Many Israelis feel that their sacrifices are not being repaid.
Spreads typically widen when investors perceive greater risk of not being repaid.
No bank lends money unless it is confident of being repaid.
The lawyer, for his part, has publicly denied being repaid by anybody in the Trump Organization.
That means that bondholders could insist on being repaid before banks, upending the traditional bankruptcy hierarchy.
In earlier years, actually being repaid by borrowers was crucial to lenders.
Its share of new lending – which strips out mortgages being repaid – was 21.4%.
But investors are pulling money out of both countries, worried that the risk of not being repaid is growing.
A former chief executive is in jail, and many of the loans still have no realistic chance of being repaid.
Such economies have also usually borrowed in dollars or euros, because their creditors insist on being repaid in hard currency.
Today, some 70 percent of the home loans in Poland that are still being repaid were contracted in foreign currencies.
