To help these domestic powerhouses increase their market leverage, the government often favors them at the expense of foreign competitors.

The single market also provides a platform and leverage to export goods and services to international markets. So we must make the single market more open, internally and externally.

We need to, for example, embrace the big data, the knowledge that is there from market leaders who understand what it means to use and leverage big data.

Leverage is down sharply.

The EU has even more leverage.

While emerging market countries public sector balance sheets are stronger than ever with low deficits and debt accompanied by large foreign currency reserves household and corporate leverage have risen.

Europe is not without leverage.

Moreover, Russia controls the vast majority of the gas pipeline system, and has negotiated individually with European countries, with the result that it holds a disproportionate degree of leverage over the European gas market.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

But another Fed faction led by Governors Jeremy Stein and Daniel Tarullo argues that macro prudential tools are untested, and that limiting leverage in one part of the financial market simply drives liquidity elsewhere.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

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

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.

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

Some propose bringing in the European Central Bank to leverage the EFSF s funds.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

But America s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region s axis of evil.

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

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

The idea is that deferring the warrant will give the Security Council leverage over Sudan.

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

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

The central problem is that Europeans have squandered their most powerful source of leverage unity.

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.

So what we are asking in the lab is, how can we leverage that power?

When times are good, rising leverage can make underlying problems seem to disappear.

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 .

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.

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