The financial performance of private companies and their ability to borrow is critical to the U.S. economy.
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But microfinance is a reminder that the ability to borrow is a crucial part of economic development.
Their ability to borrow so much has a lot to do with lenders' astonishingly generous attitudes to companies with apparently over-extended balance sheets.
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Meanwhile the government's ability to borrow money was dealt a blow last week when Moody's, a ratings agency, cut Slovenia's bonds to "junk" status.
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Added together, approximately two-thirds of our small business respondents are confident they have the ability to borrow capital when, and if, they need it.
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The bill gives the Scottish government new powers over income tax and the ability to borrow funds for capital investment for the first time.
But this is about our ability to borrow, not our willingness.
State Rep. DAVNIE: The good side of the subprime industry is it did provide people with access to credit and the ability to borrow homes.
While rates near zero give the firm the ability to borrow at next to nothing, it also has to lend with only tiny profits baked in.
For if workers see their real wages fall at the same time as the credit crunch is constraining their ability to borrow, consumer demand will suffer.
If the councils borrowed the money to pay these bills, the consequent rise in public-sector borrowing would limit the government's ability to borrow money for other public services.
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As top European Union officials admit, decisive action in response to the euro-zone crisis has come about only when a government's ability to borrow has come under threat.
Bankers concede to me that - in these more anxious times - they can't be certain that the downgrades will have zero effect on their ability to borrow.
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Alongside the gain in assets has come an increased ability to borrow against them and an increased tendency to spend as if the asset appreciation would go on forever.
This is especially bad news for banks because a major source of profits for money-center banks is the ability to borrow money at short-term rates and lend at long-term rates.
But what happens then is that we no longer have the ability to borrow money, but we have bills coming due and a limited amount of cash in our pockets.
Many other positive feedbacks such as the wealth effect, relative valuation methods, and the increased ability to borrow against inflated asset prices operate in financial bubbles and bull markets.
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Any understanding of the fact that a vote by Congress to increase our ability to borrow was simply a vote to allow the United States of America to pay the bills that it incurred in the past?
Now bankers are scrambling to limit how much money they will have to lend through these pre-existing credit lines, which they are obligated to do, just as their own balance sheets are stressed by limited ability to borrow from fellow banks.
Although Norinchukin is not legally obliged to rescue them, it will come under political pressure to do so, weakening its deteriorating credit rating and so its ability to borrow internationally at what are by Japanese standards cheap rates in the markets.
And if Republicans believe in cutting taxes for small business, if Republicans believe that small businesses are the engine that drive the economy and create jobs, then the best way to demonstrate that support is to support cutting their taxes and giving them the ability to borrow more money and expand.
It has also affected confidence among mortgage borrowers, the ability of companies to borrow against property to finance investment, and the ability of property developers and speculators to repay their existing loans.
So please continue to do that because if you don't pay your mortgage, it will affect your credit rating and that will affect your money -- your ability to raise money, to borrow money at a good interest rate.
The Dow Jones industrial average soared more than 300 points in afternoon trading following what many believe to be a bail-out for the financial sector, allowing breathing room for investment banks to clear large leveraged-loan deals from their books and easing the ability of corporations to borrow in the short-term debt markets, both of which had basically frozen up in the last few weeks.
The ability of banks to borrow at long-term maturities from investors appears to be getting more difficult.
Grades assigned by these firms can affect a company's ability to raise or borrow money as well as how much investors will pay for their securities.
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So their ability to come together and borrow as a group is a way of getting over this enormous hurdle to access.
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