That prevents or slow downs the flow of money into one area or another, buying time to see that overleverage is occurring and or preventing it from occurring. ❋ Unknown (2010)
First, Congress responds to a crisis caused by too much debt and overleverage by … borrowing a trillion or so dollars and deficit spending. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The debt and overleverage explosion artificially inflated our economies and corporate earnings. ❋ Andrew Winston (2011)
But the firm itself seems not to have worked — meaning, those arguing that in our world, capital structure and degree of leverage matter, and even matter with respect to a firm conducting financial intermediation, given that if the firm goes kaput on account of overleverage, the intermediation collapses with it? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Similar scenarios are expected to play out this year, especially with commercial borrowers who, like homeowners that took out huge second mortgages, used lofty valuations to overleverage their real estate. ❋ Maura Webber Sadovi (2012)
Asking people to overleverage themselves in a stagnant economy with 17.5% real unemployment isn't going to move condos. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Though it's worth noting that Fitch downgraded Aflac's issuer default rating from A+ to A earlier this year, citing overleverage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“History teaches us,” writes Bradford DeLong, “that when none of the three clear and present dangers that justify retrenchment and austerity—interest-rate crowding out, rising inflationary pressures on consumer prices, national overleverage via borrowing in foreign currencies—are present, you should not retrench.” ❋ Gordon Brown (2010)
But when overleverage happens it is invariably doubly dangerous. ❋ Gordon Brown (2010)
Contrary to our expectations, and long-held economic wisdom, the problem the world was to face was not, in the end, high inflation—the cause of every Western recession since the Second World War—but overleverage and undercapitalization, leading to huge financial instability. ❋ Gordon Brown (2010)
If steps aren't taken to ensure the development of more housing, it could "pose elevated risks of problems of overleverage and asset-price deflation down the track," he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In this decade, many companies, financial institutions and governments again started to overleverage, a concern we noted in several Milken Institute forums. ❋ Unknown (2009)
-- Overconfidence, especially among entrepreneurs, who may believe too strongly in their own abilities, causing them to overleverage businesses and underdiversify risks. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This led to overleverage and when the going gets rough, disaster. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In fact, if all the regulations curbing corporate behavior, like many of these banking regulations do, were just eliminated, the end result would certainly be that companies would simplify in order to attract investment, because complications and overleverage would tend to drive away investors. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The financial problem we face today was a problem of overleverage, of too much debt — but that's exactly what Federal Reserve policy encouraged. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He did not let the fiscal resources he invested in overleverage. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
But if the Germans remain absent from the euro-zone credit markets for much longer, the credit crunch is likely to worsen in areas already exposed to potential overleverage and cooling economies. ❋ Meyrick Chapman (2008)
