Microlending has launched a revolution in the provision of democratic finance to those unable to borrow from formal financial markets.

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And the big fear is that that will particular hurt those homeowners, those communities that are often have hard times getting access to the formal credit markets.

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Mr Osborne's advisers would say any increase in investment that is large enough to have a material effect on the recovery would set off alarm bells in the markets, even if the formal deficit plan had not been undermined.

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Much of modern macroeconomics has been about how, and whether, his ideas fit into the formal microeconomic building blocks of rational behaviour and complete markets.

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In a note today, CIBC World Markets analyst Mara Goldstein said the investigation is not yet a formal one, but could become one.

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Financial markets stand ready to dump Belgian bonds at any hint of formal partition, because of uncertainty over who would repay the country's debts.

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Some say that a formal debt-restructuring system will raise the cost of borrowing and frighten skittish markets.

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The ad hoc response to the Greek crisis may partly reflect a fear that a formal set-up with a staff, budget and the ability to raise funds in capital markets would be too close to a fiscal union for many countries to stomach.

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It overrates formal bookish education and underrates on-the-job training, as well as U.S. capital markets, dynamism and resiliency.

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One might imagine also conducting formal stress tests, not at the firm level as occurs now, but for a range of firms and markets simultaneously.

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