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...have a bunch of CDs I'm gonna let you borrow. I'm going to say this again--I can't stress it enough--it's more about the music than the clothes. I was in the scene for a year before I started buying patches...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...dealers have suggested. Well, you're wrong. Even if the government ran a $150 billion non-Social Security deficit, the trust fund would still have $150 billion to invest. Every dollar the trust fund invests in private-capital markets is an extra dollar the government must turn around and borrow from these same markets, and the non-Social Security deficit has no effect on this melancholy equation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $150 Billion Shell Game | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...strew cash about my room, prop the door open and still sleep soundly, knowing I am safe. In fact, that is exactly what my brother used to do back home. And let me tell you, it was great. Whenever I needed some extra change, I could just go borrow some from his carpet. (Of course, I always paid the carpet back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...economy looks pretty healthy until you think about the $1 billion Americans borrow from abroad--each day--to support their big appetite for foreign stuff. Result: this year's current-account deficit, which measures the gap in both trade and investment flows, is headed for $300 billion, up from $155 billion in 1997. That is worrisome to Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, a St. Louis, Mo., forecasting firm, who says, "U.S. indebtedness is growing more than three times faster than the economy, and that can't be sustained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worried About the Dollar | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Home-equity loans are available at fixed or variable interest rates. Householders can borrow a lump sum or set up a revolving line of credit that they can tap into as they please; amounts repaid can be borrowed again. Though such loans were once used for home expansions and remodelings, today's householders are borrowing for all sorts of purposes. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House-Rich | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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