The interest rates for such loans are high.

Is there a guarantee?

Here is our guarantee.

Honesty is no guarantee of success.

The warranty for my TV is expired.

Eurobonds would cut borrowing costs for the European Union s two large troubled members.

We have met all of the conditions asked by the international community to start the debt relief process, but creditor countries have not yet agreed on the financing.

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Most of this is accumulated interest on loans borrowed by rapacious dictators of the past.

Take, for example, the desirable goal of job security.

The good collateral meant that banks could hold these debts at par on their balance sheets.

Banks were too busy collecting fees on new loans, and paying their managers outlandish bonuses.

That is their only guarantee to live in peace and to achieve prosperity.

I need your guarantee that nothing will happen to her.

In addition to the downturn in real estate, a broader bubble in consumer credit is now collapsing as the US economy slips into recession, defaults on credit cards, auto loans, and student loans will increase sharply.

Just a 0.1 increase in borrowing costs would mean hundreds of millions of euros in extra debt service payments a year.

It is the State s undeniable obligation to guarantee the benefits of social security to all the inhabitants of a country.

I am not advocating a return to the early Middle Ages, when Church usury laws forbade interest on loans.

International exchange rate markets can be volatile, and this uncertainty translates into higher effective borrowing costs.

Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.

It was obvious that the lending channels in the banking system had become dysfunctional excessively restrictive borrowing conditions were suppressing demand.

These inferior substitutes often imply exorbitant costs for borrowers and financing that is usually too short term for productive investment activity.

But why would investors accept a negative nominal return for three, five, or even ten years?

The decline in governments borrowing costs is unlikely to boost growth much, as European Union rules preclude fiscal expansion.

Nor will consumers find any uniform standards for loans or other financial guarantee agreements in the EU.

According to Mr. Grafe, due to the extremely high rates on consumer loans, this type of loan does not exert a multiplier effect on the country's economy.

In nominal terms, Italian and Spanish borrowing costs are indeed comparable to the levels of the late 1990 s.

But, with longer term interest rates now creeping up slightly, the BOJ seems to be pausing.

The Kazakh government, which had been scrambling to support its overextended private banks with capital injections and nationalizations, gave up and decided to pull the plug. The banks defaulted on their loans, and creditors took large haircuts (reductions in principal value).

We noticed that our monetary policy was no longer having the effect on private borrowing costs to which we were accustomed.

Moreover, even if the plan for EU sovereign debt never takes off, fiscally prudent euro zone countries will face higher borrowing costs.

The IMF is preparing a bailout estimated at 20 billion to keep Argentina from defaulting on loans to foreign investors.

Favorable borrowing costs have fueled an enormous increase in the issuance of corporate bonds, many of which are held in bond mutual funds or exchange traded funds (ETFs).

Removing constraints on lawyers and ensuring that they are not attacked with impunity would be a good place to start.

The slim majority, and the clear differences between the two political camps, will assure a robust two party system in the future.

Then there is the exposure of banks and other financial institutions to rising losses on loans that financed reckless leveraged buy outs (LBOs).

The IMF was given a privileged legal position, and only devastated and wrecked failed states such as Sudan would default on loans from the Fund.

During the last 20 years, economic growth has been based on rising asset prices and declining borrowing costs for consumers and companies.

The collapse of credit made matters worse and firms, facing high borrowing costs and declining markets, responded quickly, cutting back inventories.

The polarization of borrowing costs has politically explosive distributional effects Germany is borrowing and refinancing its existing debt at artificially low interest rates.

Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results, and two cases do not constitute a statistically significant sample.

If the world s most sophisticated governments are developing computer viruses, what guarantee is there that something won t go awry?

Thus, the credit crunch is becoming a youth crunch, as highlighted by a recent survey carried out by the British Council in several European countries.

Temporary workers also do not have access to bank loans and mortgages in many countries.

Once investors understood Argentina s predicament, they started dumping its government bonds, and the risk premium on loans to Argentina rose several percent.