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...Treasury). But he argues that corporations have already set the money aside in special funds for taxes, and would not in any case have spent the money for anything else. Many companies do not fit this model; they keep their tax money working in their businesses and borrow whatever they need to pay their tax installments. For them the speedup forces a choice of either borrowing more to make their payments-thus straining their credit ratings-or cutting into the working capital they need to operate their businesses. Either way, the tax "cut" will hardly put them in an immediate...
...this is gone now. The mighty presses are silent. But life must go on. To borrow a newspaperman's phrase, Don't cry over spilt milk, it might have been scotch." And so for the last few months Cantabridgians have their way to the Out of Town newsstand in the Square and there, amidst the fumes of MTA busses, have sought to compensate their gnawing sense of loss...
...mind is a basic economic fact: the principal need never be paid back, just the interest. We pass on the national debt to our children, who pay their share of the interest when due, and they in turn pass the debt to their children, etc. Actually, every generation can "borrow" from the future, each in its turn, until the end of the world, and then it will not matter...
...Board, there has been a big falloff in short selling; in January, short sales hit a four-month low of 5,736,831. Short sellers borrow stock to sell in the expectation that prices will have dropped when it comes time to buy the shares to pay back the loan. To many, the falloff in short positions indicates that the professionals are currently not willing to bet that the market is going down...
...hard for a Catholic to put his church's case frankly without appearing to be intransigent and arrogant. But if Protestants could borrow some of Mohammed's philosophical attitude, they would realize that this particular mountain is immovable. It has to be. Mohammed will have to go to the mountain...