It implies that much of the economic growth from 2003 to early 2007 was built on easy credit and leverage.
And they were papered over by massive leverage, credit card debt, a housing market bubble.
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Lastly, one lesson that we learned from the failure of the endowment model during the 2007-2009 credit crisis, is that low leverage, complete transparency, and daily liquidity are essential during times of market distress.
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Europe has been keeping a wary eye on the United States, where fears persist that troubles in the housing market is leading to an imminent credit crunch which could burst the leverage buyout bubble.
The Original Credit Transaction is an excellent way to leverage the legacy card payment network to facilitate the growth of the bitcoin network and these two exchangers are in the vanguard.
Single-entity recognition might give credit-card networks and chain restaurants additional leverage over their employees and customers.
That doesn't count leverage, fueled by extraordinarily cheap credit.
Credit the brainy Rubenstein for outing the rates of leverage in the financial system.
Because forwards settle in over two days, they require more credit from traders, as they are high-leverage activities.
Credit Suisse says banks it has categorized as having low leverage have outperformed their more leveraged peers by 14% since April.
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Furthermore, private equity in emerging economies such as Brazil tends to focus on growth and operating improvements, and does not rely much on leverage an advantage at a time of tight credit markets.
In recent years this program, which provides direct loans, loan guarantees, and lines of credit to regionally or nationally significant transportation projects, has helped mayors leverage four times the money invested in it by the federal government, helping construction workers get on the job quicker, and repaying taxpayers their hard-earned money faster.
"We target institutions with high degrees of leverage, high concentrations of assets in deteriorating sectors and rising credit costs, " Paulson wrote this spring.
It was driven largely by leverage on higher revenues, lower repair and maintenance expense, reduced credit card fees and utility costs.
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Consider the leverage of Utilities publicly traded in the United States, supposedly the safest credit in the world.
And that leverage was a disguise for the liquidity we thought would never allow the credit markets to freeze.
Regulators in Switzerland have introduced a new capital regime for UBS and Credit Suisse, the country's two biggest banks, which restricts their total leverage as well as measuring their risk-weighted assets.
As the collapsing credit bubble slingshots the real value of gold higher, gold stocks will finally provide the operational leverage they have lacked.
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In addition, he says, the returns they do achieve are due to factors, including high leverage and the overall movement of the stockmarket, for which private-equity managers cannot claim credit.
Clinton recognized the untapped potential in some Carter-era legislation, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which would give his administration leverage over financial institutions to increase loans to members of key voting blocs despite their relatively poor credit ratings.
Full transparency and data disclosure of these commercial and credit transactions are now required so that the Western democracies can coordinate the selective use of economic and financial leverage to press for real reform and transformation of the East bloc societies to a path of democracy and free markets.
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