Sentence examples for prices to borrow from inspiring English sources

The US in particular was relied on as the world's consumer of last resort and its households leaned on rising house prices to borrow.

The argument is that a regulatory scheme can be captured by the monopolists it is supposed to control, and transformed into "a conspiracy against the public, [a] contrivance to raise prices," to borrow Adam Smith's words.

He was certainly in no mood to take any lip from Vince Cable, the Treasury spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, when he had the temerity to suggest in parliament that the only reason Britain appeared to be doing so well was that consumers were taking advantage of rising house prices to borrow as if there were no tomorrow.

Indeed, if you are not living close to the edge, it's hard to understand why a person would pay such a high price to borrow such a small amount of money.

Mortgages are traditionally provided by building societies in Germany and the rule of thumb has been for people to save a third of the purchase price and to borrow at fixed mortgages for up to 25 years.

In return, buyout firms extracted lenient lending terms at low prices, enabling them to borrow more as they bought ever-larger companies.

Declining interest rates fuelled a boom in house prices, encouraging people to borrow against their properties.

Rising asset prices encourage people to borrow money and buy assets, most obviously in the housing market.

In the interbank market the prices banks pay to borrow money from each other are still near record highs.

Short sellers, traders who bet against a company's share price, are supposed to borrow shares and then sell them, leaving themselves in a position to profit if the share price falls.

That's the lowest level since May, but still a high price to pay to borrow until January.