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.

Over levered households cannot spend, over levered banks cannot lend, and over levered governments cannot stimulate.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

Russian banks are trying to acquire assets in Central and Eastern Europe.

Where land has already been acquired without such consent, and the acquisition is in dispute, Oxfam wants the corporations to insist on fair dispute resolution procedures.

The second question is how to constrain leveraged growth in the future.

The studio was acquired by Time Warner in February 2010.

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

With investigative journalists getting into the act, land acquisition became a political land mine.

When such firms make acquisition announcements, the stock market returns accompanying the announcement, which reflect the market s judgment of the acquisition, tend to be lower and are more likely to be negative.

Takeover by an international organization has three advantages over a domestic solution.

Preemption by Gazprom has been accomplished through a raft of acquisitions.

After the buyout, Schwab became the first president of the U.S. Steel Corporation, the company formed out of Carnegie's former holdings.

Another participant expressed concern about ways to capture and apply endogenous knowledge regarding adaptation measures.

An eclectic mix of idealistic and opportunistic politicians and NGOs mobilized people against land acquisitions. With investigative journalists getting into the act, land acquisition became a political land mine.

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.

After several short lived attempts to manufacture the device, the machine was acquired by E. Remington and Sons in early 1873.

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

The Dodd Authority allows the US government only to determine the terms of an official takeover within the US.

An eclectic mix of idealistic and opportunistic politicians and NGOs mobilized people against land acquisitions.

It also did not record the price the acquiring company had to pay for the acquisition.

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

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

By the end of the 1980s the excesses of the buyout market were beginning to show, with the bankruptcy of several large buyouts including Robert Campeau's 1988 buyout of Federated Department Stores, the 1986 buyout of the Revco drug stores, Walter Industries, FEB Trucking and Eaton Leonard.

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

Indeed, the growing contest between India and China is not only military in nature, but also concerns the acquisition of natural resources.

The point is that debt fueled demand emanates from particular households in particular regions for particular goods.

But in the end, these very different circumstances produced a common and inherently simple problem over indebtedness.

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

Such an outcome, however, would also leave the South with most of Sudan s oil reserves.

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

With little incentive to manufacture structured investment vehicles, few Spanish banks created them, thereby avoiding excessive leverage.

As 2007 ended and 2008 began, it was clear that lending standards had tightened and the era of mega buyouts had come to an end.

These were the first acquisitions of new main surface vessels, rather than the use of second hand ships, in almost four decades.

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

Eurozone banks became among the world s most over leveraged and the worst affected by the crash of 2008.

Japan s lost decades after 1990 were the direct and inevitable consequence of the excessive leverage built up in the 1980 s.

Private leverage levels, as much as the public debt burden, must therefore be treated as crucial economic variables.

Finally, farmers rights need to be protected, the efficiency of land use must be increased, and policies for acquisition of rural land for urban use should be overhauled.

But, like the Soviet Union and its satellites, the smaller and dynamic Asian economies had taken on too much debt.

Do we need financial institutions to be so highly leveraged (that is, carrying so much debt relative to equity)?

Trade unions in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and elsewhere have long pointed to the damage caused by leveraged buy outs.

The real problem of traditional elites may not be too much power, but too little.

These groups protected the growth in consumption to which they had become accustomed by going more deeply into debt.

Then there is the exposure of banks and other financial institutions to rising losses on loans that financed reckless leveraged buy outs (LBOs).