Only the US – which borrowed massively, restructured its banks and printed money on a historic scale – enjoys anything like a sustainable recovery, and even that's being sustained only by the promise that quantitative easing will go on ad infinitum.
As someone who has borrowed from folk influences, this is of a different class.
This time, filming on a tight budget in Hungary, Strickland borrowed butterfly collections from Budapest's museum of natural history and then faced a big decision: should he hire expert advice from a dominatrix or a lepidopterist?
We could have borrowed money from them but because we aren't what they regard as a low-risk university it would have been like mortgaging the farm".
And after Thatcher's memorable fall in November 1990, her predecessor wore Westminster's widest, toothiest smile and borrowed one of her own phrases: "Rejoice, rejoice".
A Wanted Man, also by Lee Child, was the second most popular while Fifty Shades of Grey became the third most borrowed book in UK libraries in 2012-13.
We huddle forlornly on some thin white towels I borrowed from our chalet.
So far the couple say they have spent £4,000 on legal fees trying to stay together in the UK, largely borrowed from Robyn's 84-year-old grandmother.
(The group name was borrowed from Paul McCartney, who had once used the pseudonym Paul Ramon).
A London couple could have borrowed to the hilt in the boom – but they will have been kept afloat by the bubble in the capital.
As for the "Mandingo wrestling", one of the setpieces, in which two slaves fight to the death for their owners' amusement, Tarantino seems to have invented the ritual and borrowed its title from a 1970s novel and movie.
