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Of course, fiscal caution cannot be abandoned; after all, if governments or the private sector were to spend
borrowed
or newly minted money freely, the result would simply be more crises, which would hurt the poor most.
The best example is Rosneft, which
borrowed
about $40 billion in 2013 to buy its competitor, TNK-BP.
There is little chance that banks will re-lend to these non-banks the funds they
borrowed
from central banks, given these banks’ own severe liquidity problems and mistrust of non-bank counterparties.
When Egyptians rose up against Mubarak in January, they were confronted by weapons paid for with
borrowed
money.
Apparently, Roosevelt, or his speechwriters,
borrowed
it from A New Deal, a book by Stuart Chase that was published in 1932 and adapted the same year into a cover story for the magazine The New Republic.
Losses in stock markets have a double effect: they reduce households’ wealth and lead them to spend less; and they cause massive losses to investors who
borrowed
to invest in stock, thus triggering margin calls and asset fire sales.
In fact, the answer is simple: Defining Israel’s sins in terms
borrowed
from the Holocaust is Europe’s righteous way to rid itself of its Jewish complex.
And yet the money
borrowed
for infrastructure investment still must be repaid – even if the oil revenues earmarked for that purpose never materialize.
Where was the IMF when fragile Korean banks
borrowed
huge amounts abroad - with overnight maturities - to put the money in Brazilian and Russian bonds?
Americans
borrowed
and shopped until they were blue in the face, thinking that an ever-rising housing price market would wash away all financial sins.
If your debt becomes unsustainable because you
borrowed
too much to take long vacations or buy expensive appliances, your bad behavior is to blame.
Those who
borrowed
recklessly during China’s credit boom are not small private firms or average consumers (household indebtedness in China is very low), but local governments, SOEs, and well-connected real estate developers (many of them family members of government officials).
But, if my colleague had not sent me the book, I would have
borrowed
the copy in my university’s library.
Now Iceland’s banks, having
borrowed
several times the national GDP, are in desperate trouble, with debts far beyond what the small country’s taxpayers can absorb.
Indeed, because Brazilian corporates have
borrowed
extensively in dollars (a consequence of sky-high local interest rates), it could well be that an appreciating currency is expansionary in the short-run: companies can clean up their balance sheets without having to shed workers or curtail investment.
Countries
borrowed
from the IMF only under duress, when all else failed – and when there was simply no other way to pay for essential imports.
Banks will not lend if the economy is in the doldrums, and American households will be particularly reluctant to borrow – at least in the profligate ways they
borrowed
prior to the crisis.
Until the European Central Bank stepped in last August to become the central bank not just of Germany and France, but also of the distressed peripheral countries, the latter were like emerging-market economies that had
borrowed
in foreign currency and faced abrupt capital outflows.
In the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008, South Korea needed dollars, because its firms had
borrowed
in dollars that domestic savers could not fully supply.
Temasek and GIC, the holding companies set up by the government, have used appropriate governance tools
borrowed
from the private sector to fund Singapore’s economic development.
The real estate bubble inflated and collapsed partly because millions of Americans
borrowed
more than they could afford to repay – and knew it.
Since Asia’s banks
borrowed
short-term funds from abroad for long-term domestic investments, there are not enough short-term assets around to allow all investors to get their money out of Asia if all of the investors simultaneously decide to flee the region, as is now happening.
Since the banks are large net international debtors, who have
borrowed
from abroad in dollars (and yen) to re-lend domestically in local currency, the balance sheets of the banks worsen every time the Asian currencies fall further.
This dramatic statement introduces a new pamphlet whose subtitle, “Renaissance or Decay,” I have
borrowed
for this reflection.
It means betting against an asset with
borrowed
money in the expectation of making a profit when its value goes down.
I got by selling the bonds when I
borrowed
them on January 1, minus the €7.2m that I had to pay to repurchase them on June 30, minus the €250,000 in interest that I had to pay Goldman Sachs for the six-month loan.
At the same time, real-estate developers who have
borrowed
heavily from shadow-banking institutions, based on the assumption that property prices would continue to rise steadily, may struggle to repay their debts, with a sharp decline in prices inevitably leading to defaults.
The overriding reasons for attacks on the state, the other side of liberalism’s return, are financial: in the past 30 years governments
borrowed
big-time to parcel out the gains of economic growth.
They would have free use of their own allocations, but the IFIs would supervise how the
borrowed
allocations are used to ensure that the
borrowed
funds are well spent.
Such considerations underscore why it is a mistake to focus only on annual budgets, without adequate regard for the long-term balance-sheet implications of how
borrowed
money is used.
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