{
  "id": 328384,
  "title": "The banks and the borrowing crunch",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/25/the-banks-and-the-borrowing-crunch",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-07-25T08:13:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Bell",
    "slug": "the-bell",
    "url": "https://en.thebell.io/the-banks-and-the-borrowing-crunch/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Russian government is facing an unexpected problem — borrowing has become prohibitively expensive at the same time that issuing debt is the primary source of funding its widening budget deficit.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}