Observe who have been the greatest borrowers of all agesAlcibiadesFalstaffSir Richard Steeleour late incomparable Brinsleywhat a family likeness in all four!

To one like Elia, whose treasures are rather cased in leather covers than closed in iron coffers, there is a class of alienators more formidable than that which I have touched upon; I mean your borrowers of booksthose mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Unguaranteed companies cannot get money while guaranteed companies are competing with them as borrowers.

We recognize a short-loan market, a stock exchange, a number of "markets" where lenders and borrowers are brought together by the aid of various intermediaries, such as banks, bill brokers, and stock jobbers, who correspond to dealers in commodities.

His scruples were scoffed at, and he was shamelessly flouted by some borrowers whom he offended.

Planters, he said, no longer enjoyed the long loans which in colonial times had protected them from distress; and the short credits now alone available put borrowers in peril of bankruptcy from a single season of short crops and low prices.

"We Britons in our time have been remarkable borrowers, as our multiform Language may sufficiently shew.

Yet it cannot be pretended that the labour of the two borrowers differs in this proportion.

On the other hand, all persons in business may be considered as habitually borrowers.

The class of borrowers may be considered as unlimited.

There is, therefore, a practical limit to the demands of borrowers at any given instant; and when these demands are all satisfied, any additional capital offered on loan can find an investment only by a reduction of the rate of interest.

The amount of borrowers being given, (and by the amount of borrowers is here meant the aggregate sum which people are willing to borrow at some given rate,) the rate of interest will depend upon the quantity of capital owned by people who are unwilling or unable to engage in trade.

The amount of borrowers being given, (and by the amount of borrowers is here meant the aggregate sum which people are willing to borrow at some given rate,) the rate of interest will depend upon the quantity of capital owned by people who are unwilling or unable to engage in trade.

Upon these circumstances, then, the rate of interest depends, the amount of borrowers being given.

amount of borrowers.

Before the commencement of the supposed war, all persons who were disposed to lend at the then rate of interest, had found borrowers, and their capital was invested.

The rate of interest must therefore fall, until some of the lenders give over lending, or until the increase of borrowers absorbs the whole.

About one half of their resources are invested in loans, mostly to small borrowers on the security of real estate, and most of the remainder consists of bonds and other securities of the safer kinds.

Additional funds are obtained when needed by issuing paid-up stock to non-borrowers.

The economic theory of such loans is essentially the same as that of private loans, but it is the people of the political district collectively that are the borrowers.

This involves a burden that is ruinous in some cases, both to borrowers and to lenders, and that tempts in all cases to the evasion of the tax.

Where credit is abundant and relatively cheap, borrowers spend beyond their incomes, hoping to pay later when the loan falls due.

In my ante room wait, at this moment, a crowd of borrowers.

When it is placed in banks for safe-keeping, it is in effect loaned to them without interest, and is loaned by them upon interest to the borrowers from them.

The public money is converted into banking capital, and is used and loaned out for the private profit of bank stockholders, and when called for, as was the case in 1837, it may be in the pockets of the borrowers from the banks instead of being in the public Treasury contemplated by the Constitution.