Will he borrow to spend, only to wish he hadn't, and then gripe about having to repay me?

我儿子会不会借钱消费后又反悔，然后抱怨不得不还钱给我？

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It works when there are enough households or businesses that are willing to borrow to spend.

该工程时有足够的家庭或企业，都愿意借钱消费。

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The second thing is to accelerate the resolution of the home mortgage crisis, which would make businesses more eager to borrow, expand and consumers more willing to spend.

第二件要做的事就是要加快解决房贷危机。 这样，企业将更愿意参与借贷和拓展业务，消费者也更愿意花钱消费。

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But he also says Americans cannot return to a "borrow-and-spend economy."

VOA: special.2009.05.29

So, government should go and borrow to spend, doing the dissaving that no one else will, to get the economy out of that hole.

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The Chinese government controls the banks, thus it can make them lend, and it can force state-owned enterprises (one-third of the economy) to borrow and to spend.

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George Osborne's move today is designed to allow the Bank of England to play a bigger part in generating growth, due to the government's self-enforced inability to borrow more to spend on infrastructure etc.

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