One of the main characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Polonius, while giving some advice to his son says this in Act 1, Scene III,
Neither a borrower nor a lender be…
This famous saying was intended as a piece of personal wisdom. The vast majority of the world today ignores this advice.
Whether at the personal, business, or government level, borrowing and lending have become commonplace in modern life. In fact, it is almost impossible to participate in buying or selling without borrowing and/or lending.
When a person borrows from a business, or from the government, it is a formal and legal endeavor, which makes disputes between the parties a complex matter of the law. The same is true for a business borrowing from another business, or a government borrowing from a business or another government.
If these intricate transactions run afoul and the borrower cannot pay back the lender…
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