At a time when many potential buyers' borrowing power is iffy, sellers favor offers they know will close quickly.

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So why not spin it off to shareholders where it can sink into oblivion on its own when it runs out of cash and borrowing power?

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Although Singapore Telecom and a partnership between Australia's Telstra and Pacific Century CyberWorks of Hong Kong have multi-country aspirations in Asia, they don't have the borrowing power of Western counterparts.

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They can try to compensate by easing credit standards, effectively encouraging the non-rich to sustain purchasing power by borrowing.

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Consumers are finding it harder to plug gaps in their spending power by borrowing, because banks are less willing to lend to them.

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This practice has hidden what would otherwise be much higher borrowing costs and much lower purchasing power for the dollar.

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Neither of those facts make any sense if Clinton is right and spending and borrowing and taxing all amount to one congressional power.

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Indeed, Mr Reinfeldt came to power in 2006 only by moving his Moderate party towards the centre and borrowing freely from social-democratic ideology.

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That measure of borrowing has fallen by only 13% - or roughly an eighth - since the coalition came to power, from 5.3% of GDP to 4.6% of GDP.

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