Ordinarily, a question of whether to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) and to increase its loan limit would be about asuncontroversial a proposition as one could find on Capitol Hill.

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Barack Obama this week proposed to limit loan payments for some struggling American graduates to 10% of discretionary income and forgive outstanding debt after 20 years.

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Under the Obama plan there is no upper limit on this loan-to-value ratio.

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Students will be able to choose to limit their student loan payments to 10% of their income, with any remaining balance forgiven after 20 years.

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On top of Mr Flaherty's measures, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada's banking regulator, slapped a loan-to-value limit of 65% on borrowing against home equity.

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While this brings to mind the pressures that weigh down the student loan market, there is a limit to how far I am willing to go to stretch an analogy.

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Siluanov also said they were not discussing the possibility of providing a new loan to Cyprus as the EU has set a debt limit for Cyprus.

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