Word: lended
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...office. The key reason he thinks he'll win this encounter with Congress is that this is one deal that really must get done. Last Thursday the great American credit panic of 2008 was on the verge of halting the country's financial circulatory system. Anyone with money to lend was hoarding it and big institutions were starting a run on the money market funds that hold the hard-earned savings of millions of Americans and support $1.7 trillion in short-term borrowings U.S. businesses rely on to meet payrolls and stay afloat...
...Whatever the politicians do, we as a society are going to be poorer than we were. We've lost credibility with foreigners; they will be less likely than before to lend us endless amounts of cheap money. Will that ultimately lead to higher borrowing costs? It's hard...
...Also unconvincing is the claim made by some conservatives that the Clinton Administration's 1995 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations, which pushed banks to lend in poor communities, caused the subprime mortgage lending binge that sparked the current troubles. It's certainly conceivable that Washington's long-held obsession with fostering home ownership helped fuel the housing bubble. But when the subprime lending binge really took off from 2003 to 2006, financial institutions subject to CRA weren't the ones leading the way. Neither were government-sponsored behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie...
Others sought to lend what assistance they could. Having been unable to break through the firm's jammed phone lines, Jason Cohen, a psychiatrist in private practice, made the one hour, 40 min. drive Monday morning from Freehold, N.J. with the intention of offering counsel to dumbstruck employees. But after witnessing the scene unfolding on the sidewalk, he decided to hold back. "I don't have the heart to approach people carrying boxes out of their offices," he says...
...structure of the Web, however, doesn't typically lend itself to diverse discussion. Research has shown that liberal blogs are overwhelming hyperlinked to other liberal blogs, and that conservative blogs are overwhelmingly hyperlinked to other conservative blogs. Very few cross-links exist. This is thought to explain in part the emergence and survival of ideologically fueled rumors. For example, in the rancorous 2004 Presidential election, the same false rumor that a candidate had mistakenly quoted the Biblical verse John 16:3 as his favorite Bible passage - thus revealing hypocrisy about his being a believer - circulated about both John Kerry...