Sentences with phrase «excessive financial leverage»

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The financial crisis was due, in large part, to excessive leverage and excessive investment in real estate assets.

«I expect that the evolution of the financial system in response to global economic forces, technology, and, yes, regulation will result sooner or later in the all - too - familiar risks of excessive optimism, leverage, and maturity transformation reemerging in new ways that require policy responses.»

Most recently, though, on January 7, 2017, in a speech at the American Finance Association, you seemed to step out of that centrally casted character, almost coming across as an iron fist in a velvet glove: «The bottom line is that there has not been an excessive buildup of leverage, maturity transformation, or broadly unsustainable asset prices... Overall, I do not see leveraged finance markets as posing undue financial stability risks.

While the US residential mortgage market was the primary cause, we all know that its helpmate in sparking a global financial crisis was excessive leverage in the financial system.

The report cites regulatory failures, lapses in corporate governance, and excessive leverage as key factors contributing to the financial crisis.