It is used in circumstances where banks are reluctant to lend for property purchases.
Is the government missing an opportunity, or is Mr. Market not in the mood to lend for 30 years?
In particular, they tend to lend for short periods and then only against collateral with a high credit rating.
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The money we were prepared to lend for that operation could have stabilized the peso at its old value, which would have quickly stemmed the crisis.
Along the way, we helped start a group called Lend for America (LFA), which seeks to enable college students at campuses across the country to start microfinance groups.
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And what's more you commit to lend for a certain length of time - and you can only get your money back quickly if someone else is prepared to buy your loans from you.
In the past ordinary investors have been shut out of the solar boom, as most projects obtain equity or debt financing from banks and corporations, which lately are not so eager to lend for solar projects.
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The assumption was that if every bank was told it could not lend - for example - more than 20 times its capital, large numbers of those banks would lend everything they could to reckless gamblers prepared to pay the highest interest rates, till gamblers and banks went bust.
So would the World Bank today lend money for an Aswan dam if it did not already exist?
Stars demand high fees, banks refuse to lend money for film-making, so the industry has depended on mafia finance.
Add the risks of construction delays, licensing complications and public opposition, and good luck finding a bank that wants to lend money for a new plant.
Another important note from that State of the Union is that FDR called for the Lend-Lease act for Britain, which was then at war with Germany.
That means we lend money for long-term investments, investments which could otherwise be financed only under big difficulties because of interest rates or the length of a loan.
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The AFJP system in Latin American has helped create a vast stock of domestic savings that can fund local capital markets and lend money for projects like toll roads.
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The LTRO can be seen, and is seen by bankers, as a hidden injection of capital into the banks by eurozone taxpayers - because the banks borrow the three-year money at 1% and can re-lend it for considerably more.
The Supreme Court rejected that idea, saying once the publisher had sold a book, the new owner could resell it for whatever price he wanted, or even lend it out for free (see: public libraries).
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Last year, China decided to cool the property market, by making it harder for many banks to lend and more difficult for consumers to get home loans.
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The reduction of rollover risk, in turn, should increase the willingness of private investors to lend, particularly for terms longer than overnight.
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She had checked herself into eight clinics with phantom illnesses and persuaded the other female patients to lend her money for a child (also phantom) who was going hungry at home.
"We have been approached and if we can lend our weight for doing something for the good of Manchester United and football we will, " Harris told BBC Sport's Football Focus show.
The decision to lend more money for mortgages comes after UK mortgage lending as a whole fell 13% in January from the previous month to the lowest level for a year.
Italian merchants might, for example, lend to English sheep farmers or wool merchants, in return for lower prices.
The team at Giant Ant were great work partners, and they offered to lend me their services for a project down the road.
This banking regulator allowed half the community banks in our country to lend too much money for Construction and Development loans and other commercial Real Estate loans.
The road bends just five times in the 21 miles north of the Arizona border, and drivers have noticed that the straightaways lend plenty of room for acceleration.
In the case of interest rates, the determinative factors should be the supply of savings available to lend and the demand for money by people and business who want to borrow.
It fell to 10% in 1941 because of jobs created for the Lend-Lease program, declined further after the U.S. sent troops into battle, and by the war's end stood at 2%.
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But today, when banks are hoarding cash in case they need it and are unwilling to lend to each other for anything longer than a day at a time, loans lasting three months, for instance, are being replaced with overnight ones.
It would be nice to think there is a "free lunch" available here - a cost-free way for the government to lend its good standing in the financial markets to worthy private projects, to make it easier for them to raise the money they need.
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