Leverage is one of the worst.

The ECB acknowledges that leverage can create important risks for financial stability .

Meanwhile, savers are being repressed, asset prices distorted, and incentives to maintain or even increase leverage enhanced.

Growth based on high leverage typically proves to be illusory.

If implemented, his innovative idea would reduce homeowners leverage.

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

Much of it involved costly churning of portfolios, while increased leverage implied fragility for the financial system as a whole and imposed severe social costs as over exposed households subsequently went bankrupt.

For starters, no one knows at what corporate leverage ratio a crisis will be triggered.

Specifically, China needs prudential regulation that limits the use of leverage for asset purchases.

But Germany has all of the leverage it needs to implement the stability oriented reforms that it wants for Europe.

And, with the corporate sector already overleveraged, a broad based expansion of credit is not safe.

Leverage shifted not only from private to public sectors, but also among countries.

If the economy as a whole desires to leverage up, the result is an inflationary boom.

Thanks in part to research by Reinhart and Rogoff, we know that excessive leverage is unsustainable, and that restoring balance takes time.

Consider China s high leverage ratio, which many argue will be a key factor in causing a crisis.

We need to stimulate growth and increase inflation without generating higher private or public leverage.

The concept of leverage is fundamental to the business model implemented by many AIFMs .

Higher leverage creates macroeconomic risk not least for fiscal balances when implicit guarantees must be honored.

Moreover, the relative increase in debt (leverage) in the financial system was similar on both sides of the Atlantic.

Article 25 ( 3 ) of the proposed directive provides that the Commission shall adopt implementing measures setting limits on the level of leverage that AIFMs can employ , taking into account , inter alia , the type of AIF , its investment strategy and the sources of leverage .

But it's also, of course, to do with the massive crisis that followed excessive leverage, excessive borrowing in the private sector.

Over the medium term, according to Wolf, countries need to put in place regulatory measures that lower debt levels and discourage overleveraging.

Certainly the People s Bank of China, which engineered a credit squeeze in June in an attempt to discourage loan growth, seems to believe that financial leverage has risen to dangerous levels.

As a result, investors are worried that China could slip into the excess leverage growth model that has served many developed economies so poorly.

For example, if companies reduce investment, they will weaken growth and boost their leverage ratio further.

Not only are they untested, but restricting leverage in some parts of the banking system would merely cause the liquidity from zero rates to flow to other parts of it, while trying to restrict leverage entirely would simply drive the liquidity into the less regulated shadow banking system.

Leverage is increasing, with some 57 trillion having piled up worldwide since the global financial crisis began.

Seven years after 2008, global leverage is higher than ever, and aggregate global demand is still insufficient to drive robust growth.

And the crises that often divide the leveraging and deleveraging phases cause additional balance sheet damage and prolong the healing process.

In particular, we understood that the rapid run up of house prices, coupled with the extension of leverage, posed macroeconomic dangers.

The single market also provides a platform and leverage to export goods and services to international markets.

The brain could grow, but the gut actually shrunk.

In such economies, that pattern not only typically depended on leverage it also enlarged the non tradable side of the economy and shrank the tradable side.

The Commission shall adopt implementing measures further specifying the circumstances in which an AIF shall be deemed to employ high levels of leverage on a systematic basis .

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.

Whereas in the West, time is linear.

The most fundamental reform of housing markets remains something that reduces homeowners overleverage and lack of diversification.

I would even point out once again that, until the European Parliament delivers an opinion, the agreement will be a dead letter and cannot be implemented.

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

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The economy is still struggling to provide a sufficient number of jobs for those who were previously employed in leverage driven activities that are no longer sustainable (let alone desirable).

If you put up a prize, you can get literally a 50 to one leverage on your dollars.

It seems unlikely that not a single central bank analyst was the least bit worried about the massive growth in credit and leverage at the time.

If it is supported by excessive leverage, effectively shifting future consumption to the present, China could face a significant slowdown or even a major crisis.

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