Refinance any long-term debt now (without increasing the amount borrowed or adding to the term) and lower your overall cost of borrowing.
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Each Scorecard includes five key pieces of data about a college: costs, graduation rate, loan default rate, average amount borrowed, and employment.
The interactive College Scorecard gives students and families five key pieces of data about a college: costs, graduation rate, loan default rate, average amount borrowed, and employment.
They, among other things, cannot have certain risky features like negative-amortization, where the amount owed actually increases for some period because the borrower does not even pay the interest and the unpaid interest gets added to the amount borrowed.
The going annualized interest rate paid by those who borrowed shares in the social networking company was anywhere from 10% to 40% on the amount borrowed on Friday, compared with 0.25% to 0.5% for the typical big-company stock, according to Robert Sloan, managing partner of S3 Partners, a New York firm that advises hedge funds on counterparty risk and financing of trade.
That would have curbed the amount they borrowed meaning that the country might not actually be bankrupt now.
The investment strategy pursued by Reijtenbagh was thus hugely leveraged, given the amount of borrowed funds the underlying private equity funds used to make their portfolio investments.
In theory this policy of buying and cancelling some of the debt would reduce Greece's indebtedness, because the market price of its bonds is a fraction of the amount originally borrowed: if the EFSF paid 50m euros for Greek bonds with a face value of 100m euros, and agreed that Greece should have an obligation to replay only the 50m euros, that would reduce Greece's indebtedness by 50m euros.
Third, a decline in property prices also leaves some households with homes worth less than the amount they have borrowed, so housing busts have a greater effect on banks, which are typically heavily exposed to real estate.
The value of any particular home, and the amount that can be borrowed against it, is largely determined by whatever a similar house nearby sells for.
Shadow Minister for Finance Nick Ramsay AM stressed that a cap should be set on the amount that can be borrowed and called on the Welsh government to be more specific in regards to what projects would be funded with the additional money.
Meanwhile, margin debt, or the amount of money that investors have borrowed to invest in stocks, is climbing.
So it would not need many Zopas to be created for the amount of money that's being borrowed and lent almost free from any serious regulatory oversight to be really quite substantial.
In the space of 4 years during World War II, we borrowed the equivalent of three to five times the amount we'd need to borrow to save Social Security over a 20-year period.
Not only is California experiencing pension deficits, but the amount of money the state owes the rest of American taxpayers for cash borrowed from the Feds to pay Californians unemployment payments is shocking and unfair to the rest of the nation.
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Until now, the mobile hotspot market has given users essentially two basic payment plans, both of which are borrowed from the phone market: You can prepay for some fixed amount of data and re-up when you run out, or you can plop down a monthly fee for a capped per-month allocation of bits.
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If you buy a junk bond with borrowed funds, you collect the high coupon on the bond while paying out a lower amount, presumably not too much more than what the U.S. government pays to borrow money.
That's why a dividend investor focuses on the business, not the stock, and makes sure that the amount (high, relative to the price paid for the shares), quality (high, not borrowed or about to be cut) and trajectory (modestly positive) of the dividend are all as they should be.
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