But bankers and governments, which have also lent billions to developing countries, still have some work to do.

They lent billions of dollars to Mexico, and counted on revenue from that country's oil exports to service the debt.

They lend billions of dollars, and they do it almost intuitively.

In turn, the banks lent these nonbanks tens of billions of dollars.

Financial institutions are lending billions to pay for the lunacy of austerity measures.

The three proposals also provide for the Treasury to lend billions of dollars to the rapidly depleting bank insurance fund to stay afloat.

I was down in Mexico doing shows, drug dealers and cartels everywhere, and we were going to lend them billions of dollars.

Like many other banks, it lent billions of marks for real estate projects here and in eastern Germany.

Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet?

Many of those banks also began lending energy companies hundreds of billions of dollars in the late 1990's to finance huge infrastructure projects.