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

But when growth does return, leverage will be far more tightly constrained than it was before.

By controlling the sea lanes, China hopes to gain leverage over India s capacity for economic growth.

In other words, the Fed will use regulatory instruments to control credit growth, risk taking, and leverage.

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

One is that, facing declining growth, policymakers will resort to excess investment or leverage (or both), creating instability.

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

The hard part of fully realizing potential growth is shifting the composition of domestic demand from consumption to investment without adding leverage.

Painful deleveraging less spending and more saving to reduce debt and leverage remains ongoing in most advanced economies, which implies slow economic growth.

As a result, investors are worried that China could slip into the excess leverage growth model that has served many developed economies so poorly.

Meanwhile, a highly interdependent and (now) less dynamic world economy has been limiting the scope for external growth drivers. Accordingly, even countries with sound balance sheets and manageable leverage have experienced a growth slowdown.

Leverage is down sharply.

Europe is not without leverage.

According to monetary economist Charles Goodhart, a significantly faster than normal growth rate for bank credit, house prices, and leverage will give the authorities sufficient warning of impending crisis.

The EU has even more leverage.

But, as these investments bolster economic growth, increased tax revenues would imply more sustainable financing, as would local governments ability to leverage land markets and approach local currency debt markets.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

Certainly the People s Bank of China, which engineered a credit squeeze in June in an attempt to discourage loan growth, seems to believe that financial leverage has risen to dangerous levels.

Fueled by massive credit growth (equivalent to 30 of GDP from 2008 to 2012), the Chinese economy has taken on a level of financial leverage that is the highest among emerging markets.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

Against this background, monetary policymakers must be cautious, because low interest rates can shift the growth model back toward leverage and domestic consumer demand, stalling the structural shift to the tradable side that is underway.

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.

All told, these various initiatives are likely to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the coming decade, speeding growth in the counterpart countries while deepening their production, trade, and financial linkages with China.

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.

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.

That makes it all the more important that African countries, many of which have laid a strong groundwork for sustainable growth, have a financial system in place that can leverage remittances effectively as the global economy recovers.

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

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

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.

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.