What about the Fed's mutterings about people borrowing against the value of their stocks?
Owners also borrow against the value of their sports teams for their businesses outside of sports and their personal use.
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Financiers were growing fabulously wealthy in the early 2000s, but others could also borrow ever more against the value of their home.
That could push down farmland values by half, a recipe for ruin for those who have borrowed against the value of their property.
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As this happens, consumers will be less ready to borrow against the value of their homes in order to maintain their living standards.
This year, regulators required Chinese banks to maintain a reserve of 2.5% against the value of their total loan portfolios as provision for bad debt.
Those loans allow investors to borrow against the value of their securities in their brokerage accounts, but the proceeds are traditionally reinvested in the market.
He understands that smart business owners are right now hedging their bets against the value of our currency and diversifying some of their investments into hard assets, like real estate and gold.
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And while there are plenty of studies for and against the value of social media in B2B marketing in general and manufacturing specifically, it is unequivocal that how customers choose to learn is changing quickly for even the most marketing-driven companies.
But she warns that before you go this route, you should weigh the benefit of a 5% lower marginal rate (that is paying 55% instead of 60% while the estate is in surtax territory) against the value of deferring more of the taxes until the second spouse dies.
The impact of this portfolio balancing will not only alter the value of the yuan against the dollar, but it will also likely change the value of the dollar against the other major currencies of the world.
Under this provision, according to Mass Mutual, if any premium payment is not made by the end of the grace period, the amount due will automatically become a loan against the cash value of the policy, provided there is sufficient value in the policy.
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Then there is the price-to-book ratio, which measures a company's stockmarket value against the book value of its assets.
Measuring economic costs weighs the expense of both vaccination and illness against the net present value of the future earnings of someone who would otherwise die from the disease.
Since the abandonment of Bretton Woods, the dollar has lost 77% of its value against the GDP deflator and 97% of its value relative to gold.
Each unit of Terra currency would be charged each year a transaction fee of 3.5% to 4%, assessed against the face value of the currency, depreciating its backing by that amount.
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Japan's gold market is heating up after the Bank of Japan said last week that it would flood the economy with new money, pushing down the value of the yen against the dollar and other major currencies and pushing up the value of gold in Japan.
Moreover, compared with 1999, a bigger slice of those capital gains has, in effect, been turned into cash by households borrowing against the higher value of their homes.
When house prices rise, some home-owners borrow against the increased value of their property.
Baby-boomers can chuck the day job at 60 or 65 and head off into the perma-tanned sunset (they will probably prove freakishly long-lived), borrowing against the inflated value of their houses as they do so.
Consumers have borrowed more money against the rising value of their homes, allowing them to extract some of their capital gains and so spend more than their income: the saving rate has fallen from 9% in 1990 to minus 2% last year.
No longer the automatic safe haven of choice, the dollar has lost around 10% of its value against the euro since the start of the year (and has fallen at a similar pace against the Japanese yen).
This is part of a continuing trend in which central banks have increased their gold reserves as a way of hedging or protecting against the fall in value of their holdings of paper money like the dollar and the euro.
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And the value of the Iranian currency, the rial, has lost at least half of its value against the U.S. dollar from a year ago.
He foresees the potential of shareholder lawsuits against the company and of a sharp drop in the value of its stock.
Iran's currency, the rial, is also believed to have lost 80% of its value against the dollar since the start of the year.
Iran's currency, the Rial, is also believed to have lost 80% of its value against the dollar since the beginning of 2012, making imports prohibitively expensive.
Lentz said Toyota would continue to move production to North America as a hedge against fluctuations in the value of the yen versus the dollar.
Thousands of former BA staff are in revolt against cuts in the future value of their pensions.
To narrow the deficit by two percentage points by the end of the decade, they reckon the greenback would have to lose about a quarter of its current value (as measured against the currencies of America's major trading partners) by the end of this year.
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