Sometimes, cheap government housing is so remote that no one wants to live there.
The result of cheap money and government mis-direction capital was an enormous bubble followed by 20 years of stagnation.
After all, many analysts think shares look cheap relative to government bonds.
This comes after numerous complaints that some agencies and businesses have been offering low grade apprenticeships that only last for a few weeks or even months, in exchange for cheap labour and government funding.
Coal on the global market is so cheap that it threatens government attempts to tackle climate change, the chairman of the Environment Agency has warned.
Hong Kong's public health service is cheap, reflecting the government's policy that no one should be denied adequate care because of a lack of means.
Second, the hiring of these workers does not come cheap as there are government filing fees and legal fees that run in the thousands of dollars.
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But talk is cheap: non-government organisations give warning that even development goals agreed by the G8 just three years ago at Gleneagles in Scotland appear to be slipping.
"Early on the U.S. trailed way behind Europe in making these things cheap because the federal government got so caught up in regulating cell phones, " says TIME business editor William Saporito.
Another Sunni man, who also asked not to be named, said the Syrian government distributed cheap fuel to communities sympathetic to the regime -- fuel that was not offered to rebel-held towns.
According to him, other countries' miserly consumers and institutions, faced with a dearth of good investment opportunities at home, are pouring their savings into American credit markets, providing ultra-cheap funds for the government, and American consumers, to borrow.
Ballot initiatives, the crack cocaine of democracy, have left only around a quarter of its budget within the power of its representative politicians. (One reason budget cuts are inevitable is that voters rejected tax increases in a package of ballot measures in May.) Not that Californian government comes cheap: it has the second-highest top level of state income tax in America (after Hawaii, of all places).
With only limited access to cheap borrowing, the Angolan government has turned to commercial, oil-backed debt.
In August Brazil's trade and industry minister Fernando Pimentel unveiled tax breaks, cheap credit and a misconceived government preference for buying local.
Similar to many markets nationwide, Kansas City developers delivered a number of new projects financed with generous local-government incentives and cheap bank debt.
To stem the widespread use of cheap foreign labour, the government forced companies to fill at least 30% of their positions with Saudis.
Thames Valley Police is to recruit an extra 250 volunteer officers, but has denied it is policing on the cheap in the face of government cuts.
In December, the government extended a cheap loans program for exporters by an year and also added engineering-goods companies to the list of beneficiaries under the program.
Government shipments of cheap rice had arrived in the village.
That estimate does not include all manner of subsidies doled out to the fossil-fuel industry, ranging from cheap access to oil on government land to the ongoing American military presence in the Middle East.
On the first question, yes, stocks are cheap compared to 10-year government bonds yields.
The bubble and the bust had many causes, including cheap money, outdated regulation, government distortions and poor supervision.
The government this month offered cheap credit to producers of shoes, textiles and furniture who are struggling in the face of Chinese competition.
Iranians often see cheap petrol as proof that the government is redistributing oil wealth back to the people one of Mr Ahmadinejad's big election promises.
The Kenyan government was worried that cheap hooch was making people seriously ill, so it offered to excuse Diageo from excise duty if it produced a cut-price beer.
In December, the government had extended a cheap loans program for exporters by a year and had also added engineering-goods exporters to the list of companies that can take such loans.
Isn't Mr Schily's move just a cheap way of showing that the government is doing something about neo-Nazism, in response to popular demand four-fifths of Germans share it that something should be done?
They could privatize government assets on the cheap, for example, with confidence they could recover the money later by nailing U.S. buyers with a one-time tax those companies could deduct from their U.S. tax bill.
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The government says it may subsidise cheap WiBro imports as it is doing now for mobile phones.
Mr Garcia says that while the government can afford to produce cheap books through national state-run publishers, the situation for foreign editorials is much tougher.
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