Since the concept of achieving is elusive and hard to define, I thought I would borrow a time-tested technique from the comedian and entertainer Jeff Foxworthy.
It is also likely that GE Capital will find it more expensive to borrow for some time to come.
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The U.S. government can borrow at all time low interest rates and despite the rapid increase in debt, economic growth is sluggish but not disastrous.
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Time, to borrow a theme from our FORBES colleague George Gilder, is the new scarcity.
GDP, the government can borrow quite heavily for some time to finance investment without breaching the first rule.
The basic problem is that in our economy there are quite a lot of people who would like to borrow for quite a long time.
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Underscoring the importance of the deal, Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said that in addition to dipping into its deep pile of cash, Microsoft will borrow money for the first time to make the deal happen.
His student loan program will allow students for the first time ever to borrow money at low cost from the federal government and pay it back as a low fixed percentage of income for up to 20 years.
Underscoring the importance of the deal, Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said that in addition to dipping into its deep pile of cash, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) will borrow money for the first time to make the deal happen.
Of course if you needed money in the mean time, you could borrow against the policy.
Do you remember the first time you tried to borrow money?
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The deficit they create now is finite and can be paid for later, just as homeowners borrow now for a one-time payment, incurring a finite debt they pay off over time.
"It has been an opportune time for corporate borrowers from Eastern Europe to tap the international bond markets, with many Russian, Kazakh and Ukrainian names taking advantage of the stretch for yield to borrow in dollars for the first time since the global crisis, " says Richard Segal, emerging-market strategist at Jefferies International.
However, much of this benefit would be lost over time if government has to borrow money in order to finance those rate cuts or makes poor choices in its search for offsetting tax hikes or spending cuts.
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An agency called the British Bankers Association surveys a group of banks everyday asks the following: If you were to borrow money this morning at 11am London time what you would have to pay for it?
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The bill gives the Scottish government new powers over income tax and the ability to borrow funds for capital investment for the first time.
If you lend or borrow large amounts or for long periods of time then the arrangement fee becomes negligible as a percentage of the loan and thus the APR falls.
Jindal's comments come a day after the House passed a bill to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid a first-time default for at least four months, defusing a looming crisis setting up a springtime debate over taxes, spending and the deficit.
Ahmad Nassri, 20, who played indoor soccer with Mr. Tsarnaev, said Mr. Tsarnaev owned a messy Honda Civic, but occasionally he would borrow the black BMW. "One time I called him rich when he showed up in a BMW, and he was like, 'No dude, this is my friends' car, ' " Mr. Nassri said.
But we have to borrow a shovel -- ours passed on some time ago.
Whether we should run deficits is a much more complicated question. (The following borrows heavily from a terrific paper by Doug Elmendorf and Greg Mankiw.) We should borrow to finance investments that will pay off over time.
On Tuesday, the central bank said it is expanding its securities lending operations, allowing big Wall Street firms to borrow for longer periods and, for the first time, exchange triple-A mortgages not backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac for Treasury bonds.
An additional factor in a buyout is financing the buyout, you can use cash, borrow the money, or pay the other party over time.
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She could also borrow bridge financing from the Treasury to cover for the time lapse between a bank failure and the sale of its assets.
Some first time buyers in Jersey will be able to borrow the deposit for a house from the government interest free as part of a trial scheme.
Well, it may be hard to borrow your way out of debt, but sometimes it buys time, andtime is money.
You borrow against your equity, and the loan balance grows over time.
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The European Central Bank thought it was rescuing the eurozone's banks by providing them with more than a trillion euros of cheap three-year loans, at a time when they were finding it dangerously difficult to borrow.
But Selig let it be known that he wanted to break up with McCourt for along time now, and if the Dodgers were to borrow from MLB the league would have much more say in how the team is run and to whom and when it was sold.
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