The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

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

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

It lists already 1,000 entities that are offering debt and equity for social enterprise.

Investment banks with leverage of more than 30 times their capital in early 2007 are now down to little more than ten times.

Leverage is down sharply.

There's no turning back.

America has shown itself to be second to none in practicing cronyism, first with its rotten corporate scandals of recent years, and now in Iraq. Asian capitalists may have stolen some borrowed loot, but at least they didn't mix finance with war.

Asian capitalists may have stolen some borrowed loot, but at least they didn't mix finance with war.

In recent days, Italy's borrowing costs have soared dangerously and the prime ministers of both Italy and Greece have resigned.

Economic rot sets in as the ranks of dependent citizens grow, productive citizens dwindle in number, and society eventually runs out of other people s money.

The new electoral system changes the politicians incentives, and could induce a return to shifting coalitions and unstable governments.

I demand a refund.

I demand a refund!

Debt, by contrast, is a contractual commitment to repay creditors who are largely oblivious to how the money is spent.

They would have free use of their own allocations, but the IFIs would supervise how the borrowed allocations are used to ensure that the borrowed funds are well spent.

But the economic crisis has made it impossible to maintain a good life on borrowed money.

No right of return for Palestinian refugees, but financial compensation for them.

A chain of additional losses occurs when the inflated assets have been purchased with borrowed money.

The status quo allows banks instead to leverage taxpayer assistance by holding razor thin equity margins, relying on debt to a far greater extent than typical large non financial firms do.

While America benefits from increased demand for its Treasury bills (which reduces borrowing costs), developing countries receive a return of just 2 essentially zero in real terms.

There can be no return to the status quo ante.

In any case, things will never be quite the same again.

The road ahead, however, remains obscure.

Wherewithal to deliver.

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Indeed, there is no strategy or master plan whatsoever for a return to nationalism.

Palestinian politics is approaching the point of no return.

Moreover, it becomes possible to refund loaded but unspent funds.

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Detergent is poisonous.

The welcome return to civility is not, therefore, a return to mutual trust.

After all, by allowing people to spend more than they have, borrowed money can fuel growth.

This has clearly contributed to preventing any sign of a possible return to the totalitarian ways of the twentieth century.

China has been celebrating the five year anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland from British rule.

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Does the end justify the means?

The owner of the vehicle is Tom.

The type of regime Mubarak was running had been clear for many years, and it was also clear how the money was being used.

Even Iraq showed signs of being prepared to consider a possible return of the UN weapons inspectors.

And, without a rapid return to growth, more defaults and social turmoil cannot be avoided.

I know that we have come a long way, and I do not want to go back.

Egypt may become stuck in democratization s slow lane, but there will be no U turn.