And then obviously a measure that we believe will have bipartisan support to create an infrastructure bank to leverage the public loans to private sector companies that want to help us rebuild our bridges and highways and airports.
The provost of University College, London, Malcolm Grant, said better-off students who did not need public loans would be able simply to bypass the funding system - so they would get a free university education and universities would get no financial benefit from their participation.
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Basically, what happened is that they get rid of the vast majority of people who were on the public housing loans.
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More important was last autumn's massive injection of public capital, loans and loan guarantees into the financial system, and this spring's bank stress tests.
One of the provisions of a major education bill passed Friday would forgive the balance on Federal Direct Loans for public service employees who have made at least 10 years worth of payments on those loans.
And subsidies are not accounted for to Congress like other items of public spending because the loans are backed by assets from borrowers, so they do not increase net public debt.
The government raised the pay of public employees, forgave the loans of small farmers and expanded its public-works scheme for the rural poor.
Since most bank loans and public debt are in dollars, the devaluation of the currency has only made things worse.
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KAMCO's right to use fresh public funds to buy non-performing loans ran out last November, and its public remit expires in 2005.
Estimates by The Economist suggest that 93% of restructured loans sit with public lenders.
The banks (themselves state-owned, for the most part) still dole out almost half their loans to ailing public enterprises.
It was eventually accomplished by farmers' co-operatives, municipalities and public utilities backed by federal loans whose default rate was less than 1%.
If the borrower goes into the public sector, then his loans will be forgiven after 10 years and the IRS will not consider the forgiven balance taxable.
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With nearly two-thirds of college students taking out loans to attend public and private schools, and prices to attend schools continuing to climb, this is a problem that is impacting more and more students and their families in ways that are, at times, economically dangerous.
Savings banks could take in deposits from the public and make personal and home loans.
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And public service workers can have their loans forgiven after 10 years.
Nick Russell, a funding specialist who has worked on the Leeds arena, said the group was looking to use loans designed to support public sector projects.
In the 1990s a privatising government got around the scarcity of capital and know-how by coaxing state-owned pension funds to co-operate with private companies, and pushed public banks into giving them subsidised loans.
Large public firms have relatively easy access to loans and equity once again.
Even then, interest-rate subsidies make their loans a drain on the public finances.
It fears a public outcry should it start selling discounted loans.
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He had a large helping hand from public-sector banks, which provided bigger loans than Fininvest's creditworthiness seemed to merit.
The government plans to raise the money from public private partnership programmes, from low interest loans and from departmental budgets.
Resolving a systemic financial crisis requires recapitalising weak financial institutions and moving their bad loans from the private to the public sector.
But if you went into public service, we would forgive those student loans after 10 years. (Applause.) And teaching obviously is one of our most important public services.
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The ONS does not consider business loans to be "liquid assets" for these purposes, so any borrowing for programmes to support business lending - for example, to buy corporate bonds or packages of small business loans - would be included in Public Sector Net Debt.
Is replacing public provisioning of colleges with pell grants and student loans actually helping students with college costs or is it simply increasing tuitions?
Growing exports to friendly nations through loans that are repaid is an eminently sensible public policy, one we should continue through a reauthorized Export-Import Bank with a larger line of credit.
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The two Chinese banks do not publish a detailed breakdown of their overseas loans, so this research is based on public announcements about specific deals from them, their borrowers or the Chinese government.
Again, the recent housing crisis is a perfect example that has been discussed ad nauseam: Lenders were encouraged by public policy grounded in social-engineering to make uneconomic loans, and borrowers, often with the prospects of lax penalties, did the rational thing: They took all the money they could get.
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