Yet this has been portrayed as buying news.

The real reason to worry is that India has lost international competitiveness and has been buying time by borrowing from fickle lenders.

One consequence of the ECB s large scale long term refinancing operation (LTRO) has been that Italian banks are once again buying Italian government bonds, and Spanish banks are buying Spanish bonds.

The focus has been on buying time, rather than on implementing a sensible transition to a sustainable policy stance.

For 18 months, it has been buying government bonds worth more than 200 billion ( 254 billion) on secondary markets under its Securities Market Program.

Nothing has been formally agreed yet, but the ECB is expected to announce a new government bond buying program following next week s meeting of its Governing Council.

Commenting on this manifestation of corruption, Blechinger notes that vote buying has been a major problem for years, and it is still a widespread practice despite repeated reform efforts .

But their choice boils down to buying US dollars or buying US goods.

Italian bond rates had already been falling before ECB President Mario Draghi announced the conditional bond buying plans.

Buying America, Chinese Style

Until the euro weakened recently, Chinese bankers had been buying more euro denominated assets, no doubt recognizing that, despite the frailty of the eurozone economy, Chinese exporters also need European consumers to keep buying their goods.

Housing loans have also been granted to Greek Gypsies, for buying, having built or completing the construction of a residence.

More recently, however, it has been the Americans turn consistently to run large current account deficits, buying more from the rest of the world than they earn by selling goods and services abroad.

Now that oil price has reached 80 per barrel, Russia s central bank can start buying foreign currency again.

Peter is buying a tomcat.

Goldman Sachs, for example, has made a point of publicly buying endangered assets in its Global Equities Opportunity Fund.

The table shows that from 1971 through 2012 the British pound has lost about 92 of its buying power.

Sami was buying and selling cars.

Chinese buying reversed the euro s decline.

Well, I for one ain t buying!

With little knowledge of China s tectonic changes, foreigners have been investing, buying, trading, and extravagantly praising its amazing, but hell bent, economic boom.

The ECB has already purchased almost a 100 billion of peripheral government bonds, and it is committed to buying a lot more.

The empirical study of happiness has produced evidence that the satisfaction from buying objects is short lived and depends on continued repetition.

While Indians have traditionally been wary of buying online, owing to their distrust of digital security, in recent years the urban middle class has become increasingly accustomed to using the Internet to purchase airline tickets, reserve hotel rooms, and order books.

By buying a space that was 420 sq. ft.

Are you seriously thinking about buying that old car?

These transactions highlight the broader strategy of buying time.

China and Japan shied away from buying such paper.

The case for buying gold had several strong components.

By you buying our sisters from the refugees camps?

While American economists, politicians, and business leaders have for years sought to sell their model of management abroad, many companies elsewhere have not been buying it.

Public Campaign Against Buying and Controlling the Vote is a site that collects news, updates and advice on how to combat vote buying and other violations.

In fact, Humala has singled out Chilean contracts and investments as targets for revision. At the same time, he has spoken of reinforcing the armed forces, which implies buying weapons.

Still has the tag in it from me buying it, so I can take it back to the shop if she didn't like it.

A few months ago I told him I'd stopped buying Al Masry Al Youm, and tomorrow I am going to tell him I'll stop buying Al Dostour

At Coreana Supermarket buying my kimchi because I like kimchi.

Buying mesquite charcoal will not actually make that much difference.

Don't waste your money by buying things you don't need.

Perhaps the Portuguese time buying strategy points the way ahead.

They are just buying real estate because they need it.

The Bank of England is buying UK government bonds ( gilts ).

Doctors and dentists started selling stocks and buying gold coins.

It therefore did not distinguish between who is buying whom.

Germany s Constitutional Court has approved the country s participation in the ESM, and Chancellor Angela Merkel has given her blessing to the ECB s bond buying plan, despite strong public objections from the Bundesbank.

But they're not just buying the juice they're also buying the carbon in the trees to offset the shipment costs associated with carbon to get the product into Europe.