Economists who insist that China s financial leverage is not too high are a dwindling minority.

But it must rise further, to 8 , in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.

Leverage is down sharply.

Leverage is down sharply.

The EU has even more leverage.

Leverage was lower in several sectors.

In theory, bank lenders and the government could anticipate the additional risks they encounter when a company chooses a high leverage strategy.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

It was all the leverage he needed.

50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage, and the more those groups forego traditional institutional imperatives like deciding in advance what's going to happen, or the profit motive the more leverage they'll get.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

Russia clearly believes that the current tight world energy market and high prices give it enough leverage over the West to maintain its current approach.

If implemented, his innovative idea would reduce homeowners leverage.

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.

With little leverage, Iran s leaders would then have two options.

So they also need clear, albeit different, limits on leverage.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

Development banks, for example, can help leverage private sector investment.

So, a normal commercial bank has nine to 10 times 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.

But we should realize that there are fundamental causes for the imbalance on the US side as well, such as over consumption financed by excessive leverage and high budget deficits.

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

Thus, in gross terms, the leverage effects are larger than currently reported.

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

Finally, the leverage of financial investments remains very low compared to other countries.

China remains the only foreign power with any real leverage over Kim s government.

Can Rome leverage its richly layered history to sustain itself economically and ecologically?

As a result, the household savings rate has risen from zero to 4 of disposable income. But it must rise further, to 8 , in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.

But high debts will mean high taxes.

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

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

Its handling of Mugabe over the past eight years has actually underplayed its leverage.

Belarus s reliance on cheap energy supplies from Russia could also be used as leverage.

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

This ended up giving him control in Telecom Italia with a leverage of 26.

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

If one assumes greater leverage for private sector investment, the number would be higher.

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

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

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