borrow-and-spend

Just how much governments of rich countries should borrow and spend to boost their economies is disputed.

America's course of action seems to be for the government to borrow and spend. This debt approach carries risks for all creditor nations.

If households are determined to save and businesses are not prepared to invest, it falls to the government to borrow and spend.

This has been a necessary adjustment because the borrow-and-spend path we were on wasn't sustainable.

britain ' s buoyant borrow - and - spend era may be coming to an end , and there are accounts still to be settled.

Another, of course, is the paralysis of credit markets, limiting the ability of legitimate businesses and families to borrow and spend.

And how can a country that got itself in peril by borrowing and spending without limit now borrow and spend its way back to safety?

Unfortunately, I was unable to detect the call to "borrow and spend, please" so audible to Mr Wolf.

Consumers, particularly homebuyers attracted to record low mortgage rates, would borrow and spend more.

However, as Harvard University's Martin Feldstein points out, if house prices rise, people feel richer and borrow and spend more.

Governments from the US and other trade-deficit countries can borrow and spend aggressively to replace contracting household consumption.

Cheap money has encouraged households, especially American ones, to borrow and spend lavishly.

But he also says Americans cannot return to a "borrow-and-spend economy. "

It deters international capital from flowing to the US. Foreign capital has funded the US borrow-and-spend binge.

Yet when house prices are expected to fall, lower interest rates themselves are unlikely to persuade people to borrow and spend.

Lower interest rates encourage households and businesses to borrow and spend.

The growth model of the past two decades - Americans borrow and spend; Chinese lend and export - is broken for good.

A negative interest rate would certainly encourage people to borrow and spend, thereby expanding aggregate demand.

Lower rates made it easier for banks to lend and consumers to borrow and spend.

Lower interest rates encourage households and companies to borrow and spend.

It must borrow and spend to fix a crisis created by too much borrowing and spending.

If people expect the price of cars or washing machines to rise, the thinking goes, they will be more likely to borrow and spend now.

The danger is that a downturn in the housing market will prompt a snap-back in the saving ratio as consumers borrow and spend less.

A louder voice from Germany is desirable not just because it has more scope than others to borrow and spend.

And two: I believe we can't afford to borrow and spend another $700 billion on permanent tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.

Brazilians like to borrow and spend, and ao inferno with the future.

And two: I believe we can't afford to borrow and spend another $700 billion on permanenttax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.

New York Times commentary , for example, said dollar weakness is rooted in the borrow-and-spend behavior of the government and the public.