Just for reference.
How much will coronavirus cost the UK?
We won't know how big the final bill will be until after the crisis is over. But the government will certainly have to borrow enormous amounts of money because it is spending more than it is taking in from tax.
On 25 November, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which keeps tabs on government spending, estimated that borrowing would be £394bn for the current financial year (April 2020 to April 2021).
That's the highest figure ever seen outside wartime.
The government borrows money by selling bonds.
A bond is a promise to make payments to whoever holds it on certain dates. There is a large payment on the final date - in effect, the repayment.
Interest is also paid to whoever owns the bond in the meantime. So it's basically an interest-paying "IOU".
The buyers of these bonds, or "gilts", are mainly financial institutions, like pension funds, investment funds, banks and insurance companies.
Private savers also buy some.
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Cause and effect is a relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the other or others. This is a combination of action and reaction.
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verb: circuit; 3rd person present: circuits; past tense: circuited; past participle: circuited; gerund or present participle: circuiting
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verb: beat; 3rd person present: beats; past tense: beat; gerund or present participle: beating; past participle: beaten
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strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip.
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beating (n.)
c. 1200, beatunge "action of inflicting blows," verbal noun from beat (v.). Meaning "pulsation" is recorded from c. 1600.
Nautical sense of "sailing against the wind" is by 1883.
From Middle French pulsacion, and its source, Latin pulsātiō (“a beating or striking”).
pulsation (countable and uncountable, plural pulsations)
The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse. [from 15th c.]
Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc. [from 17th c.]
(now rare) Physical striking; a blow. [from 17th c.]
A single beat, throb or vibration. [from 19th c.]
