Sentence examples for ways of borrowing from inspiring English sources

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In retrospect, it seems clear that honest, tried-and-true ways of borrowing money were recklessly abandoned and replaced by financial legerdemain: black-box transactions, synthetic collateralized debt obligations, mezzanine tranches and credit-default swaps — to cite just a few of the exotically named financial instruments now facing scrutiny.

For these two different ways of "borrowing" we may compare Mandarin with Japanese.

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But why do consumers choose such an expensive way of borrowing money?

IN THE West, a credit card is a discreet way of borrowing.

Perhaps it's a case of separating the two, of viewing this art form in a purely visual way, of borrowing its style rather than appropriating its roots.

One common way of "borrowing" pension money is not to make each year's "annual required contribution," the amount actuaries calculate must be set aside to cover future payments.

But the company denied that the use of its Maltese financing subsidiary, Scaris Ltd, was designed to avoid paying tax in Britain and was just a way of borrowing cash to fund British investment "more efficiently".

His first budget, for this year, called for $500 million in savings from the unions, but he got only about halfway there by delaying payments to the city's pension funds (which is, in effect, a way of borrowing from them) in a way that did not affect benefits.

The impact has been to drive down the return investors can get from lending money to borrowers with good credit ratings, or from buying their bonds - which are a way of borrowing using tradable financial assets.

And the derivatives that large banks want to trade under the FDIC's protection are just a fancy way of borrowing money.

"These are emergency loans to people who have no other way of borrowing money," he said, specifying that his remarks reflected his personal thinking and not that of his company.

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