So is there a little bit of a -- are they caught in the middle, if you will, between the White House saying you should lend more, and the regulators saying, maybe you shouldn't lend more?
But he didn't lend much of a hand to European leaders attending tonight's summit.
Perhaps the reason they stood out was because the prison system didn't lend itself to excellence.
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Much of the tablet's body is white plastic, which certainly doesn't lend it a premium feel.
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Plus, the shape of a bottle doesn't lend itself to tight, orderly packing on a large scale.
"The lifestyle of the busy business traveler doesn't lend itself to the greatest health maintenance, " Kozarsky says.
It said it won't make loans without down payments and won't lend to borrowers with credit scores below 600.
Despite many requests, he's resisted soccer balls, because the elaborate, multipanel design doesn't lend itself to his careful, handmade approach.
They have argued that technology, legal, risk-management and other divisions don't lend themselves to this type of measurement, these people said.
And, to say it again, when banks can't borrow, they can't lend.
Yet David Cole, president of the Center for Automotive Research, cautions that the complexities of car making doesn't lend itself to simplistic approaches.
But if Germany won't lend to its eurozone partners, who should?
For one, he says, banks don't lend to women easily because a significant number of them work from home and are not a part of the formal economy.
Banks won't lend the money until much more drilling is done, serious engineering work is completed and a feasibility study is presented sometime in 2004 that shows how much copper and gold can be mined at a profit.
"If you look in Europe -- in particular core Europe -- what you see is people don't have any hope and so what they do is they don't spend, and firms don't invest and banks don't lend, " said Blanchard.
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Well, if you're a bank, that's a big problem, because if the value of your assets is falling and you have to start doing all these write-downs, you know, you can't lend as much because banks have capital requirements.
So, for example, you can't lend money from your IRA to your brother or use your own contracting firm to remodel a dilapidated investment property owned by your IRA. Those who violate this rule, even inadvertently, risk being taxed immediately on the entire IRA balance.
But here's the thing (and sorry for springing this on you now): investors have been taking exceptionally low interest rates from the British government precisely because they don't want to lend to Spain or Italy, they don't want to increase their eurozone exposure, and they've got to put their cash somewhere.
If you are buying and selling listed options then you don't have to lend shares as part of the same transaction and you probably don't have to worry.
Which is fine because, really, such considerations don't politely lend themselves to normal conversation.
They are folks who know their customers, don't just lend them money but also provide them advice if they're entrepreneurs and getting started.
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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".
Bankers don't like to lend into a trade with such a high failure rate.
Whereas it can indeed, risk free, lend out money at the T-Bill rate.
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The point is that those who lend to banks can't be sure where the fatal direct exposures to Greece, or Portugal, or Ireland lie.
The difference between rates in the overnight lending markets and rates in the longer-term markets, a gap that is widening, suggests banks aren't willing to lend much to each other.
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