at less than the commercial rate, conditional on their committing to ever more drastic fiscal austerity.
New bond issues, following a big debt write-down in 1924 (the Dawes Plan), enabled Germany to
borrow
the money to resume payments.
Those who can
borrow
have ample cash and are cautious about spending, while those who want to
borrow
– highly indebted households and firms (especially small and medium-size enterprises) – face a credit crunch.
Such terms seek to
borrow
legitimacy from the past and to explain the present – in a way that most serious scholars of either Islam or terrorism never found very helpful.
This implies that the problem has mainly been a lack of demand for credit – reluctance on the part of businesses and households to
borrow
on almost any terms in a flat market.
Businesses will want to borrow, and banks will want to expand their lending.
So the evidence does not really tell us whether a heavily indebted country should pay down its debt or
borrow
and invest more.
But this position looks increasingly doubtful when the banks are sitting on piles of cash while creditworthy consumers and businesses are reluctant to
borrow.
The main source of concern is that the low interest rates at which most European governments can currently
borrow
are not likely to last.
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