In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Leverage is down sharply.

Europe is not without leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

As a result, by 2010, China s overall leverage ratio had risen by 30 .

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

But offsetting fiscal austerity with ultra easy monetary policies risks fueling a resurgence of private leverage in advanced economies and already has produced the dangerous spillover of rising leverage in emerging economies.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

And a banking system that never received a taxpayer subsidy could still support excessive private sector leverage.

This means a strategy based on political leverage not a threat of military intervention or regime change.

Expanding such channels, especially during a period of potential political change, will strengthen US leverage.

Economists who insist that China s financial leverage is not too high are a dwindling minority.

Accordingly, even countries with sound balance sheets and manageable leverage have experienced a growth slowdown.

Banks balance sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and leverage ratios.

The main argument is that high leverage contributes powerfully to systemic risk a condition in which asset prices move in a highly correlated way, and distress, when it occurs, spreads quickly. Leverage is also partially caused by misperceptions of risk and mispricing of liquidity. It is desirable to constrain leverage, but not to the point of increasing the cost of capital and investment.

With little leverage, Iran s leaders would then have two options.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

So they also need clear, albeit different, limits on leverage.

Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households purchasing power.

Many countries have begun to look at financial protectionism as a way to increase their political leverage.

International agencies could use their leverage to help make this happen.

(c) Domestic economic considerations (leverage farming activities, increased domestic protein production)

Booms have similar characteristics strong growth in banks balance sheets and credit, and therefore a rise in leverage.

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The leverage of any public entity must be monitored, supervised, and restricted.

Nowadays, the West does not have the leverage to enforce these conditions.

Gas provides a tempting form of leverage, and Russia had already used it against Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova.

The main driver of excessive lending and leverage is a mistaken view of risk that is shared by everyone.

Yet the mantle of a regional power sometimes requires using that leverage for the greater good of the region.

Subregional offices are well positioned to leverage their status as subregional entities as a comparative advantage in resource mobilization.

In theory, bank lenders and the government could anticipate the additional risks they encounter when a company chooses a high leverage strategy.

This recession was caused by a mispricing of risk, leading to excessive leverage and high prices for a wide range of assets.

Some propose bringing in the European Central Bank to leverage the EFSF s funds.

When times are good, rising leverage can make underlying problems seem to disappear.

China remains the only foreign power with any real leverage over Kim s government.

Finally, the leverage of financial investments remains very low compared to other countries.

Leverage in some emerging markets household and corporate sectors has reached record levels.

And limits on financial institutions leverage will change only in the next decade.

Given India s religious, caste, and linguistic divides, politicians saw how easily they could leverage even a small following into votes.

Such leverage could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.

All of this implies that connectedness will remain a double edged sword the leverage it provides being fraught with vulnerability.

A major opportunity exists to leverage the investments already made, and to minimize those that will continue to be made.

We can now leverage microfluidics, like this chip made by Steve Quake at Stanford.