"excess leverage" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when referring to taking on too much debt when purchasing an asset. For example: "The company was hurt by taking on too much debt in the form of excess leverage."
But regulatory lapses and excess leverage throughout the system, he says, contributed as well.
I proposed that we go further and consider a tax on "excess leverage" in the financial sector.
There's a connection between the sluggish, even stagnant income growth we've seen for the middle and excess leverage.
The excess leverage in many LBOs does not diminish the value of prudent debt-for-equity substitution in public companies.
Stripped of excess leverage and more tightly supervised by regulators, investment bankers may even rediscover the old-fashioned virtues of corporate finance.
And for the most part, it certainly seems to have turned excess leverage and overly complex borrowing structures into a pariah.
Back then I seem to recall a certain masochistic comfort in the notion that the laws of gravity still prevailed; we understood we were being punished for our sins: wretched excess, greed, leverage, trophy wives, nightclubs with exclusionary door policies, post-modern architecture, cocaine, Duran Duran, the couture of Christian Lacroix.
Second, EM will continue to capitalize on global low interest environment and abundant liquidity even as they implement structural adjustment policies and reforms, as well as while part of their non-financial corporates deal with the legacy of the excess debt leverage built until recently.
There is a risk that these sacrifices will not be extracted when the time comes, but the prospect might still check the worst excesses of leverage.
I see the ability to leverage excess capacity as completely disruptive.
In recent months, however, scores of hedge funds have quietly died or spectacularly imploded, wracked by bad investments, excess borrowing or leverage, and client redemptions — or a combination of those events.
