Word: borrower
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...income families, raising the grants $750 above their present ceiling. It is the specificity of this bill that tries to help students avoid private loans that is essential to its overall merit. To persuade students that have turned to the costlier private loans because they are able to borrow more money, Kennedy’s bill also raises the amount a student may borrow in a federal loan for a financially dependent undergraduate by $1,000, and by $2,000 for an independent undergraduate...
...make it very expensive--or you could just let them know how much they use in comparison with their neighbors. When that bit of information was added to electric bills in San Marcos, Calif., heavy users quickly lowered their consumption, even though no one had asked them to. To borrow a term from behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein, the good people of San Marcos had been nudged...
...problem are still worth something. House prices are headed downward, but they're not headed to zero. What turned a simple price decline into a crisis that killed Bear Stearns was the way many financial firms (hedge funds and investment banks, especially) generate their profits: by making bets with borrowed money. To borrow that money, they have to put up collateral--for example, mortgage securities. Lately, many firms have been simultaneously beset by bets gone bad and skittish lenders' calling in loans or demanding more collateral...
Alan Greenspan The king of easy money and little oversight kept the economy greased with low interest rates, but now the former Fed chairman is answerable for having made lending too available, especially to people who really couldn't afford to borrow...
...there and doing it.”While coaches and teammates will look to Madick to be a reliable pitcher who will get out there and do it, she has a strong unit that is more than capabale of backing her up. That’s good, because, to borrow her own words, no pitcher ever won a game—let alone a second Ivy championship—by herself. —Staff writer Julia R. Senior can be reached at jrsenior@fas.harvard.edu...