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Unusually Cheap Financing

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Cheap financing is an initiative of the Obama government. The dangers of this incentive are of two fold. For one, companies would now take on unwanted risks, secondly if a company is given unusually cheap financing then their rivals are at a competitive disadvantage. Lawrence White, an economic professor at New York University said, “If these entities are now perceived to be too big to fail within the protective net, then they get an advantage vis-à-vis other institutions that are not so perceived.”