But it was also because Germany was recycling the surpluses produced by its export machine, financing their consumption.Germany's economy is remarkable in many ways, but it was as unbalanced as the euro zone's peripheral economies.
Powerful Democrats in northern New Jersey are supporting his wealthy opponent, Jon S. Corzine, the former chairman of Goldman Sachs & Company, simply because, Mr. Florio says, Mr. Corzine is a "walking A.T.M. machine" financing all their political ambitions.
The Globe was Shakespeare's machine, financed and built by the company that intended to use it.
The world's fastest computer, known as ASCI White, is still a machine financed by the military, made by I.B.M. and installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Less well-known are Mr. Ryan's close ties to the donors and activists who have channeled Tea Party anger into a $400 million political machine, financed by a network of conservative and libertarian donors that now rivals, and occasionally challenges, the Republican establishment behind Mr. Romney.
Nor will they be able to use their houses as giant cash-machines, financing their spending by withdrawing the equity.
Xerox is talking to several finance companies -- many analysts say GE Capital is high on the list -- about selling parts of its equipment-financing business, even though it is easier to sell a $250,000 machine if financing is an element of the package.
There, Peer Steinbrück, who was the Social Democrat finance minister from 2005 to 2009, decided the ministry had to open the archives and tell the truth about how Hitler's war machine was financed.
Johnson's political machine was financed by regular payments from the vice industry, over which he exerted complete control; every brothel madam and gambling den owner paid a cut to him.
The leaders of the Confederacy, after decrying centralized power, realized they needed an economic machine to finance a war and started "a crash program of state-guided industrialization from above that was more Hamiltonian than Hamilton, Lindd writes.
Indeed, since the 19th century, when firms such as Singer started extending "dollar down, dollar a week" loans to help people buy sewing machines, such financing has been a routine feature of business life.
