borrowing
An instance of something being borrowed.
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Peng Wu, Jile Chaoge, Shu Yang: Adaptive Influence-Based Borrowing Framework for Improving Treatment Effect Estimation in RCTs Using External Controls https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01871 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01871…
This is, per latest OBR forecast, right (chart 1) Part of the problem is that every forecast update borrowing gets nudged up (chart 2) alongside unemployment (chart 3) and gilt yields are unhelpfully self-fulfilling…
#Australia’ s #property investor borrowing rises at fastest rate in a decade – despite interest rate rises Owner-occupier mortgage growth slowed under growing costs while investor loans grew by $42bn in the year to M…
Oh look, UK 30-year borrowing costs have hit highest since 1998 amid the surge in oil prices and political instability. #collapse
UK government borrowing fell by £19.8 billion to £132 billion in the year ending March 2026, but March's figure was higher than predicted. https://newsletter.tf/uk-government-borrowing-falls-future-costs-rise/
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(linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
: Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City
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An instance of something being borrowed.
“Peng Wu, Jile Chaoge, Shu Yang: Adaptive Influence-Based Borrowing Framework for Improving Treatment Effect Estimation in RCTs Using External Controls https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01871 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01871 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01871”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This is, per latest OBR forecast, right (chart 1) Part of the problem is that every forecast update borrowing gets nudged up (chart 2) alongside unemployment (chart 3) and gilt yields are unhelpfully self-fulfilling and about to revert to the Nov 2025 forecast (chart 4)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“#Australia’ s #property investor borrowing rises at fastest rate in a decade – despite interest rate rises Owner-occupier mortgage growth slowed under growing costs while investor loans grew by $42bn in the year to March, a 9.6% increase www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Oh look, UK 30-year borrowing costs have hit highest since 1998 amid the surge in oil prices and political instability. #collapse”
— Bluesky· May 2026“UK government borrowing fell by £19.8 billion to £132 billion in the year ending March 2026, but March's figure was higher than predicted. https://newsletter.tf/uk-government-borrowing-falls-future-costs-rise/”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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