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The goal is to drive down the spread between the cost of corporate and of government borrowing.

Mr Barro, for his part, seems to blame the Fed for holding down interest rates and facilitating government borrowing.

Others claim that government borrowing is driving up interest rates, and that this will derail recovery.

When he took over during a banking crisis in 2001, he promised to slash government borrowing.

Greece is expected to seek more international help, even though years of government borrowing led to the crisis.

Argentina lesson tells us that government borrowing must be brought under control, to be borrowing authority of the central government.

That it has only fallen a bit since is owed to the leap in government borrowing to fund various stimulus programs.

More reconstruction packages will follow, bringing with them contentious tax rises and yet more government borrowing.

Billions of pounds have been spent propping up the banking sector - something which has sent government borrowing through the roof.

Yet 10-year German government borrowing is just as cheap as the United States. British yields too are only 20 bps higher.

Analysts argue that the predominance of the dollar gives the US two: reduced cost of imports and lower government borrowing costs.

Well then, what about all that government borrowing?

One of the drawbacks could well be upward pressure on sovereign debt. In other words more expensive government borrowing.

To reassure financial markets jittering over the prodigious size of government borrowing, the chancellor showed restraint.

Republicans and Democrats, acutely aware of the electorate's desire to rein in massive government borrowing, should take it.

Crucially, the overall size of the fiscal multiplier also depends on how people react to higher government borrowing.

The US will roll over half its government borrowing in the next two years.

Back in early 2009 Beijing encouraged a local government borrowing binge to finance infrastructure spending.

I firmly hope that government borrowing will not crowd out the needs of the private sector in the coming years.

On June 3rd Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, put some of the increase in yields down to concern about surging government borrowing.

A sharp increase in saving by the private sector was matched by a sharp increase in government borrowing.

The current financial crisis is due to runaway government borrowing, poor banking credit controls, and galloping greed.

Just last week China's national auditor, who reports to the cabinet, warned of the perils of local government borrowing.

That means Germany could be doing more to raise its domestic demand through higher government borrowing, say critics.

The central government has begun to rein in local-government borrowing and it is approving fewer infrastructure projects.

There is a lot of debate about the right discount rate to use, but the conservative approach is to take the cost of government borrowing.

Global interest rates are still historically low, despite strong growth and heavy government borrowing.

Ultimately, government borrowing must be paid back.

Add in state and local-government borrowing, and the total approaches 110%.

Prospects of even rolling over the $64 billion of non-government borrowing due to mature by 2011 became increasingly bleak.

In the short term government borrowing is an essential antidote to the slump.

Italy, France and Japan entered the recession with low household debt but high levels of government borrowing.

A good case can be made that government borrowing is more harmful for long-run economic progress than taxation.

But the composition of debt has shifted sharply, as government borrowing has soared while private debt has fallen.

The comments added to speculation government borrowing will grow to record levels this year.

The expected increased need for government borrowing has driven up financing costs.

On their own, low government yields cannot justify higher government borrowing.

Take Belgium's huge level of government borrowing, currently running at about 100% of the country's annual economic output.

To keep government borrowing costs manageable, however, he has been forced to take an axe to the deficit.

And if government borrowing is excessive, at some point we will have some combination of inflation, higher interest rates and higher taxes.

In a debate over government borrowing, the world has moved a long way in the past few months.

House Republican leaders will seek a 3-month extension of the government borrowing authority next week.

So what does government borrowing do?

Yet the trajectory of government borrowing raises concerns, given that in 1980 France's debt was only 20% of GDP (see chart 4).

And if consumers expect higher future taxes in order to finance new government borrowing, they could spend less today.

For example, it is argued that massive government borrowing is keeping yields higher than they would otherwise be.

Net government borrowing jumped by 8. 6 per cent of GDP between 2007 and last year.

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