Nowadays, the West does not have the leverage to enforce these conditions.

With little leverage, Iran s leaders would then have two options.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

Leverage is down sharply.

Leverage is down sharply.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

Leverage was lower in several sectors.

The central problem is that Europeans have squandered their most powerful source of leverage unity.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

It was all the leverage he needed.

So, a normal commercial bank has nine to 10 times leverage.

In the short term, Putin seems to have greater leverage, but the weakness of his position will soon become apparent.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

But the Europeans have no such leverage at the Fund, where Rato has elected to go out under his own steam.

This tax would have two positive effects it would induce banks to recapitalize, thereby reducing their excessive leverage, while forcing managers to have more skin in the game.

Booms have similar characteristics strong growth in banks balance sheets and credit, and therefore a rise in leverage.

Finally, the leverage of financial investments remains very low compared to other countries.

Can Rome leverage its richly layered history to sustain itself economically and ecologically?

If implemented, his innovative idea would reduce homeowners leverage.

So they also need clear, albeit different, limits on leverage.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

Development banks, for example, can help leverage private sector investment.

They understand finance and economics, the bread and butter of the World Bank, and have a network of connections to leverage the Bank s effectiveness.

The US should now leverage that relationship to work on regional and even global issues.

A second approach, on which there is substantial agreement in principle, is to limit leverage.

In this sense, Europe s main task now is to leverage its already considerable strategic assets.

The single market also provides a platform and leverage to export goods and services to international markets.

But it must rise further, to 8 , in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.

Thereafter, the earnings from these projects serve to leverage additional projects and to replenish the administrative budget.

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.

Without Sharon, Peretz might have more leverage in the partnership, particularly since Olmert has been more willing than Sharon to embrace policy changes perceived as dovish.

The search for return contributed to the reckless leverage and risk taking that underlay this crisis.

By controlling the sea lanes, China hopes to gain leverage over India s capacity for economic growth.

The leverage of any public entity must be monitored, supervised, and restricted.

Thus, in gross terms, the leverage effects are larger than currently reported.

It may be too soon to say that many risky assets have reached bubble levels, and that leverage and risk taking in financial markets is becoming excessive.

Through public private partnerships, we can leverage unique strengths and be better equipped to expand access to health care.

With little incentive to manufacture structured investment vehicles, few Spanish banks created them, thereby avoiding excessive leverage.

In other words, the Fed will use regulatory instruments to control credit growth, risk taking, and leverage.

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.

The main argument is that high leverage contributes powerfully to systemic risk a condition in which asset prices move in a highly correlated way, and distress, when it occurs, spreads quickly. Leverage is also partially caused by misperceptions of risk and mispricing of liquidity. It is desirable to constrain leverage, but not to the point of increasing the cost of capital and investment.

If the main problem had been confined to excess leverage and risk taking within the financial sector, the economic shock would have been large, but the recovery quicker.

China remains the only foreign power with any real leverage over Kim s government.