Finally, what is the real cost of raising taxes to repay the money we borrowed?
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We borrowed to fund two wars, then borrowed even more to avert a financial collapse.
We borrowed, put it back into the business and took it out again.
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Hence, the only problem we have with entitlements is paying back the money that we borrowed from the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
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When millions of us had bought more house than we could afford, we borrowed against our ephemeral equity, too, to bankroll vacations, yachts and trips to the mall.
But semantics did not change the fact we were spending an unplanned night tending a makeshift fire and sharing a spoon over meals we borrowed from another, more prepared, hiker.
In the space of 4 years during World War II, we borrowed the equivalent of three to five times the amount we'd need to borrow to save Social Security over a 20-year period.
We "borrowed" the contrarian headline style of FORBES and the witty caption style of Sports Illustrated.
When entrepreneurship emerged as a topic, we just borrowed our ideas on how to manage new ventures from traditional management.
This is tantamount to an admission that we lack the capacity or political will to actually repay what we have borrowed.
In both cases, we have borrowed from the future.
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Much in the same conceptual way as bad debt is repackaged as an attractive investment at scale ( remember how that turned out?), a terminally credit-fueled economic culture allows us to routinely take on debt based on our fears and to feel that we are spending what we have borrowed on chasing our hopes.
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"We went out and leased or borrowed everything we could, " says Frederick W. Smith , FedEx's chief executive.
There is a limit to our borrowing capacity, and if we continue to cover 40 percent of the federal budget with borrowed money, we will soon experience that limit.
We have studied and borrowed from the best practices of many organizations.
And since this money represents borrowed money, we also pay interest on it.
Out of that 900 of borrowed money, we swap 400 for equity.
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"We turned to family and borrowed the money, " he said.
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All we know is, Becton borrowed one billion dollars in November and, among the boilerplate potential uses for the ten and thirty-year debt it issued, offering documents listed share repurchases.
Mr. BILL PROENZA (Director, National Hurricane Center): I was concerned that there was nothing on the books and nothing in the process of our budget process that showed that indeed NOAA was planning for what I would consider the next generation replacement for QuikSCAT, especially since it's in on borrowed time as we speak.
When I reflect on why we were able to grow a company without investors or borrowed money, I know that it was not because we were so much smarter or harder working.
The image of a "fat cat" consultant spending more time on the golf course than on the wards is one that we're likely to see borrowed over the coming few days, as senior doctors reject a new contract.
One wondered what he had in mind when he borrowed that money and now we know.
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Now, according to recently released documents from the Federal Reserve documents the banks wanted desperately to keep secret and obtained only after years of litigation we have learned that virtually every major bank borrowed tens of billions of dollars from the Fed to stay afloat in 2008 and 2009.
Looking at the number of borrowed securities over the past year, we can see a distinct difference between implied shorting activity on US corporate bonds, Treasuries and US equities.
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So we have to ask ourselves, where has all of that borrowed money gone?
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