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

Investment banks commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities.

Germany s banks are leveraged at 32 times their assets.

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.

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.

Second, the coming of global transportation meant that any good idea could be put into practice to produce enormous profits as it was leveraged across the entire globe.

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.

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.

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.

The financial sector s inexcusable recklessness, given free rein by mindless deregulation, was the obvious precipitating factor of the crisis. The legacy of excess real estate capacity and over leveraged households makes recovery all the more difficult.

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.

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.

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.

One of the biggest failures of the eurozone periphery is a loss in competitiveness, hidden by a wall of credit that has been leveraged from Germany s balance sheet.

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.

The current system, which allows privatized gains from highly leveraged risk taking but socializes losses in the event of failure, must be changed to avoid episodic financial meltdowns.