Sentences with phrase «banks as the lever»

«The Republican agenda is to get regulatory relief for the big banks and use the small banks as the lever to do so,» said Adam Levitin, a professor at Georgetown University.

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The bank sees it as unneccesary and views the cash stockpiles as the only available lever to goose the economy.

We are currently undergoing one of the biggest financial experiments of all time, as central banks have run out of levers to pull.

Now, I think M3 is quite useful as a gauge of how much banks are levering themselves up in terms of credit creation, versus the Fed expanding its monetary base.

Crises do not come as a result of a gold standard but from overly levered banking where liabilities are short and assets are long.

If a bank has superior risk control, they will earn the results over time; they should not as a result lever up more.

When I was on «The Ron Smith Show» two weeks ago (sorry, no podcast), I commented that the credit crisis was a global phenomenon, and the European banks were more levered than US banks, though with less credit stress as a percentage of assets.

In this post, I'd like to (i) describe the significance of using the financial industry as a lever point for environmental change, (ii) summarize the different ways in which the concept of «green finance» plays out with Chinese banks, (iii) discuss some of the more interesting observations by the Report, and (iv) conclude with the Report's recommendations.