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...1980s were an orgy of borrowing, as we know. But for every borrower there is a lender. The share of all personal income that comes from interest payments has risen a quarter in the past decade -- from 12% to 15% (an estimated $688 billion in 1990). Dividends as well make up a slightly larger share than in 1980, wages a slightly smaller share. This helps explain all the figures showing that income inequality increased dramatically during the 1980s...
INTERVIEW: A failed lender strikes back at his persecutors...
...risk corporate instruments. But those loans now make up uncomfortably close to 70% of assets. Today both sides of the credit equation are less willing to take a chance: the debtor doubts that the money he borrows to invest will pay off in higher profits, while the lender is dubious about the borrower's ability to repay...
...inflates prices whether the borrower wins the painting or not: like a gambler with chips on house credit, he will bid it up. Prefinancing by the auction house artificially creates a floor, whereas a dealer who states a price sets a ceiling. And then, if the borrower defaults, the lender gets back the painting, writes off the unpaid part of the loan against tax, and can resell the work at its new inflated price...
Before I left for college my first year, my parents bade me heed the advice of Polonius, one of the wise fools in Shakespeare's Hamlet. As his son, Laertes, prepares to leave for France, Polonius leaves him with two pieces of wisdom, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be," and "to thine own self be true...