It was the over leveraged Western financial system that led to the Great Recession.
The Japanese consumer isn't as over-leveraged as their U.S. counterparts, and their savings rate is higher.
The chancellor claimed that, under Labour, manufacturing fell while "our over-leveraged banks grew by 100%".
Drilling into the data, Cheung highlighted the risks of over-leveraged local governments, unfunded pension plans and shadow banking.
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Most of the time we can help, but in some cases, they have already over-leveraged their contract proceeds.
What exactly will it take to bail out over-leveraged countries with double deficits?
The GGP work led Middleton to the banks that were financing over-leveraged borrowers.
From December 2007 to September 2008, turmoil in the over-leveraged housing and financial sectors but 2% growth outside of these industries.
Nowadays it is fast growth and scale that seem suspect, because they awaken memories of the over-leveraged firms that suffered most from the crash.
Gold may be as over-leveraged as real estate was just before the credit crisis that sparked the 2008 economic meltdown and the lingering aftermath.
But its small debt might allow it to be an acquisitive one--it could be a buyer for the massively over-leveraged Hilton one day, for example.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker warned last night that leading nations, including t he US, Europe and China are over-leveraged and constraining their economies.
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The world is essentially over-leveraged and we should brace for the ramifications of similar issues that we are seeing in Greece in other areas of the World.
The percentage of struggling and over-leveraged clubs has gotten so great that UEFA has passed a sweeping regulation that it plans to enforce beginning in 2013, which essentially requires clubs to operate without losing money.
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Forcing bond insurers to hold exposure to credit derivatives while ceding good liabilities like municipal bond insurance would swamp their already over-leveraged capital bases, but save municipal bond investors, taxpayers and local governments from further losses, Spitzer said.
The plan, which Buffett floated to the companies last week, would effectively give the Omaha billionaire control over the companies' good books and leave them to deal with the bad stuff: credit-derivatives exposure that threatens to swamp their over-leveraged capital bases.
Now, some of that is unavoidable because they really do need to strengthen -- you know, the banking sector was in bad shape and it was over-leveraged and we really did need to take some steps to shore up the banking system.
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This was all over the long running case about whether Microsoft leveraged its hold over operating systems into killing Netscape all those years ago.
That reflects the boom in leveraged buyouts over the last year.
For example, Glen Jakins, originally from South Africa, has leveraged these skills over and over to build several surprising new businesses.
Fiorina leveraged media attention over the next few days to build a star profile inside the company, as Cosmopolitan magazine vied with business publications for interviews.
But that's not the only way the economy has been leveraged in the debate over gay marriage.
Dell has leveraged IdeaStorm inputs by incorporating over 450 suggestions made by customers, e.g.
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America still has huge advantages over any other country that can be leveraged to restore the confidence with which we entered the new millennium.
This ETF is up 22.75% over the last three months, riding a leveraged gold wave.
Over the past 15 years Jack Welch has leveraged his prime credit rating and reshuffled GE's portfolio of operating companies, but 40% of GE's earnings come from financial services, which for me rate just a midteens valuation.
Now, with an fantastically expanded deficit, the Republicans have now leveraged themselves into a position of control over the entire budget.
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Highly leveraged building has rehab costs written off over five years.
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The index tracking leveraged-loan trading fell 6% over the last three months, an indication that the weakening credits will force banks to write-off a chunk of their exposures.
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