Sentence examples for spur lending from inspiring English sources
The Fed has faced political pressure to spur lending.
Second, it promptly switched to quantitative easing buying assets, mainly gilts, and creating the money to do so in order to boost the money supply and spur lending.
She noted that the department had started three programs within the overall relief effort to spur lending to small businesses "and clearly has not gotten the job done".
Ministers from Greece, Spain and Portugal, which have severely weakened banking sectors, have lobbied the central bank to start QE to ease credit costs and spur lending.
The four banks represented at Wednesday's hearing have mostly returned money they received through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the 2008 effort that pumped capital into banks in an effort to spur lending.
He has not weighed in on specifics — like the Obama administration's proposal to spur lending to small businesses, or the call by some Republicans to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts — but has instead expressed hope that a bipartisan fiscal commission appointed by Mr. Obama will deliver specific and meaningful proposals.
By taking aggressive and innovative steps in credit markets, we spurred lending not just to banks, but to folks looking to buy homes or cars, take out student loans, or finance small businesses.
In his speech today, the president claimed that the actions of his administration have "spurred lending" and "helped responsible homeowners refinance to stem the tide of lost homes and lost home values".
That was the case when the government, through its Troubled Asset Relief Program, started pumping money into banks with the goal of shoring up their balance sheets and spurring lending.
And the 10 gradual rate cuts, which brought down the refinancing rate by a total of 425 basis points since April, have failed to achieve its main goal: spurring lending to business.
The easing of liquidity requirements for banks when they have met their capital tests should help spur more lending.
