Local governments cannot borrow directly so they borrow through investment vehicles instead.
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But they also note that if exceeding that level of debt is safe, why do governments so rarely borrow that much.
Never in history have so many middle class households been able to borrow so much against real estate at such low mortgage rates.
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So it is strange that the games would borrow so much from an animated short film, especially without involving Hibon or anyone else on the project.
That may not be a problem at the moment, when companies and consumers are so reluctant to borrow.
The French wanted the fund to become a bank so it could borrow from the European Central Bank (ECB).
Now there are two competing explanations for why he can borrow so cheaply.
In some cases, their homes have fallen in value so they cannot borrow enough to pay off the older loans.
In fact, it allowed them to borrow so much that eight have collapsed in the past year, and the rest are wobbling.
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Their ability to borrow so much has a lot to do with lenders' astonishingly generous attitudes to companies with apparently over-extended balance sheets.
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He wants the bloc's permanent rescue fund (the ESM) to be given a banking licence so it can borrow directly from the European Central Bank.
If that's not feasible, he says, Europe can try to "recreate the bubble" by bringing back the conditions that allowed Spain to borrow so cheaply.
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Instead Greece used the comfort cushion of an 8% reduction in debt service charges to borrow so that profligate state benefit programmes could be expanded in a quest to by votes.
So, for this to be a realistic proposal, Germany needs to be willing to allow the ESM to obtain a banking licence, so it can borrow much larger amounts from the ECB.
So rather than borrow the 19bn euros from third-party investors in the normal way, the Spanish government wants to give Bankia 19bn euros of its bonds in return for a majority stake in the bank - or so the FT says.
So, they have to keep paying the interest in order to be able to borrow more money so as to pay all of these things.
They realize the need to keep interest rates low so job-creating corporations can borrow and invest at a reasonable return, and so low mortgage rates can help work through the glut of unsold homes that will gradually get the new home market active again.
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This will directly give those who CAN BORROW do so at the lowest rate possible to save money.
So how can lawyers borrow money at usurious rates and still prosecute a case fairly and solely in the interest of their clients?
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Instead, it is trying to ensure that limits are placed on the amount hedge funds can borrow, so that any fund failure hurts only its own investors.
The two families kept their rear yards open, separated by a row of hedges with an opening, so that they could borrow each other's yard when holding parties or barbeques.
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Although Norinchukin is not legally obliged to rescue them, it will come under political pressure to do so, weakening its deteriorating credit rating and so its ability to borrow internationally at what are by Japanese standards cheap rates in the markets.
At present, the main ploy is fixing interest to low levels so the government can borrow money from its captive savers at below commercial rates, while eroding its debts via inflation rising faster than the rate of interest at which it borrows.
The advantage of using the ESM is that "instead of the Spanish state going to the market and paying 7% on its debt, so that it can then pump money into the banks, the ESM could borrow at 3% or so, " Barbieri says.
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His preference: pay shareholders more for holding the stock, and borrow to do so if necessary.
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Local governments, which were not permitted to borrow, did so with gusto by resorting to various subterfuges.
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That forces the countries to borrow more, so forcing up accumulated debt.
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