The phrase "ability to borrow on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing financial matters, particularly in the context of loans or credit.
Example: "The bank assessed her ability to borrow on her existing assets before approving the loan."
Alternatives: "capacity to borrow against" or "option to borrow on."
Yet, their ability to borrow to invest still depends on whether they can persuade banks to lend to them.
It's going to have an extraordinary dampening effect on young peoples' ability to borrow for a home, and that's going to impact the housing market and the economy at large".
Assuming that you borrow to buy your home - again, a pretty reasonable assumption - that debt load can be a drag on your credit and ability to borrow for other things (like a new car).
"Their retirement savings, their home values, their ability to borrow for college" and their chance to find and keep good jobs depend on it, he said.
But this can only happen in the event that Congress fails to raise the debt limit, which would be a legal constraint on its ability to borrow, not one imposed by markets.
Losing your rating or being downgraded can have a fatal effect on your country's ability to borrow money on the markets.
That provision clearly limits its ability to borrow, guarantee or take on obligations of more than $30 billion.
The government will exhaust its ability to borrow more money on Aug. 2, which is equivalent to maxing out a credit card.
John Raymond, senior banking analyst at research firm Credit Sights, said Moody's announcement would have little impact on the banks' ability to borrow funds - and in turn on their customers - because it was so expected.
On the one hand, growth is a function of something more than the ability to borrow the latest technology; on the other hand, it is not clear that productivity must always grow at a slower rate in the service industries.
