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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Europe is not without leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

But we should realize that there are fundamental causes for the imbalance on the US side as well, such as over consumption financed by excessive leverage and high budget deficits.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

Those aspirations may sound as if they are aimed too high, but I believe that development that fails to leverage the best of business is development that is aimed too low.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Without rapid growth, there is no way to reverse persistently high and increasingly structural (and therefore protracted) unemployment safely de leverage over indebted balance sheets and prevent already disturbing income and wealth inequalities from growing worse.

These subsidies are dangerous they encourage excessive risk taking and very high leverage meaning a lot of debt relative to equity for each bank and far too much debt relative to the economy as a whole.

Anat Admati, a professor at Stanford s Graduate School of Business, focuses on bank capital specifically, the incentives that banks have to fund their activities with very high leverage little equity and a great deal of debt.

Given these trends, the search for more robust growth models will take much longer and be more complicated than many recognize especially as the world economy pivots away from unfettered globalization and high levels of leverage.

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

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

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.

In theory, bank lenders and the government could anticipate the additional risks they encounter when a company chooses a high leverage strategy. Lenders may charge higher interest rates, and the government may charge higher taxes or fees.

A significant number of banks operated at very high levels of leverage prior to the recent crisis, with debt equity ratios of 30 1 (or more) in some cases, and with much of the debt very short term.

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.

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

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

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

They should consciously recognize that they've built an appointment dynamic and leverage the games.

Belarus s reliance on cheap energy supplies from Russia could also be used as leverage.

Usually, it is credit that provides the leverage, and credit is by nature reflexive.

Increasing leverage boosts returns on the upside but is very risky on the downside.