The disagreement lies in how to get lenders to make loans to these small businesses.
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Banks, for instance, take deposits from savers, which they use to make loans to borrowers.
He recruited an insurance company to make loans to customers, secured only by the 20-year string of forced buying.
Yet, absurdly, government rules have made it exceedingly difficult to make loans to investors who want to buy up rental properties.
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Our question is: What proposals do you have to make college more affordable and to make student loans easier to get?
Why did the government go on a crusade to promote "affordable housing, " which meant forcing banks to make loans to unqualified home buyers?
Some may go so far as to dip into their endowments to keep spending levels steady or use them to make loans to charities on the ground.
The criticism of them is that they tempt banks, which have to pay a premium to buy the deposits, to make riskier loans to keep a profitable margin.
Vandana Krishna, the state's secretary of Women and Child Development, says the funding gap could be solved by giving village panchayats, or local governments, a special fund to make loans to anganwadis.
So the ample liquidity held by big banks simply reflect the depressed times we live in, where banks are frequently reluctant to make loans to the real economy and deplete their liquid reserves.
Up until this past May, we were not only waiving fees for entrepreneurs who took out Small Business Administration loans, we were also encouraging more community banks to make loans to responsible business owners.
"We all (would) like to see better growth in credit, banks being more willing to make more loans to consumers, demand for loans rising, " said Omair Sharif, an economist at RBS in Stamford, Connecticut.
In late August, the entity acquiring Delphi's assets offered holders of Delphi bank debt a deal to buy certain equity interests and notes in the new company and the opportunity to make new loans to it.
Despite the Government loan guarantees, American bankers said that they were worried about the declining ability of the Soviet Union to pay its bills and that their own financial problems had limited their ability to make loans to anyone.
Hale answered "I don't recall" more than 12 times, including when asked when McDougal had pressured him -- according to Hale's testimony -- to make loans to "the political family, " a reference Hale believed was to then-Gov. Bill Clinton.
That reality last week triggered a run by dollar depositors on European banks with exposure to government debt prompting the U.S. Federal Reserve to make emergency loans to the European Central bank so it, in turn, could provide dollar liquidity to its member banks.
In addition to cutting the funds rate, the Fed announced it was reducing its discount rate, the interest it charges to make direct loans to banks, by a quarter-point, as well, to 4.75 percent.
It has made more progress in disposing of banks' non-performing loans than have Thailand or Indonesia (or Japan, indeed), so Korean banks are now able to make new loans to both firms and households.
The loan component of MyMela offers visitors to our site the chance to make zero-interest loans to artisan groups who use these funds to make capital improvements, buy raw materials and train other workers.
At the same time, we were able to increase the government guarantee on SBA loans, to encourage more banks and credit unions to go ahead and make SBA loans to good, creditworthy small businesses.
But there is growing congressional pressure on our beleaguered banks not to make big loans to foreigners.
Morgan was, rather, buying that energy from itself--and using the ruse as an excuse to make apparent loans to Enron.
Patriotism does not require one to make unwise loans to unreliable debtors, even if that unreliable debtor is the U.S. government.
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Big banks in general have survived remarkably well since the onset last year of a credit crunch, and have continued to make new loans to cash-strapped companies.
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The Fed's decision means that the discount rate, the interest rate that the Fed charges to make direct loans to banks will be lowered to 5.75 percent from 6.25 percent.
Insofar as Germany's leading financial institutions refused to make such loans to the non-creditworthy Soviet Union in the absence of 100 percent government guarantees to cover the transactions, the German government and taxpayers now find themselves the nation holding the bulk of non-performing credit exposure with the former Soviet Union.
Banks and governments alike would struggle to give up control to a distant banking regulator that might, for instance, tell national champions to reduce their exposures to domestic housing markets or make fewer loans to small businesses in order to cut risk.
Ms. BEATON: In order to, you know, pay these loans you have to specialize and subspecialize and find that one little niche where you can really make the money to be able to pay these loans and to make a, you know, a living for yourself.
Its response was to forbid public companies, after July 30, 2002, to make or even arrange new loans to executives or to modify or renew old ones.
The administration believes this increase will reduce the risk lenders face when they make loans to borrowers who cannot find credit elsewhere and ultimately give the banks more confidence to sell and make more loans, the officials said.
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