Like CNL, they bridge the gap with borrowing and share offerings.

FORBES: Unreal Returns

Share of Small Business Owners Borrowing Against Home Equity to Finance Their Businesses, 2000-2007.

FORBES: How Small Business Owners Were Hurt by the Fall in Home Prices

Unrealistic forecasts of future productivity growth have inflated share prices, encouraged a borrowing binge and pushed up the dollar.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

That's why the new regulations that SEBI is now introducing for settlements and the new limits on borrowing to finance share purchases might not be as effective in practice as they appear on paper.

BBC: Angry investors

Portugal has singularly failed to share in the fall in the cost of borrowing for eurozone governments since the ECB did its stuff in December.

BBC: Davos 2012: The unfinished and the unmentionable

However, borrowing by individuals remains relatively low as a share of GDP, mainly because so few people have mortgages.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

In effect, he says the only sure strategy for the government is to focus on what it knows for sure, which is that government borrowing and spending need to come down, as a share of the economy.

BBC: UK growth - anything to be done?

Overall, net government borrowing is on course to be about a third lower as a share of GDP than when the coalition came in: it's forecast to be 6.9% of GDP in 2012-13 (excluding the temporary effect of transferring the Royal Mail pension scheme), compared with 10.1% of GDP in 2010-11.

BBC: An economic mid-term review

At its heart was a borrowing binge, based on the expectation that rapid growth in profits, share prices and wages would continue indefinitely.

ECONOMIST: World economy

Even though these borrowing estimates are themselves dependent on an OBR assessment of the economy which many economists do not share.

BBC: Digging to stand still