Sentence examples for the amount of borrowing from inspiring English sources

Effective regulation needs to control the amount of borrowing undertaken by banks and must ensure transparency.

But the real scandal is the amount of borrowing – £606bn over the next four years – which the chancellor announced.

After passing the current budget this spring, he also began to hint that future budgets should focus more on spending constraints than the amount of borrowing.

And while the Legislature raised taxes to pay for restoring school aid and medical services the governor wished to cut, it did nothing to reduce the amount of borrowing Mr. Pataki's budget.

Most national governments have become accustomed to thinking in terms of national economic policies in which the amount of borrowing to be undertaken depends on current requirements for stability and growth.

During the last eight years, even as the state's economy enjoyed a record boom, New Jersey sharply increased its debt load, thereby limiting the amount of borrowing Mr. McGreevey will be able to do without hurting the state's bond rating and increasing its interest costs.

But a few months later, Mr. Smith terminated the deal, saying asset values had dropped considerably and the amount of borrowed money on the deal made it unattractive.

Jefferies's leverage ratio, or the amount of borrowed money used against its capital, is roughly 13 to 1, in line with bigger firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

The financial regulatory system that emerged from the New Deal was meant to protect us from the recurrence of such a catastrophe by reducing the amount of borrowed money used by major financial institutions in speculative schemes.

Its response to the recently volatile conditions has been haphazard; it has changed, on a daily basis, the amount of borrowed money an investor is allowed to trade on.

A number of senior Wall Street executives have questioned the wisdom of Moody's threat to cut the ratings of the financial institutions, given the efforts most banks have made to reduce the amount of borrowed money they use to run their operations and increase their capital positions.