Financing is cheap on loans used to finance leverage buyouts: The average yield in the junk-bond market is at its lowest level since October 2007, falling to 8.7%.

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Lastly, we note a significant milestone for the leverage finance market.

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The hope, however peculiar it sounds, is that, just as leverage got finance into this mess, it can help get finance out again.

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Moving forward, targeted public finance can be used to leverage private investment in such initiatives.

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Lucas had enough leverage to make Paramount finance the films and let him own them.

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That, in essence, was taken by the finance community and turned into products that increased leverage significantly.

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New-fangled finance has its flaws, from the procyclicality of its leverage to its fiendish complexity.

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To maximize leverage from Federal investments, the NIB would finance no more than 50 percent of the total costs of any project.

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Combining this with their zeal for yield (and plentiful liquidity to finance it) led to immense speculation that was implemented by gigantic financial leverage.

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