Leverage
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For many Western citizens, entities such as the EU, no less than the rise of major emerging economies such as China and India, are perceived as agents of this decline, rather than as a source of
leverage
to influence global power shifts and react in accordance with its values and interests.
They are crucial players in Lebanon, they have a role to play in pacifying Iraq, they can influence a change of attitude of powerful and extremely destabilizing non-state actors like Hamas and Hezbollah, and their
leverage
on Hamas is vital for the stability of the Palestinian front.
No matter how the cake is sliced, the political
leverage
of any one member is bound to be less in an EU of 25-30 members than in one of 15; this loss of
leverage
is unavoidable, structural and permanent.
Everybody knows that, if the enlarged EU is to function effectively, the member states must not merely acquiesce in the dilution of their national political leverage, they must even accelerate the process: there must be more majority voting, and it must be easier to achieve.
The increase in private- and public-sector
leverage
and the related asset and credit bubbles are partly the result of inequality.
After spending the last six decades defending South Korea and Japan, the US has every reason – and plenty of
leverage
– to demand that its two long-time allies enhance their military cooperation.
Such
leverage
could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.
But it must rise further, to 8%, in order to reduce the high
leverage
of household sector.
Banks’ balance sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and
leverage
ratios.
The main driver of excessive lending and
leverage
is a mistaken view of risk that is shared by everyone.
Booms have similar characteristics – strong growth in banks’ balance sheets and credit, and therefore a rise in
leverage.
Just by virtue of being there, the force shows the goodwill and commitment of the nations that sent it, and, by projecting a sense of law and order, it provides valuable
leverage
for honest brokers trying to mediate a peace deal.
With that much leverage, it does not take a lot to create fear of insolvency.
If anything, in his most recent speech, Fischer seemed to brush aside any such fears – assuring his audience that there is great social value in continuing to have extremely large financial firms that operate with so very little equity capital (and therefore a great deal of leverage).
Moreover, the relative increase in debt (leverage) in the financial system was similar on both sides of the Atlantic.
Others recommend monitoring the
leverage
ratio, particularly the ratio of capital to assets in the banking system, on the grounds that banks are the weak link in the financial chain.
Critics contend that the clause, along with the Kremlin’s implied warning that it could withdraw from the treaty unilaterally were America’s defenses to become too robust, provides the Kremlin with
leverage
to impede deployment of any strategic missile-defense system.
Nearly $7 billion dollars has entered the region in remittances, yet there is no single economic policy that attempts to
leverage
the development potential of this gift.
But, to circumvent the restrictions in the state-dominated financial system, a shadow banking system has developed, raising new risks: economic distortions; reliance on excess
leverage
to drive growth in the consumer, real estate, corporate, and government sectors; and dangers associated with inadequate regulation.
One is that, facing declining growth, policymakers will resort to excess investment or
leverage
(or both), creating instability.
Once these industries figured out how to make their IT systems more efficient, interoperable, and user-friendly, and then realigned their processes to
leverage
technology’s capabilities, productivity soared.
In the process, the US damaged the reputation for effective economic management that it had earned during the global financial crisis, when bold and timely measures prevented a period of reckless private risk-taking and financial
leverage
from ending in Great Depression II.
One sure way of doing so is to use financial leverage, typically by selling land or using land as collateral to borrow large sums of money from often-obliging state-owned banks, to finance massive infrastructure projects, as Bo did in Chongqing.
As we now know, much of the growth in financial assets prior to the crisis reflected
leverage
of the financial sector itself, and some of the growth in cross-border flows reflected governments tapping global capital pools to fund chronic budget deficits.
I am convinced that we need an overall cap on
leverage
on banks’ balance sheets, regardless of risk asset weightings or value at risk measurements.
In the current climate, it is impossible to measure the valuation of many financial assets to an accuracy of 3%, and the excessive
leverage
that has been a feature of many banks’ balance sheets through this crisis needs to be put right – and kept right for the future.
Painful deleveraging – less spending and more saving to reduce debt and
leverage
– remains ongoing in most advanced economies, which implies slow economic growth.
Instead of exploiting the current opportunity of unprecedented
leverage
over euro candidates to push them to meet the Maastricht criteria, euro incumbents are contemplating a new and exceedingly vague criterion based on the quality of banking systems.
To be sure, this could weaken a debtor’s
leverage
– the promise of future repayment – in bringing creditors back to the negotiating table.
What I propose is novel: it would
leverage
the IMF's $30 billion loan to Brazil tenfold (and set a useful precedent).
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