Over the past 25 years, the cost of finance has been low and asset prices have generally been rising.
Low interest rates have translated into more purchasing power for homeowners, as the cost to finance homes has gone down.
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Mr. Pearson pointed to the low cost of finance accessible to many German companies and to their often strong performance in export markets.
This is largely presented as a tactic to stimulate the domestic economy by lowering the cost of finance and putting more money into the banking system.
Imagine the increase in our cost of finance if we paid the same rate as Spain or Italy (three times as high) or Greece (double digits).
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The cheaper real cost of finance encourages more property buying.
It is unlikely to do so, however, and the cost of finance rarely makes or breaks firms anyway unless they are already in trouble, says Huw Morgan, head of business banking at HSBC.
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Its cost of finance has definitely increased.
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By providing liquidity to issuers of consumer asset backed paper, the Federal Reserve facility will enable a broad range of institutions to step up their lending, enabling borrowers to have access to lower cost consumer finance and small business loans.
"Current projections suggest we might be facing an escalation of cost, " deputy finance minister Jabu Moleketi announced in Pretoria.
We recognize there are 46 million people without health coverage, and every consumer who has heath insurance and every business that provides it pays a premium to finance the cost of covering people who are uninsured.
But the ultimate plan for payroll taxes is to phase them out entirely in favor of lower cost personal accounts to finance the benefits currently financed by those taxes, as discussed in previous columns in this space.
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We are likely to see the reverse innovation phenomenon in a wide range of industries such as ultra-low-cost transportation, renewable energy, clean water, micro finance, affordable health, low-cost housing, and many others.
In an economy closed to flows of trade and finance, the cost will take the form of lower incomes.
Because they finance the upfront cost of the solar system, they have an constant need for capital to reach scale.
Cricket has partnered with Progressive Finance to cover the cost of its devices, while Metro is using Billfloat as its lending option.
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He reckons that tighter credit and limits on finance for leases have cost his firm a fifth of its sales this year.
And if banks are already paying over the odds for capital and debt, which they are, that must push up the cost and limit the availability of finance for households and businesses.
It does this by using the cost savings from energy efficiency to finance the capital outlays, allowing schools, hospitals, and the like to insulate or install solar panels while sticking to existing budgets, and often producing some savings.
The hard stuff is made up of the classic virtues dear to the hearts of finance and operations people: cost, speed, supply chain, analytics.
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The SPAA say that producers' revenues from broadcast licence fees have remained stagnant for the last decade, while the cost of production has doubled and overseas finance is "drying up".
Moleketi said the government would work out how to finance the shortfall after a detailed cost calculation next month.
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As the government spends more to finance its contingent liabilities, the cost of capital in China should rise, Huang writes.
That is, the only way you actually engage in finance is if you compare the cost of this to the cost of that.
Infrastructure projects in Cornwall paid under the private finance initiative (PFI) will cost nearly six times more than if just government funded, BBC News has learnt.
Citigroup, and the domestic banks, will also be able to raise funds at practically zero cost indeed, their consumer-finance ventures will give them a lucrative place to park their yen deposits (given Japan's dismal investment environment, they have few attractive alternatives).
The boom came to a halt in 1993 when the then Conservative government, worried by the rising cost to the exchequer, stopped providing direct finance for unlimited numbers of places in care homes, and instead gave fixed grants to local councils.
Solar finance is getting more efficient, the cost of panels is falling, and installation is more efficient.
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In finance, investors address changes in the cost of capital by incorporating the two interrelated factors, inflation and interest rates.
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