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

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

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

Reforming financial sector taxation would also help to reduce excessive risk taking and leverage.

Finally, increasing financial leverage means that the firm uses more debt financing relative to equity financing.

It was stated that efforts to leverage financing through cooperation with international financial institutions should continue.

But it must rise further, to 8 , in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.

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

Moreover, financial crises triggered by excessive debt and leverage in the private sector are followed after a few years by sovereign defaults and or high inflation to wipe out the real value of public debts.

Growth based on high leverage typically proves to be illusory. And yet the illusion continues to entice policymakers.

America s traditional sources of influence its soft power, regional alliances, and financial leverage appear to be running dry.

Moreover, the relative increase in debt (leverage) in the financial system was similar on both sides of the Atlantic.

Leverage was lower in several sectors. Financial institutions and, more importantly, households held less debt relative to assets and income.

The fundamental factors underlying the US external imbalance are large fiscal deficits and low household savings, owing to excessive financial leverage.

The US lacks investment in infrastructure and has excess investment in financial derivatives the result of opaque leverage from over consumption.

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.

The first round of fiscal stimulus, supported by credit easing, led local governments and the financial sector to increase their leverage ratios.

50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage, and the more those groups forego traditional institutional imperatives like deciding in advance what's going to happen, or the profit motive the more leverage they'll get.

The MDBs have been able to leverage large flows of private investment by mitigating risks and developing the capacity of domestic financial institutions.

By providing matching financial rewards, for example, a company could leverage its employees natural support networks and provide a valuable boost to the pot.

In financial markets, local optimization seems to lead to excessive leverage and other forms of risk taking that undermine the stability of the system.

Besides, well designed taxes on the financial sector might help alleviate problems caused by excessive leverage and banks that are too big to fail.

Leverage is down sharply.

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.

This was because they had less leverage to be unwound and less footloose capital that could leave in the event of a global financial squeeze.

Europe is not without leverage.

b A high indicator depicts a healthy financial position.

The home country must put a cap on leverage, limit acceptable liquidity and funding practices, and have a resolution regime for winding up complex financial institutions.

Crises like those we have recently endured were initially driven by excessive debt and leverage among private sector agents households, banks and financial institutions, corporate firms.

So what should developing countries do, aside from maintaining sound macroeconomic policies, curbing excessive domestic financial leverage, and attempting to isolate themselves from volatile capital inflows?

The problem is that the Fed s liquidity injections are not creating credit for the real economy, but rather boosting leverage and risk taking in financial markets.

(By contrast, non financial corporations rarely borrow more than 70 of their assets, and often much less, despite the absence of any regulation of their leverage ratios.)

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The EU has even more leverage.

If the main problem had been confined to excess leverage and risk taking within the financial sector, the economic shock would have been large, but the recovery quicker.

Borrowing is also supported by an easing of credit standards and new financial products that increase leverage and widen the range of assets that can be borrowed against.

Some of the problems stem from the financial sector, which is once again taking advantage of low interest rates to pump up leverage in search of higher profits.

It is high time to restore sanity to financial market regulation.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

Each crisis hit economy had increased its financial leverage the ratio of domestic credit to GDP by 30 percentage points over five years shortly before their credit bubbles popped.

The second issue is reform, with the financial sector a high priority.

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