The crisis was caused by the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history.

Investment banks commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities.

leveraged into this 9,000 mile path of light.

Germany s banks are leveraged at 32 times their assets.

The second question is how to constrain leveraged growth in the future.

The partnerships have leveraged additional funding from the Government of the Netherlands.

Core result 2 Pilot models and lessons leveraged for policy impact and replication

Executives in highly leveraged institutions should be paid more, because they bear more risk.

These resources are normally then leveraged as cost sharing contributions to UNDP country programmes.

We leveraged that 10,000 seed grant more than 300 times into a 3 million park.

Many homebuilders are near bankrupt, as are some hedge funds and other highly leveraged institutions.

Eastern Europe has its problems, which are likely to impact Western Europe s highly leveraged banks.

We leveraged that 10,000 seed grant more than 300 times, into a 3 million park.

But its revenues and expenditures were in part determined by a highly leveraged real estate bubble.

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.

There is little excuse for Iceland, which essentially turned itself into a highly leveraged hedge fund.

The titans of Wall Street and the City of London were exposed as hugely over leveraged.

Second, the coming of global transportation meant that any good idea could be put into practice to produce enormous profits as it was leveraged across the entire globe.

But do we really want to see the US leveraged up to its ears again? Probably not.

The legacy of excess real estate capacity and over leveraged households makes recovery all the more difficult.

Eurozone banks became among the world s most over leveraged and the worst affected by the crash of 2008.

As UNDP streamlines its performance management systems, corporate learning strategies will be leveraged to further strengthen staff competencies.

Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms such as hedge funds will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets.

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.

Emerging economies have watched the leveraged power of investors distort the price formation process in crisis stricken advanced economies.

Do we need financial institutions to be so highly leveraged (that is, carrying so much debt relative to equity)?

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

This memorandum of understanding has leveraged additional funding for water for Asian cities from the Government of the Netherlands.

These leading, innovative, nonprofit folks, who are using business skills in a very leveraged way to solve social problems.

Even so, ensuring transparency and disclosure cannot fully address heavily debt laden leveraged buy outs, which would still be objectionable.

These are highly leveraged businesses, typically funding their balance sheets with no more than 5 equity (and thus 95 debt).

In other words, they would not wrap themselves up in their institutions equity and the leveraged products they were selling.

Trade unions in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and elsewhere have long pointed to the damage caused by leveraged buy outs.

Meanwhile, the continuing problems at European banks are a stark reminder that operating highly leveraged, thinly capitalized firms is incredibly risky.

67. The technical cooperation activities of UNCHS also continued to be very effectively leveraged within the framework of national investment programming.

Then there is the exposure of banks and other financial institutions to rising losses on loans that financed reckless leveraged buy outs (LBOs).

The stock market is the first logical place to look, as it is a highly leveraged investment and has a history of bubbles.

To the extent that banks and other highly leveraged financial institutions hold them, the bursting bubbles could cause bankruptcies and financial market breakdown.

These leveraged buy outs leave the company saddled with debt and interest payments, its workers are laid off, and its assets are sold.

The financial sector s inexcusable recklessness, given free rein by mindless deregulation, was the obvious precipitating factor of the crisis. The legacy of excess real estate capacity and over leveraged households makes recovery all the more difficult.

Human and financial resources are leveraged through work and cost sharing arrangements with internal and external partners to ensure value per project dollar spent.

Within the United Nations system, many agencies have leveraged the events of the last year to start new, or to highlight existing, road safety activities.

Equity based awards, coupled with the highly leveraged capital structure of banks, tie executives compensation to a leveraged bet on the value of banks assets. As Holger Spamann and I show in our research, executive payoffs should be tied to the long term value delivered not only to shareholders, but also to other contributors to banks capital.

As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff argue, recoveries from crises that result from over leveraged balance sheets are slow and typically resistant to traditional macroeconomic stimulus.

Eventually, an over leveraged world is going to have to find a way to cut debt burdens down to size, and it won t all be pretty.