Leverage is down sharply.

Europe is not without leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

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.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

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

Leverage in some emerging markets household and corporate sectors has reached record levels.

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

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.

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.

The presidents of Uganda and Tanzania, and the international community in general, also exerted leverage.

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

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

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

There are many reasons for the underpricing of risk and the rise in leverage.

We need partnerships that leverage the knowledge and solutions that come from local communities.

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

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

The tradable sector is expanding and is not dependent on leverage to generate aggregate demand.

The US should now leverage that relationship to work on regional and even global issues.

Those mistakes led to an underpricing of risk and the resulting increase in excessive leverage.

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

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.

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

The West in general, and the United States in particular, has little influence or real leverage.

The search for return contributed to the reckless leverage and risk taking that underlay this crisis.

It was, at that time and for over 17 years, the largest leverage buyout in history.

And Open Education promises new approaches to collaborative learning that leverage social interaction among students and teachers worldwide.

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

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.

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

Significantly, it does next to nothing to alleviate the twin problems of excess leverage and inadequate saving.

And a banking system that never received a taxpayer subsidy could still support excessive private sector leverage.

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

Thereafter, the earnings from these projects serve to leverage additional projects and to replenish the administrative budget.

International leverage appeared necessary to clear these deadlocks, which were not primarily of Bosnia and Herzegovina's making.