Investment banks commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities.

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

Germany s banks are leveraged at 32 times their assets.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This is true for the banking system, which has not de leveraged to the satisfaction of either regulators or the markets, thus limiting the scope for credit growth.

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.

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.

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.

Both seem set for a long period of slow credit growth, owing both to necessary stricter financial regulation and to the fact that their economies remain significantly over leveraged.

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

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

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.

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

Bankers want to be so highly leveraged for a simple reason implicit government guarantees mean that they get the upside when things go well, while the downside is someone else s problem.

Bankers want to be so highly leveraged for a simple reason implicit government guarantees mean that they get the upside when things go well, while the downside is someone else s problem.

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.

UNDP has leveraged the pro bono services of an external independent firm to conduct a preliminary risk inventory and high level road map for the implementation of enterprise risk management in UNDP.

The Bank's contribution of 60 million to these projects leveraged more than 115 million from other donors. The projects were critical in covering the non wage funding gap for key social ministries.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.