Word: borrowers
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...capital in their country and slow their purchase of U.S. debt. That would begin a lethal exchange between the greatest exporting and importing nations of the world, with America blocking the inflow of Chinese goods and China flailing back by throttling its appetite for Treasuries. Without the ability to borrow money at reasonable rates any hope of continuing to stimulate the U.S. economy would flag and China's manufacturing machine would lose its largest market...
Under the terms of the agreement, students will be allowed to borrow money for educational purposes without a co-signer, a requirement for most student loans...
...Drawing the easy distinction between the Indian and non-Indian cast also ignores the way many artists in India actually work. Their world is the world - not just India - and they proudly learn, borrow and are influenced by everything around them. That was obvious in the Japanese taiko drummers pounding behind Rahman on his Oscar-nominated song "O Saya." And anyone who noticed Irrfan Khan as Jamal's interrogator ought to have a look at his other, much more substantial role in A Mighty Heart, playing a Pakistani police captain opposite an American superstar in a British film...
There's an odd game going on in Europe. As European governments dip into their coffers and borrow madly in an attempt to repair their economies, the European Union is cheering and jeering at the same time. The cheers are for the economic-stimulus packages; the jeers come because all that spending is blowing budgets by margins that E.U. rules expressly forbid...
...need to become a nation that pays for what we spend, not borrow to spend. In addition, a well-functioning government should regulate business and level the playing field so that every hard-working individual can share in a prosperous economy. Once individuals become prosperous, they should contribute more so others can succeed. Lower taxes and less government would be wonderful, but that implementation nearly destroyed our economy...