They realize the need to keep interest rates low so job-creating corporations can borrow and invest at a reasonable return, and so low mortgage rates can help work through the glut of unsold homes that will gradually get the new home market active again.

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And until we can return to housing-market stability, banks can borrow for next to nothing and lend at rates once charged only by Mafia loan sharks.

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We could borrow them for two weeks and then we had to return them.

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Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

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In return, the graduate students let him borrow genetics textbooks and participate in experiments, including the sequencing of the cucumber genome.

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The short-sellers borrow the shares, replace them with cash collateral and promise both to return the shares on demand and cover dividends paid out in the meantime.

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The other is to borrow student loan from the federal government, which offers lower interest rates and more reasonable return - repayment terms.

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Tokyo has started a new carry trade, in which global investors borrow yen at ultra-low interest rates, exchange it into other currencies and invest for a higher return.

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Basic legal and regulatory compliance issues start the minute you buy or rent a building, hire your first employee, borrow money from a bank, manufacture a product or deliver a service, and seek to deliver a return to investors.

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