Leverage is one of the worst.

Growth based on high leverage typically proves to be illusory.

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

If implemented, his innovative idea would reduce homeowners leverage.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 .

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

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

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

Some were fairly obvious Larger loans and higher leverage ratios contribute to higher rates of NPLs.

With global growth anemic and inflationary expectations falling, further growth in debt looks unsustainable. And yet total global leverage continues to rise.

And a slowdown in productivity growth, together with excessive leverage and persistent public sector underinvestment, may be undermining medium term potential economic growth.

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

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Bankers want to be so highly leveraged for a simple reason implicit government guarantees mean that they get the upside when things go well, while the downside is someone else s problem.

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.

Painful deleveraging less spending and more saving to reduce debt and leverage remains ongoing in most advanced economies, which implies slow economic growth.

Making matters worse, China's local government financing model could hardly be more effective at producing overinvestment and excessive leverage.

The Basel 3 Accord, adherence to which increased the liquidity of all banks and decreased their leverage, is viewed as a firm standard in some parts of the world.

Otherwise, the world will either become mired in deflation and slow growth, or will need to accept further increases in leverage thereby simply postponing the problem and making it still more intractable.

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

The report of the FSF on Addressing Procyclicality sets out recommendations to mitigate procyclicality which cover three areas bank capital framework , bank loan loss provisions , and leverage and valuation .