Sanjeev: What are your thoughts about the cheap financial leverage available to startups today?
Such was the experience in an earlier application of financial leverage -- the South African divestment campaign.
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Interest-bearing debt was JPY 1.2 trillion, relatively high financial leverage for a manufacturing company with high operating leverage.
They have no financial leverage, but they are citizens of the United States no more but no less than anyone else.
Rather than financial leverage, the new generation of leaders will need to become masters of capability leverage, finding and mobilizing talent anywhere.
We're sitting on lots of cash and little debt and can use financial leverage to fatten up things we think are attractive.
Traditionally, the federal government has used its financial leverage to cajole the provinces to apply the principles of the Canada Health Act.
But with the French balking that would make it very difficult for the U.S. to have any kind of financial leverage over Iran.
Combining this with their zeal for yield (and plentiful liquidity to finance it) led to immense speculation that was implemented by gigantic financial leverage.
Strong growth on local turf has given DeNA the financial leverage to go on an aggressive buying spree here in the U.S. this year.
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Now, common sense suggests that lower union numbership and weaker union financial leverage will make it easier for private and public schools to fire underperforming instructors.
Geithner attributed the strength of the U.S. banks, including the largest ones, to sustainable levels of capital and financial leverage as well as stable funding sources.
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If past experience is a guide, a sustainable rally will ultimately be accompanied by a renewed preference for growth versus dividends and less aversion to financial leverage.
The Age of Deleveraging forecasts a similar decade, at least quite a few years, of slow growth and deflation as financial leverage and other excesses of past decades are worked off.
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Second, and most important, however, is that actual deflation (where money becomes increasingly valuable with time) is impractical in an economy possessing as much monetary and financial leverage as the one we have today.
Overspeculation in real estate construction, specifically commercial properties in major markets like New York, Los Angeles and Dallas were ominous precursors of excessive financial leverage employed by operators, abetted by the reserve city banking community.
Now these aging and sometimes decrepit institutions are in need of new talent and technology, and they lack the financial leverage to cope with malpractice and other costs that are rising faster than government reimbursements.
Wahlstrom says the company meets the requirements for a leveraged buyout or management buyout, chiefly positive free cash flow and low financial leverage, and says it is "more likely than not" that a buyout will happen.
With new financial regulation, leverage is now below 15 to 1 and declines further as Volcker-inspired regulation comes into play next couple of years.
It would be regulated by the SEC and be dependent on its own performance and not a bunch of financial activities with leverage that few can understand, much less put a dollar value on.
Bear markets brought on by financial catastrophe in the form of fraud, leverage and greed are the financial markets version of a haunted house.
Financial regulators must look beyond the leverage within individual institutions to the stability of complex financial systems as a whole.
Africa presents Wall Street a powerful challenge to demonstrate successful leverage of financial strength in a manner befitting our humanity.
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Perhaps AIG is the most extreme example of leverage as financial hari-kari.
After 2004 Buffett could well have had a look at the rising leverage at financial institutions, especially in their little understood handling of derivatives.
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Clinton recognized the untapped potential in some Carter-era legislation, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which would give his administration leverage over financial institutions to increase loans to members of key voting blocs despite their relatively poor credit ratings.
The legislation would establish a Financial Services Oversight Council, which would have to consider a bank's "scope, scale, exposure, leverage, interconnectedness of financial activities".
Credit the brainy Rubenstein for outing the rates of leverage in the financial system.
Financial companies continue to reduce leverage, but that, along with continued falling asset values, is increasing the need to raise capital.
Though a secondary player in the crisis, derivatives are a perennial candidate for causing the next one because they add opacity and leverage to the financial system.
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