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Ireland knows better than most countries the difficulties that can arise from having to
borrow
to fund services or repay maturing debts.
It could
borrow
money from a bank and repay it from resulting profits.
The human and intellectual qualities of the three remaining candidates are even viewed with some envy on this side of the Atlantic, where you can hear statements such as: “Could we
borrow
just one of your candidates?”
One sure way of doing so is to use financial leverage, typically by selling land or using land as collateral to
borrow
large sums of money from often-obliging state-owned banks, to finance massive infrastructure projects, as Bo did in Chongqing.
With home prices falling (and set to continue to fall), and with banks uncertain of their financial position, lenders will not lend and households will not
borrow.
Countries that cannot
borrow
in international markets in their own currency lack that power.
Since the subprime crisis, ultra-low interest rates in the rich world have caused emerging-market firms to
borrow
like never before.
The fiscal straightjacket should be scrapped, with governments that
borrow
too much allowed to default.
The financial markets encouraged consumers to
borrow
by introducing ever more sophisticated instruments and more generous terms.
Moreover, the annual interest charged on the extra $1 trillion per year that Americans
borrow
from the rest of the world is about $50 billion – just one-eighth of annual economic growth, while the trade deficit is financed out of the growth of the value of capital.
Monetary expansion generally makes it easier to borrow, and lowers the costs of doing so, throughout the economy.
Virtually anyone could
borrow
to buy a house, with little or even no down payment, and with interest charges pushed years into the future.
Nowotny, the president of the National Bank of Austria, suggested that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) might (if the German Constitutional Court allows it to come into existence) be given a banking license, which would allow it to
borrow
from the ECB and greatly expand its ability to purchase eurozone sovereign bonds.
And it would be a mistake to allow the ESM to have a banking license so that it can
borrow
from the ECB, greatly increasing its purchase of peripheral countries’ bonds.
They need not only to invest the proceeds in the right type of high-return projects, but also to ensure that they do not have to
borrow
further to service their debt.
Since then, the city has continued to borrow, mostly to service its outstanding bonds.
Countries that have their own currency, like the United Kingdom – and especially the United States, which can
borrow
from foreigners in dollars – do not face a direct financing constraint.
Does the market control the state, in the sense that it sets a limit on governments’ ability to
borrow?
Many warned that it would not – that bond yields might converge at the outset, permitting spendthrift countries to
borrow
more cheaply than they otherwise could.
The French supported euro membership, because they wanted the Mediterranean countries, including themselves, to be able to
borrow
at the same low rates as Germany on the capital markets.
This will, it is thought, enable the government to
borrow
money more cheaply than it would otherwise be able to do, in turn lowering interest rates for private borrowers, which should boost economic activity.
A government of a country with its own central bank and its own currency can simply continue to
borrow
by printing the money which is lent to it.
The British government already must
borrow
£112 billion ($172 billion) more than it had planned when it announced its deficit-reduction plan in June 2010.
After all, corporate borrowers do not
borrow
at the “risk-free” yield of, say, US Treasury bonds, and evidence shows that monetary expansion can push down the interest rate on government debt, but have hardly any effect on new bank lending to firms or households.
Between January and October 1987, the Fed pushed up the effective federal funds rate by nearly 100 basis points, making it more expensive to
borrow
and purchase shares.
She was chosen, to
borrow
the commentators’ jargon, to energize the party base, which comprises hard-liners suspicious of McCain’s lack of enthusiasm for the causes that fire them up, such as creationism and a ban on abortion.
And the effect of spending by the rich on non-rich households’ spending was higher in areas where house prices could move more, suggesting that housing credit and the ability to
borrow
against rising home equity may have supported over-consumption by the non-rich.
Households whose members have steady jobs
borrow
from micro-financiers to pay the fees, and then spend the rest of the year repaying the loan.
Instead, it makes sense to
borrow
while the parents are young and their income is still relatively low, and to repay once they are better off.
The same logic applies to a developing country, which in order to escape poverty should run a deficit and
borrow
while still poor.
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