The potential for less leverage — or borrowed money — at play in the oil-futures market has already helped spark a sharp fall in oil prices, which have lost about 20% of their value this month.

石油期货市场杠杆操作减少的前景已经拖累油价大幅下跌，本月油价已累计下跌约20%。

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The use of leverage, or borrowed money, changed that.

利用杠杆或举债就改变了这一点。

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"Once that money was handed over to AIG, the leverage was lost."

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell questioned the U.S.Treasury Department's latest aid to AIG, "Wouldn't the treasury,and the taxpayer, have had more leverage over AIG's executive contracts before providing another $30 billion in tax money for them,"

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And from the perspective of our European cousins, they see these programmes as a marvellous way to leverage the money they put into the Eumetsat budget back to their country.

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In recent years this program, which provides direct loans, loan guarantees, and lines of credit to regionally or nationally significant transportation projects, has helped mayors leverage four times the money invested in it by the federal government, helping construction workers get on the job quicker, and repaying taxpayers their hard-earned money faster.

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This may require to leverage the IMF with fresh money from places like China, to reach the right size to intervene properly.

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