31. At current rates, repaying a loan that was made in dollars requires more than three times as much local currency as it did earlier this year. 32. As the loan was repaid, shares were allocated to workers. 33. At that level, many Indonesian firms cannot afford to repay huge loans from Japanese, U.S. and European banks that are denominated in dollars or yen. 34. At that level, some companies in Indonesia with foreign debt would be able to repay loans. 35. Barbour promised Young that the forum would repay its loan and he would get his collateral back. 36. Bank earnings could also benefit from lower interest rates, which will enable more customers to repay overdue loans and might encourage customers to arrange additional credit. 37. Barbour then reneged on a promise he had made to Young that the Republican Party would repay the loan if the National Policy Forum did not. 38. Bank regulators have been more worried about the effect on bank balance sheets if many risky loans are not repaid the next time the economy goes into a slump. 39. Bankers often fashion credit agreements to place financial restrictions on borrowers until they have repaid their loan. 40. Barbour promised Young that if the Policy Forum was unable to repay the loan, he would make sure that the Republican National Committee did so. |