This serves to boost team values because the more leverage the more investors are willing to pay for teams.

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But as economist Donald Luskin has written, small changes in GDP cause big swings in corporate operating leverage and thus in stock market values, investor animal spirits and consumer sentiment.

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First, the use of leverage to reach for yield can be destructive of values.

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Financial companies continue to reduce leverage, but that, along with continued falling asset values, is increasing the need to raise capital.

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Leverage would be 5x, versus a concurrent equity investment that values the issuer at an 11x multiple.

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There will always be a huge gap in team values because telecommunications companies like Rogers and Bell Canada can leverage the media rights for the Maple Leafs multiples of what Stillman can command in media fees for the Blues.

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Investment banks have higher leverage than other banks (in America at least), which worsens the impact of falling asset values.

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