Clinton also called on Congress to take additional steps to help farmers, including expanded eligibility for loans and more flexibility in subsidy programs so farmers can plant other crops when their primary crops fail.

CNN: Clinton

An even more market-friendly approach would be to fund these loans into an administered fund in the IMF, which would provide more flexibility for the loans, but would not guarantee that countries are willing to accept direct credit risk from recipient countries.

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Interest margins will inevitably be squeezed because of the new rules allowing banks flexibility on setting rates for deposits and loans.

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Within the last month, USDA has opened the Conservation Reserve Program to emergency haying and grazing, has lowered the borrower interest rate for emergency loans, and has called on crop insurance companies to provide more flexibility to farmers.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Their pledges include greater flexibility for working parents, more affordable childcare and cheap grants or loans to renovate empty housing.

BBC: David Cameron with wife Samantha

If they can get those mortgages off their balance sheets, even if for just a short while, they will have more flexibility to make new loans.

FORBES: Try, Try Again

With Greece now surviving on European loans, some spy an opportunity for its EU creditors, many of whom find Greek intransigence tiresome, to demand more flexibility over the long-running dispute.

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