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As a result, the PBOC is losing control over interest rates on corporate loans, and thus has few options for constraining leverage ratios.
For starters, no one knows at what corporate leverage ratio a crisis will be triggered.
China must slow its growth to deal with overcapacity and excessive leverage; otherwise a hard landing will be triggered.
Moreover, the leverage in many emerging markets and some advanced economies is clearly excessive.
This recession was caused by a mispricing of risk, leading to excessive leverage and high prices for a wide range of assets.
Federal funding, he has signaled, would be limited to “high priority,” “transformative” national projects and used as leverage to encourage public-private partnerships (PPPs).
From a financial perspective, it should provide adequate funding for projects of national and regional significance, and use its financial leverage to overcome obstacles and enforce best practices.
Sarkozy is right that leverage is not necessarily good just because the free market allows it, and that speculators occasionally act in a destabilizing way.
Developing countries, meanwhile, are getting smarter about how to leverage the $406 billion in remittances that their expatriate citizens will send home this year – by issuing diaspora bonds, for example, or by creating targeted investment opportunities for them.
The world has paid dearly for their lack of understanding of the risks of securitization, and, more broadly, their failure to focus on leverage and the shadow banking system.
The job of UN Secretary General involves very little hard power, but some people have filled the post with great effect, using their soft power resources to leverage the hard power of governments.
The key is to lower interest rates enough to mitigate the financial risks of high leverage and enable the restructuring of local-government debts.
Whereas Article 5 has become a source of leverage for Trump to use to pressure his allies to spend more, while impressing his domestic supporters, Articles 2 and 3 are practical and direct.
Besides, well-designed taxes on the financial sector might help alleviate problems caused by excessive leverage and banks that are too big to fail.
So, when mass protests erupted in Syria in January, Turkey hoped to leverage the relationship of mutual trust that the two countries had presumably developed, actively nudging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad towards democratic reforms.
It has a nuclear first- and second-strike capability; its own satellite communications systems; increasingly sophisticated and numerous aircraft and war ships; a rapidly growing economy to sustain high levels of military investment; as well as its own political and diplomatic points of leverage at places like the UN.
In any event, if its staff’s criticism ever becomes too candid, these countries can always use their leverage to water down the public communiqués issued by the IMF’s board.
After all, America’s global leverage is dwindling even as its army remains the most sophisticated military machine in history.
While there may be some factors that signal turning points – a run-up in short-term leverage and asset prices, for example, often presages a bust – they are not infallible predictors of trouble to come.
The US has a lot of leverage: Pakistan has one of the world’s lowest tax-to-GDP ratios, and is highly dependent on American and other foreign aid.
It should use that leverage to ensure that the Pakistani military is brought to heel – and held to account.
For this reason, China is attempting to use economic and military aid as leverage to improve relations even with countries with which it has had military confrontations with in the past, most prominently Vietnam and the Philippines.
The approach, called the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd), aims to leverage countries’ own investments in education with support from public and private donors.
Our aim is to leverage an initial $2 billion in guaranteed funding during the first funding cycle.
Expanding such channels, especially during a period of potential political change, will strengthen US leverage.
A withdrawing power that first announces a phased exit and then pursues deal-making with the enemy undermines its regional leverage.
Much of it involved costly churning of portfolios, while increased leverage implied fragility for the financial system as a whole and imposed severe social costs as over-exposed households subsequently went bankrupt.
But the greatest leverage will undoubtedly come from policies that foster ongoing and rapid migration from the countryside to the cities.
And policymakers are adrift, with little political leverage to stem these trends.
It was Greenspan’s notorious reluctance to intervene in financial markets, even when leverage was growing dramatically and asset prices seemed to have lost touch with reality, that created the problem.
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