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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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Moleketi said the government would work out how to finance the shortfall after a detailed cost calculation next month.
"Current projections suggest we might be facing an escalation of cost, " deputy finance minister Jabu Moleketi announced in Pretoria.
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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.
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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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.
Even when spreads were at their widest, Greece and Ireland, the euro-zone's high-yielders, were able to finance their borrowing needs at a reasonable cost.
Mr Remington said the trust was in administration because it was "drowning in a sea of Private Finance Initiative debt fuelled by the high cost of servicing repayments to private companies".
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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 means that the U.S. can continue to finance its operations by borrowing almost zero-cost money today and likely for the foreseeable future (where do you think capital will flight to if the Euro breaks up?).
An engineer who joined Toshiba in 1953 and rose up the ranks to head the heavy equipment division and later to oversee finance and production, Sato embarked on a cost-cutting exercise and moved to restructure the sprawling company.
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