One is to borrow money from your parents and the second is to shop around.
Inverted yield curves when it is cheaper to borrow money for long periods than it is for short ones have almost always presaged economic downturns.
And the solution is to borrow more money they cannot at the end of the day hope to repay.
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The survey shows an economy where over 50% of the population is forced to borrow money, and 17% to sell assets, to buy basic food.
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.
One of the biggest constraints on African farming is the inability to borrow money for fertilisers.
The association has undertaken the projects on behalf of the Housing Department, which as part of the States is not allowed to borrow money.
Because, remember, raising the debt ceiling is simply a mechanism by which Congress is allowed to borrow the money to pay the bills that it ran up already.
It was actually more of a backstop, an authority for the Treasury Department to step in if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed to do what they're supposed to do, which is to borrow a whole bunch of money in order to back the issuance of mortgages around the country.
We believe that the leadership in both houses shares our view that default is not an option, that allowing our capacity to borrow money end is not an option, and that will not happen, that in the end, we will maintain the full faith and credit of the United States.
The housing department is not currently able to borrow money.
Believe it or not, those of you who have the type of friends or family (or cultural background) where starting a business from scratch is a legitimate reason to borrow money are the exception and not the rule.
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But the point is that beyond -- after we cease to have the capacity to borrow money, every 60 cents we take in is 40 cents short of the dollar we need to pay out.
The tax code is tilted toward debt, and a company that can afford to borrow money that does not is not using that tax benefit.
And I think whether it is struggling with child care because you have to work longer, whether it is capping the payments that you have to make when you borrow money to go to college, or providing a genuine sense of security in retirement is important for the American people.
Somebody finally noticed: America is going to borrow a boatload of money to fund the bailout of its financial system.
While French government bonds suffered with the market jitters surrounding Spain earlier this week, the premium above German bunds that France pays to borrow money is well below levels seen at the peak of financial stress last year, and French bonds have remained relatively steady.
But the fact is one of the reasons why we absolutely have to take action is because we stop -- we lose our authority to borrow money.
After a decade of rising oil prices and budget surpluses, Russia is running a deficit and looking to borrow money.
What it means is that people tend to want to borrow money for longer than they want to save it.
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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.
But they think higher growth is worth the long-term cost of higher borrowing - that if the government is going to be forced to borrow more anyway, it might as well choose upfront what it is going to spend that money on.
Even if the extra profit to pay for it is not presently there, incentive exists for the owner to borrow today the money necessary to have the big payback in the future.
Put simply, the Libor rate is the rate at which banks are able to borrow money from each other.
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Credit cards also help build a credit score, something that is important when you want to borrow larger amounts of money to buy a car or home.
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.
The basic idea of credit is simple: you borrow money, pay interest to the creditor and ultimately repay the loan in good faith.
Thus it must borrow to cover the money it is spending.
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At present, the main ploy is fixing interest to low levels so the government can borrow money from its captive savers at below commercial rates, while eroding its debts via inflation rising faster than the rate of interest at which it borrows.
Given that the government pays an average of 10.4% to borrow, its investment in the banks is money down the drain.
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