Spanish borrowing costs are also rising.

Meanwhile, high domestic borrowing costs are undermining private investment.

High borrowing costs are needed to focus minds and instill discipline.

Our borrowing costs were skyrocketing, and we were facing possible default.

(a) Capping of corporate costs, while corporate functions address strategic matters of governance, oversight and inspection

That drives up affected governments borrowing costs further, fueling a downward spiral.

Borrowing costs for the Spanish and Italian governments have similarly fallen dramatically.

In these circumstances, continuing to raise borrowing costs would be a mistake.

The result was a dramatic reduction in the British state s borrowing costs and the emergence of a well functioning capital market, which caused private borrowing costs to fall as well.

Eurobonds would cut borrowing costs for the European Union s two large troubled members.

The polarization of borrowing costs has politically explosive distributional effects Germany is borrowing and refinancing its existing debt at artificially low interest rates.

And raising borrowing costs for governments with dangerously heavy debts thereby discouraging them from further borrowing is precisely what we should want to do.

Third, government could assume part of a mortgage, taking advantage of its lower borrowing costs.

There would be worries that adding cocos to sovereign bonds might raise governments borrowing costs.

It is no secret that sovereign bonds carry significantly higher borrowing costs than concessional debt does.

A default would also appropriately place part of the costs of Greece s borrowing spree on creditors.

Too many big investors can no longer meet their margin calls, while borrowing costs have risen sharply.

Moreover, beyond the housing market, excessive borrowing by financial institutions and some segments of the corporate and public sectors occurred in many economies.

The steady increase in production costs, partly attributable to high borrowing costs, is squeezing enterprises profit margins of small and medium sized enterprises in particular.

First, the domestic interest groups that benefit from low borrowing costs have become a barrier to their liberalization.

debt service coverage reduces the financial risk to investors and translates into lower borrowing costs for the borrower.

But eurozone members that currently benefit from exceptionally low borrowing costs Germany, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, and, to a lesser extent, France maintain that Italian and Spanish borrowing costs largely reflect these countries failure to reform their economies and strengthen their public finances.

In nominal terms, Italian and Spanish borrowing costs are indeed comparable to the levels of the late 1990 s.

Strong economic performance reflects strong domestic demand in the US, owing to low borrowing costs and rising asset prices.

Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.

Time and again, banks woes have affected governments borrowing costs, and concerns over governments solvency have affected banks balance sheets.

Debtor countries pay substantial risk premiums to finance their debt, which is reflected in their high economy wide borrowing costs.

Their finance ministers, while euphoric at their countries record low borrowing costs, must have understood that it might not last.

The fundamental problem for Greece is its bloated fiscal commitments, enabled by lower borrowing costs when it joined the euro.

The increase in revenue was attributed to the collection of corporate and individual taxes, indirect costs and fees.

When we measure corporate performances, we don't include our impacts on nature and what our business costs society.

Interest rate spreads for Italy and Spain are widening again, while borrowing costs for Portugal and Greece remained high all along.

The important exception to this pattern is Germany, which was accustomed to low borrowing costs even before it entered the eurozone.

The collapse of credit made matters worse and firms, facing high borrowing costs and declining markets, responded quickly, cutting back inventories.

Long term government bond yields are already very low, and a further reduction will not significantly change private agents borrowing costs.

A reduction in borrowing costs constituted a powerful motive in the 1990 s for southern European governments to join the monetary union.

But hints of new fiscal imprudence or of backsliding on long term debt consolidation and reduction can drive up borrowing costs dramatically.

During the last 20 years, economic growth has been based on rising asset prices and declining borrowing costs for consumers and companies.

Central banks that buy sovereign debt issued by fiscal authorities offset market imposed discipline on borrowing costs, effectively subsidizing public sector profligacy.

Borrowing isn't begging.

Spain, Italy, and the eurozone periphery face unprecedentedly high real borrowing costs, which are preventing a recovery in investment and hence economic growth.

And countries facing depressions and rapidly weakening inflation typically face very low borrowing costs investors purchase government bonds for want of profitable alternatives.

Their borrowing costs fell as they locked their currencies into a union with countries Germany, in particular with a stronger reputation for stability.

A banking union is an important start, which should prevent financial markets from fragmenting along national lines and reduce private sector borrowing costs.

That way, if the economy needed another targeted fiscal stimulus in the short run, financial markets would not respond by driving up borrowing costs.