“As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.” LongStrongFineCostFundamentalsDollarsBorrowing Author:Lawrence Summers
“The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.” YearsAmountCostAssetsMore MoneyUnlimitedBorrowingTreasury Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“Obviously, consideration of costs is key, including opportunity costs. Of course capital isn't free. It's easy to figure out your cost of borrowing, but theorists went bonkers on the cost of equity capital. They say that if you're generating a 100% return on capital, then you shouldn't invest in something that generates an 80% return on capital. It's crazy.” IfsCoursesOpportunityEasyCrazyFiguresKeysReturnCostIncludingConsiderationEquityBorrowingTheoristsOpportunity Cost Author:Charlie Munger
“Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.” ShouldReasonGovernmentGivenSituationCostBillionsNo ReasonReviewsReservesProfitableBorrowing Author:Vladimir Putin
“The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.” CostBorrowingTreasury Author:Warren Buffett
“[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.” IfsYearsGovernmentHappensMonthsAmountCostInstitutionsSellsDollarsBunchMaking MoneyRelatedAssetsCentsMore MoneyUnlimitedMortgageBorrowingTreasuryBuyers Author:Warren Buffett
“Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.” LongEyeUniverseGriefKnowingSubjectsCostDistancePatternsCreditDrivenUsualCrashCeoBorrowingThrough The EyesInterruptionsBorrowing Money Author:James Buchan