Borrowed
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Exploiting what Valéry Giscard d’Estaing called the “exorbitant privilege” of the world’s reserve currency, the US
borrowed
surplus savings from abroad on very attractive terms, running massive balance-of-payments, or current-account, deficits to attract foreign capital.
Furthermore, as Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel has pointed out, regulators increased margin requirements several times this year, making it harder to buy stocks with
borrowed
money.
But do they know that Bo’s administration
borrowed
the equivalent of more than 50% of local GDP to finance the construction binge, and that a large portion of the debt will go unpaid?
To see the inadequacy of that package, compare it with the more than $1.5 trillion that was
borrowed
in home equity loans in recent years, most of it spent on consumption.
That means that every dollar of war spending has in effect been
borrowed.
Consider the case of a hypothetical Latin American retail company that
borrowed
abroad in dollars to build a shopping mall at home.
Even as penniless graduate students, the economists Jon Steinsson and Emi Nakamura
borrowed
money to pay people to do their household chores, calculating that “spending an extra hour working on a paper was better for their lifetime expected earnings than spending that same hour vacuuming.”
The language changes, but the belief that Western civilization is living on
borrowed
time (and money) is the same.
Everyone knows what financial debt means: money owed, often
borrowed.
The people who run big banks like leverage: More
borrowed
money (and less of their own) means that they get more upside, in the sense of a higher return on capital, unadjusted for risk.
Indeed, many
borrowed
to finance their spending, with the result that the proportion of poorer households in financial distress or filing for bankruptcy was significantly higher in areas where the rich earned (and spent) more.
Shareholders in banks could not have understood that the dividends they received before 2007 were actually money that they had
borrowed
from themselves.
Investors search for regular small gains punctuated by occasional large losses, an approach exemplified by the carry trade by which investors
borrowed
euros in Germany and France to lend in Greece and Portugal.
In both narratives, traders
borrowed
money from the future.
He laughed at my admitting that I had
borrowed
some of his performance art.
Prior to the 2016 Brexit referendum, I
borrowed
this line from the Eagles’ 1976 hit “Hotel California” as an argument against Britain exiting the European Union.
Unwittingly, the Blancos
borrowed
his ideology.
Overall, the US economy expended more than it generated in income, running a trade (more precisely a current-account) deficit, and
borrowed
the difference from abroad.
It so happens that the Angolan government
borrowed
a similar sum from private banks in this period, mortgaging future oil revenues as security.
Statistical analysis reveals that roughly 80 cents on every dollar
borrowed
by African countries flowed back as capital flight in the same year.
Foreign borrowing and capital flight were connected by a financial revolving door, as funds
borrowed
in the name of governments were captured by politically connected individuals and channeled overseas as their private wealth.
If the fate of
borrowed
money cannot be traced, then they must infer that it was diverted into private pockets.
In 1958, the government of President Fulgencio Batista
borrowed
a small amount from the IMF: $12.5 million, equivalent to 25% of Cuba’s quota.
Profit margins have expanded to record highs as companies have cut costs, delayed infrastructure investments,
borrowed
at ultra-low rates, and taken advantage of weak labor markets to avoid raising wages.
The problem in the eurozone from 2007 on was that some of Europe’s largest banks had
borrowed
heavily in dollars and, when credit conditions tightened, could not easily obtain the dollars needed to continue funding their operations.
The sixteenth-century Habsburgs
borrowed
– at very high interest rates – from Florentine, Genovese, and Augsburg merchants.
The series combined a popular director (David Fincher), actor (Kevin Spacey), and plotlines
borrowed
from a popular British show with the same title – all of which scored highly on Netflix’s popularity metrics.
One concerns who
borrowed
the money.
A high-level German diplomat reportedly dismissed Spain’s 6.5-7% interest rates recently, on the grounds that Spain
borrowed
at nearly the same rates in the 1990’s.
For non-US banks, governments, and any other entity that had
borrowed
in dollars, the strengthening greenback created repayment difficulties.
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