First, Chinese companies are borrowing capabilities and technologies as they supply giants such as Wal-Mart Stores. Wal-Mart Stores
Egypt does not have the financial resources or borrowing capability to provide its people with subsidies to offset the inflationary rise in food and other commodities.
Wales, by comparison, has limited tax and borrowing capabilities, and the money it gets each year to fulfill its spending needs comes automatically from the British treasury.
Under the new plan, the Treasury Department would be forbidden to use "extraordinary measures" — juggling government accounts — to extend its borrowing capabilities.
For his hard-line conservative members, Mr. Boehner's proposal would have eliminated government contributions for the purchase of health insurance on the new exchanges for lawmakers, White House officials and their staffs, as well as forbidden the Treasury Department to use "extraordinary measures" to extend its borrowing capabilities.
Meanwhile, in a reminder that union on the Continent is still a work in progress, the European Council president Herman Van Rompuy has suggested building yet another big gun to save the common currency: a separate budget for the euro zone, possibly equipped with a central treasury with borrowing capabilities, to combat sudden economic shocks and promote structural overhauls.
On Friday, Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, made formal proposals for a third weapon to save the euro — a separate budget for the euro zone, perhaps equipped with a central treasury with borrowing capabilities, to combat sudden economic shocks and promote structural overhauls.
Ukrainian leaders have called on the U.S. to ratify the reforms, which affect Ukraine by increasing its quota and borrowing capabilities.
Republicans in both chambers of Congress opposed the IMF reforms, which were specifically requested by the White House to increase Ukraine's borrowing capabilities at the institution.
The Obama administration and Senate Democrats have been making the case that ratifying the IMF reforms, which were agreed upon in 2010, is critical to Ukraine's borrowing capabilities in a time of crisis.
