Another option--which can also increase your fossil's value--is to lend it to a museum for study.
Despite low interest rates and more money to lend, there were no borrowers to lend it to.
Then they, believe it or not, give it to the banks, which then lend it to the Federal Government.
We ask them a very simple question: if this money were yours would you lend it to this person?
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But when an hour of your time is worth thousands of dollars, why lend it to the creative arts?
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Instead, the funds will be allowed to deposit some gold with banks who in turn can lend it to jewelers, which in theory should reduce imports for a time.
Why do the High Street banks pay us a tenth of 1% on our money but charge us 15% or more when they lend it to us and twice that if we go overdrawn?
Once you buy a book, music CD, or movie DVD in the United States, you are free to later sell it, lend it to a friend, or donate it to a library or charity without seeking permission from the copyright owner.
But first Greece must overcome the political deficit among euro-zone states: they may no longer want to push Greece out, but neither do they want to lend it more billions to keep it in.
To ease the burden on Greece, ministers seem ready to lend it money to buy back existing bonds, and to lower the interest rate they charge on loans.
It was seamlessly interchangeable with currency, and banks had an incentive to keep it moving, to lend it out or otherwise invest it.
In theory it was supposed to get more cash into the hands of banks that would use it to lend to businesses and consumers.
They lend it back to the U.S. so Americans can buy more from them.
They take our money and then they lend it back to us and own now a big part of the United States.
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Under consideration is a stark warning to Greece's creditors that they'll only get their money back as it falls due if they immediately lend it back to Greece.
The foreigners lend it back to the U.S. government.
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Sure enough, the Fed's actions Sunday, including lowering the rate it charges banks to lend directly from it and opening its discount window to Wall Street brokerages, didn't save Bear Stearns from collapse.
Just as the Fed insisted on more oversight of investment banks when it agreed to lend to them in March, it will now have the authority to inspect the books of AIG any time it chooses.
At the same time, the ECB has apparently now said that it won't directly lend to some Greek banks that it judges to be technically "insolvent".
And, perhaps more important, both those who work for RBS and those who lend to it would be more confident that some further downturn in economic conditions was not going to generate humungous additional losses.
The crisis in Europe has actually made it more attractive to lend to the United States, so it's easy to pretend the deficit and the debt don't matter.
It will offer to lend to investors who want to buy property from it.
For every detractor who thinks the Fund should lend less, there is someone who wants it to lend more.
Under the scheme, if a bank's capital falls below 8% of its risk assets, the recommended minimum for institutions doing business abroad, the state would either lend money to it, buy its shares - or nationalize it.
Italian banks are suffering and are less willing to lend, making it harder for ordinary businesses to borrow money.
And, sooner or later, when those postponed debts must finally be paid, Russia will find itself in much the same place it has been until now: out of cash, and desperate for someone to lend it money.
But lending it to the banks to lend to us is not the answer.
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This is one of the calculations you should make before deciding to lend them money and it should certainly inform the interest rate at which you are willing to lend that money.
Data should be cross-checked wherever possible, by asking banks what they would charge to lend as well as what it costs them to borrow.
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