Leverage meant debt, specifically the number of dollars you could borrow for every dollar of wealth you had.

“金融杠杆”意味着债务，具体来说就是以你所拥有的财富做抵押，可贷款的数额。

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If you can understand that debt can be good, and carefully learn to use debt as leverage, you will gain an advantage over most savers.

如果你能认识到债务也可以变成好事，并仔细地学习和使用债务作为财务杠杆，你将获得一种大部分储蓄者没有的优势。

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Corporate leverage, measured as debt to book equity, was stable or falling in most countries before the crisis.

这次金融危机之前，大多数国家公司的债务与权益账面价值之比，也即公司杠杆率，保持平稳或者下降。

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Leverage is measured by the debt-equity ratio.

杠杆率等于负债权益比

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That is, share repurchase can change the units of measurement in a security and companies have to decide how leveraged the stock will be, which changes the stock price--leverage, meaning how much debt the company takes on.

即 股票的购回会改变,已发行股票的单位数量,公司需要决定,股票的杠杆效用是多少,杠杆会改变股价,杠杆指的是公司举债的多少

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The bubble this time was not in valuations and their relation to interest rates, the usual metric, but in debt and leverage.

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Mortgage REITs buy the riskiest types of debt, use leverage to do it, and are often rife with conflicts of interest.

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The question is, with most of the GOP already deeply invested in using the debt ceiling as leverage to force a spending reduction without ridding our tax code of perverse elements of corporate welfare, can they still be brought back from the brink?

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