Germany s banks are leveraged at 32 times their assets.

Many homebuilders are near bankrupt, as are some hedge funds and other highly leveraged institutions.

Eastern Europe has its problems, which are likely to impact Western Europe s highly leveraged banks.

Investment banks commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities.

These leveraged buy outs leave the company saddled with debt and interest payments, its workers are laid off, and its assets are sold.

These are highly leveraged businesses, typically funding their balance sheets with no more than 5 equity (and thus 95 debt).

Meanwhile, the continuing problems at European banks are a stark reminder that operating highly leveraged, thinly capitalized firms is incredibly risky.

The second question is how to constrain leveraged growth in the future.

The partnerships have leveraged additional funding from the Government of the Netherlands.

Executives in highly leveraged institutions should be paid more, because they bear more risk.

As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff argue, recoveries from crises that result from over leveraged balance sheets are slow and typically resistant to traditional macroeconomic stimulus.

We leveraged that 10,000 seed grant more than 300 times into a 3 million park.

The crisis was caused by the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history.

But its revenues and expenditures were in part determined by a highly leveraged real estate bubble.

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.

There is little excuse for Iceland, which essentially turned itself into a highly leveraged hedge fund.

The titans of Wall Street and the City of London were exposed as hugely over leveraged.

A decade of historically low interest rates has led to economic imbalances in favor of sectors that are highly leveraged the financial sector, the housing market, and private equity.

But do we really want to see the US leveraged up to its ears again? Probably not.

The legacy of excess real estate capacity and over leveraged households makes recovery all the more difficult.

Eurozone banks became among the world s most over leveraged and the worst affected by the crash of 2008.

Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms such as hedge funds will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets.

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.

Emerging economies have watched the leveraged power of investors distort the price formation process in crisis stricken advanced economies.

Do we need financial institutions to be so highly leveraged (that is, carrying so much debt relative to equity)?

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

This memorandum of understanding has leveraged additional funding for water for Asian cities from the Government of the Netherlands.

And leading bank executives still insist that they should be allowed to run highly leveraged global businesses, in which they are paid based on their return on equity unadjusted for any risk.

Among the costs and risks of their low interest rate policies are a return to the leveraged growth pattern and growing uncertainty about the limits of a central bank s balance sheet expansion.

Even so, ensuring transparency and disclosure cannot fully address heavily debt laden leveraged buy outs, which would still be objectionable.

In other words, they would not wrap themselves up in their institutions equity and the leveraged products they were selling.

Trade unions in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and elsewhere have long pointed to the damage caused by leveraged buy outs.

Then there is the exposure of banks and other financial institutions to rising losses on loans that financed reckless leveraged buy outs (LBOs).

The stock market is the first logical place to look, as it is a highly leveraged investment and has a history of bubbles.

To the extent that banks and other highly leveraged financial institutions hold them, the bursting bubbles could cause bankruptcies and financial market breakdown.

Equity based awards, coupled with the highly leveraged capital structure of banks, tie executives compensation to a leveraged bet on the value of banks assets. As Holger Spamann and I show in our research, executive payoffs should be tied to the long term value delivered not only to shareholders, but also to other contributors to banks capital.

In several countries, debt financed housing booms have left households and companies over leveraged and governments have reduced deficits to contain their own debt. As a result, there are likely to be too few investors and too many savers.

Within the United Nations system, many agencies have leveraged the events of the last year to start new, or to highlight existing, road safety activities.

Eventually, an over leveraged world is going to have to find a way to cut debt burdens down to size, and it won t all be pretty.

The GEF could also generate larger environmental resources if it were able to raise the ratio of leveraged, private co finance in the projects it underwrites.

On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

Four decades ago, countries not only endured the immediate economic impact of the OPEC embargo they leveraged the potential of the resulting oil shortages to spur innovation.

This form of financing is often used by private equity investors to reduce the amount of equity capital required to finance a leveraged buyout or major expansion.

Banks are highly leveraged institutions with relatively small capital bases, so even a relatively small decline in the prices of assets that they or their borrowers hold can leave them unable to pay off depositors, no matter how long the liquidation process.

By assuming away the damage that highly leveraged megabanks can do, the myth of a good crisis merely makes political pressure on central banks all the more likely.