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Those governments should also leverage their assets, including land; mobilize user revenue; and modify financial regulations and incentives to increase investors’ risk appetite.
Higher leverage increases their payoffs when times are good – as executives and traders are paid based on their “return on equity.”
Leverage is down sharply.
Investment banks with leverage of more than 30 times their capital in early 2007 are now down to little more than ten times.
The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.
They are typically very astute at risk management, unlike many of the banks that dramatically increased their leverage – and thus their risks – during the last 20 years.
At present, financial firms are learning the lessons for themselves, reducing leverage and hoarding capital and cash, whereas the authorities are trying to persuade banks to expand lending – precisely the strategy that led to the current crisis.
But when growth does return, leverage will be far more tightly constrained than it was before.
Regulators are already talking about imposing leverage ratios, as well as limits on risk-weighted assets.
This debt almost surely needs to be restructured, but, having allowed the banks to leverage themselves beyond any level of prudence and load up on toxic derivatives, the ECB is now warning against any sort of restructuring or write-down.
China’s willingness to throw its weight around amplifies the grave imbalance in size, and leverage, between it and the other countries bordering the South China Sea.
And a slowdown in productivity growth, together with excessive leverage and persistent public-sector underinvestment, may be undermining medium-term potential economic growth.
Nonetheless, several features of current growth patterns stand out: excess productive capacity, persistent high leverage, declining labor content in goods-and-services production, and an increasingly unequal distribution of income both between labor and capital, and across labor-income segments, with their differential savings rates.
The EU, in declaring Ukraine a priority partner for deeper political and economic ties, has the leverage to hold the Ukrainian government to account.
Rising Chinese leverage will not produce a 2008-style financial crisis.
The Saudis have financial leverage over Fatah, the ruling Palestinian party in the West Bank, and they are open to marginalizing Hamas, the Islamist militia that rules in Gaza.
This is a much better path than one that relies on leverage, low interest rates, and elevated asset prices to stimulate domestic demand beyond its natural recovery level.
The fund is expected to leverage this to acquire roughly €63 billion in loans, with private investors subsequently contributing some €5 for every euro lent – bringing total investment to the €315 billion target.
But the Europeans have no such leverage at the Fund, where Rato has elected to go out under his own steam.
Admittedly, the strategic conditions in the region are far more complex today than they were eight years ago, when Israel’s requirements for a deal with Syria focused mainly on security arrangements on the Golan Heights, and on Syria using its leverage in Lebanon to permit an Israeli settlement with that country.
At the same time, in no other large nation, save for outright dictatorships, have trade unions lost so many members and so much political leverage.
Usually, it is credit that provides the leverage, and credit is by nature reflexive.
Banks must pay for their implicit government guarantee by using less leverage and accepting restrictions on how they invest depositors’ money.
Tools that could be used to leverage institutional investments include public-private partnerships to develop clear and transparent project pipelines for major green infrastructure projects, green banks and green bonds, and instruments that mitigate risk and enhance the availability of credit.
By hinging China’s market access on progress in resolving political, territorial, and water disputes, India can prevent China from fortifying its leverage.
The case for the EU today is that member countries, including Britain, need its heft in order to leverage power in economics, trade, defense, and foreign policy, as well as to address global challenges like climate change.
After all, the heavier the debt burden on smaller countries, the greater China’s own leverage becomes.
It became clear only later that China’s real objectives were commercial penetration and strategic leverage; by then, it was too late, and countries were trapped in a vicious cycle.
China quickly became Sri Lanka’s leading investor and lender, and its second-largest trading partner, giving it substantial diplomatic leverage.
Nowadays, the West does not have the leverage to enforce these conditions.
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