Word: borrowings
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...reacted by making hundreds of billions of dollars readily available to financial institutions, but so far that hasn't broken the vicious circle, and interbank lending remains gummed up. "It's like pushing on a string," says Maughan. He points out that banks are hoarding the money they can borrow overnight from central banks rather than using it to lend to others; as a result, "You're not really achieving anything...
...address the decimation of the wealth effect of the U.S. consumer," says Kirby Daley, senior strategist at Newedge Group, a financial services firm based in Hong Kong. Nor can a bailout replace all the liquidity that has evaporated from global financial markets, which made it cheaper for companies to borrow money to build new factories, buy new equipment or expand into new territories. "We will never return to those levels of liquidity," Daley says...
...bailout replace all the liquidity that those complicated mortgage-backed securities unleashed into the world's financial markets, making it easier for companies to borrow money to build new factories, buy new equipment or expand into new territories. "We will never return to those levels of liquidity," Daley says...
...crisis, however, observers believe European companies and homeowners are not as exposed to financial ruin as their American peers. "For better or worse, depending on your perspective, these aren't the same property-owning societies like you have in the U.S.,"Buik says. "The temptation, even pressure to borrow as much as you need to buy as much as you want was never the same in Europe." That relative prudence isn't likely to be enough, however, to ward off economic pain from the U.S. in the long...
...these reforms would involve massive up-front costs, and the current crisis seems to mean that there will be less money available for the next President to invest. If you say, "Well, let's borrow some," you run into the very problem that underlies the financial meltdown in the first place. At every level of American life - from the struggling homeowner who can't afford his mortgage to the failing investment banks that can't meet their collateral requirements to the Federal Government, which can't prop up the drooping dollar - the bottom line is that we've borrowed...