Yet, interest rates are at zero, so borrowing costs are good for equities.
Lending small amounts of money for short periods of time is expensive and therefore so is borrowing such.
The chancellor hailed the fact today that the deficit is still falling and so too borrowing, contrary to most economists (and my) expectations.
So this borrowing does not have the negative economic effects of deficit spending in crowding out the savings and capital for private investment, and possibly increasing interest rates.
Some of the investors who had to cash out found they could best do so by borrowing against the securities at a margin rate of 7 percent or more.
So by borrowing money at the holding company level at, say, 10% pretax, Catacosinos and his investors can put it to work earning 125 basis points more, aftertax, at the operating company level with nary a risk.
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.
Note that the company pays less in interest than it would pay in dividends (current yield of 2.8%) so by borrowing at 2% it essentially lessens the cash impact of paying the dividend along with being able to deduct the interest from its income, further lowering its cost.
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Oh yes, and he's in danger of missing key fiscal targets, and borrowing so far this year has been higher than in 2011-12.
President Hollande believes in "solidarity", where the debt of eurozone countries becomes common debt, so reducing the borrowing costs of the weaker countries.
We still do not know how aggressive the European Central Bank will be in buying bonds, and so lowering the borrowing costs of troubled countries.
Number one is that the Social Security trust fund -- there wasn't a fence around it so people started borrowing out of it for other things.
We argue that we cannot go on as we are: that when you're already borrowing so much it is quite wrong to deliberately borrow even more.
So, is it so difficult to understand that spending needs to be reduced over the long term so that annual borrowing is reduced to a sustainable level?
But human (or android) nature being what it is, many have evidently believed they can be the last out the door and so have kept borrowing at the low-interest window.
The Italian government, which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, is proposing that the Europe's long-term investment agency, the European Investment Bank, increase its borrowing so that it can pump an additional euro11 billion a year into roads, railways and other infrastructure projects across the continent, with private investors putting up several times as much money.
With inflation so low, households have been borrowing more because interest payments do not swallow up so much of their income.
First, they raise the cost of borrowing and so deter new investment or purchases of consumer durables on credit.
Government spending rose, and so too did government borrowing, on a scale that was clearly unsustainable in the long-term.
Oklahoma never had a big run-up in housing prices or consumer borrowing, so it did not have far to fall.
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However, America must bear much of the blame for its failure to do anything to curb household and government borrowing and so boost saving.
Banks have taken a three-year loan at 1% and bought up government bonds in countries like Italy and Spain, so forcing down their borrowing costs.
"Paying sovereign debt is not the same thing as borrowing money so that this institution and this town can continue to spend money, " said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas.
Not only has the little-guy investor joined the stock party, but they are doing so with gusto and borrowing money to do it, lured by the prospect of Dow 20, 000.
With borrowing rates so high, loan-to-value ratios on houses can be twice as much as a home's market value, whereas in a more balanced market they would be at 75%.
He denied the suggestion (drawn from a note written by Mr Diamond in 2008) that he had nudged Barclays to report lower borrowing rates so as to assuage fears over its finances.
The larger banks still face high borrowing costs, so they are happy to use the ECB's three-year funds.
The Monetary Policy Committee has not made such a dramatic reduction in rates since it was set up 11 years ago--the last time borrowing costs fell so fast in one day was in 1993.
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