His Alerion TALF fund borrowed funds from the government at mostly fixed rates of between 2% and 2.46%.
Factories and buildings are built because they have a use, not just because borrowed funds are easy to find.
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But many banks simply deposited the borrowed funds back at the ECB, which pays no interest on such funds.
Most market watchers believe that Britain ranks below Australia and New Zealand as a destination for cheap borrowed funds.
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After coming under pressure from investors, however, it resumed and ramped up the repurchases, in part by using borrowed funds.
When the economy and financial system are truly functioning and healthy again, the FDIC could levy assessments and repay the borrowed funds.
Bank and other types of debt financing have their place, but loans have to be repaid, so borrowed funds must be invested conservatively.
Such a fund could use borrowed funds from ECB to acquire trillions of euros of sovereign debt and thus stabilise the markets for these bonds.
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.
The yen, yielding just 0.5%, was a cheap source of borrowed funds to buy much higher-yielding currencies like the New Zealand dollar, oil, U.S. high-yield bonds or even gold.
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The requirement that borrowings be collateralized (to the extent possible) would give the Russian government and its large enterprises like Gazprom pause before borrowed funds were diverted for non-productive political purposes (e.g. proliferation).
Avoidance of conditionality, discipline and collateral in the process of attracting borrowed funds -- offering a new avenue to circumvent the compliance milestones embodied in such mechanisms as International Monetary Fund stand-by arrangements.
So they self-financed and borrowed funds from family.
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This, in turn, provided Moscow center with substantial flexibility in the diversion of borrowed funds to finance communist party activities at home and abroad, as well as foreign operations inimical to vital Western security interests.
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.
Borrowed funds, typically from a financial institution.
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In a book to be published in November, Wu Jinglian, China's most respected economist, notes that until a decade ago provincial branches of commercial banks borrowed funds directly from provincial offices of the central bank and lent them to local customers.
All Stern had to do was personally guarantee the loans if the entities that borrowed the funds wound up in bankruptcy court.
There is every reason to be especially concerned about the diversion by East Germany of borrowed Western funds for purposes harmful to vital Western interests.
In a sign of the runaway jitters that are pounding bank stocks, Credit Suisse Group and UBS AG denied they borrowed the funds, saying their liquidity remains strong.
For years, hedge funds borrowed money in Japan at next to nothing and employed the capital in the fixed-income sector here.
But what if funds borrowed to pay back the Social Security Trust Fund came at least in part from the Federal Reserve through Quantitative Easing?
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As a result of exploding credit card issuance, products could be bought (with funds borrowed at usurious rates) that would become worthless long before they were ever paid off.
In the chaos the funds borrowed massive sums to keep afloat and abandoned the strategies that had backfired so badly--yet they issued opaque, generally sanguine updates to their investors, the suits allege.
The total current budget deficit in the last administration was at least a trillion dollars higher than reported because the maze of government accounting allows funds borrowed from government units, such as the Social Security Trust Fund, to be included with revenue.
Obama pours borrowed or seized funds into boondoggles like subsidies for toy electric cars that blow up like Spinal Tap drummers and high-speed rail for the 12 people who want to take trains in California, and allows the federal workforce to grow by over 100, 000 bodies.
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In other words the solution is the same as it ever was, and may be as politically impossible as ever it was: the Germany government would need to provide official underwriting for the funds borrowed by the Italian, Spanish and other eurozone governments, what is known as mutualisation of borrowing, to reduce their borrowing costs and provide assurance of credit supply.
The bank got itself into difficulty as it borrowed most of its funds from the global wholesale money markets.
Many funds use borrowed money to leverage higher returns, but that can cause the price to collapse if managers are forced to cut the dividend.
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