Students are already borrowing at record levels to keep up with rising tuition costs.
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Asian companies are taking advantage of the renewed enthusiasm from the U.S., borrowing at record low rates.
The changes come at a time when students are borrowing at record levels to keep up with rising tuition costs.
Also, to state the bloomin' obvious, although the government is still borrowing near record amounts, it too is desperately trying to deleverage, by squeezing public spending.
The Fed is expected to keep borrowing costs at record low levels despite signs of a strengthening economy.
The fallout from Greece's financial difficulties had raised the cost of Ireland's borrowing to a record 3 percentage points over the German benchmark rate.
Mr Brown seems to be fighting the last war: fear-mongering claims about spending cuts which worked in 2001 and 2005, when money was cascading into the Treasury and voters viewed the Tories as malign, are less persuasive at a time of record borrowing and sunnily rebranded opponents.
Parts of southern Europe are in depression and must pay high interest rates, while Germany enjoys record low borrowing costs.
The day before, Spain's borrowing rates too had hit record highs (see article).
Today's August public finance numbers are a case in point, with another record amount of borrowing for that month.
The gap between Spanish and German long-term borrowing rates also reached a record high, as did the cost of insuring against a Spanish sovereign default.
Sekerbank had hoped to be the latest Turkish lender to benefit from record-low borrowing costs by seeking to sell the bond at a yield of just above 5%.
On Tuesday, the cost of government borrowing spiked at a new record of 6.76% after the vote, around the 7% threshold at which Portugal and Ireland were forced to accept bailouts.
Record-low borrowing costs in the market for junk bonds, where LBOs are financed, is combining with rising confidence in the financial system to boost bets that a successful Dell deal will be followed by others.
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Germany's borrowing costs fell to fresh record lows at an auction Wednesday as the prospect of new elections in Greece and the cash-strapped country's possible exit from the euro zone sparked an investor flight to safety.
The one piece of good news is that the overall fiscal picture has improved of late because of record-low borrowing costs, the sequester, and a surge in revenues over the past six months due to higher tax rates (and their anticipation last year).
The government's commitment to rein in public borrowing has helped us avoid all the financial market tumult of Greece, Italy and the rest - but that has perhaps allowed our real economy to falter that much earlier, while our government's cost of borrowing has fallen to a record low.
Even before the new law, bankruptcy rates have been rising, fuelled by a rapid rise in consumer debt, especially credit card borrowing and personal loans, which have reached record levels.
In late July of 2012, borrowing costs for Spain and Italy had reached record heights, while the German Constitutional Court was weighing the constitutionality of the European Stability Mechanism under German law.
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The markets appeared to calm amid hopes that the economist would take over the reins shortly, correspondents say, and borrowing levels fell back from the previous day's record highs.
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The cost of borrowing for Italy's government has reached a new eurozone record of 6.29% in its latest bond auction.
Start out by borrowing small amounts of money for your businesses to establish a track record, said Arora.
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He pointed to "record low interest rates" and a lower cost of government borrowing as a sign that the coalition was doing the right thing, and accused Labour of wanting "even more government borrowing" and of having "no credible response" to economic difficulties.
Record high unemployment in Eurozone countries has left many nations finding that borrowing costs are too high to allow government debt to be serviced without imposing crushing taxes and broken promises on the populous.
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Right at the opening, there was a spike in the implicit interest cost to Italy of borrowing for two years (the yield on two-year bonds) to a euro-era record of around 8% - and then it fell back to 7.5% or so, which is where it was on Friday (which is still high).
With the Bank of England's Bank rate still at a record low of just 0.5%, the expectation is that the official cost of borrowing can only go up when it is next changed.
All of which is a long-winded way of explaining why the borrowing costs of the government perceived to be most financially over-stretched, Spain, have soared today to record levels - in that the dispute over whether to go for a banking union shows that the eurozone is as far as ever it was from a fundamental solution to its woes.
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