As usual with Bakrie, the story is one of over-leveraging, opaque finances and political controversy.

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There's tangential irony in Lehman's demise largely tied to over-leveraging mortgage paper.

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Although the Bretton-Woods system (1948-1971) was a pseudo-gold-standard manipulated by central banks, it was far superior to the fiat paper regimes seen since 1971, which have contributed so much to the boom-bust cycle, to unprecedented market volatility, over-leveraging, government budget deficits, debt crises, and economic stagnation.

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In a November interview with Steve Forbes, Editorial Director and Associate Publisher of Real Capital Analytics Peter Slatin, used Stuyvesant Town- Peter Cooper Village as an example of the "suffering from fallout in values, undercut by the terrible over-leveraging of many properties" that has plagued the commercial real estate industry.

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The tarnishing of its once-platinum reputation began long before June, when a U.S. judge found Microsoft guilty of violating anti-trust laws by leveraging its operating system monopoly to take over other parts of the software business.

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The company understands that its future relies in leveraging BigData and the power of the network over the existing markets for cloud-based HR or talent acquisition software.

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