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In early 2009, the study found, the average hedge fund had leverage about 1.4 times its equity, compared with the average investment bank leverage ratio of 40 times.

The governor wants to leverage about $4 billion from a giant court settlement with tobacco companies to back bonds.

European leaders agreed to provide another 200 billion euros from their own central banks to the International Monetary Fund and leverage about half of the existing bailout fund, the 440-billion euro European Financial Stability Facility, to give it more impact.

While the fund called for leverage of about 19 times capital, the actual leverage exceeded 30 times capital, Bloomberg reports, citing the lawsuit.

SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION -- $5 billion Spend $5 billion for school construction and renovation, leveraging about $50 billion.

Near the end of its life, Bear Stearns was leveraged about 36-to-1, according to some estimates.

The persistence of innovation means that any information that can be leveraged about the indirect ties in the network will be quite valuable.

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"What is playing out in Washington, D.C., this week is about political leverage, not about what's good for the American people.

So to achieve the returns that investors expected, the professor's fund had to increase leverage to about nine times from about two times.

"It's about leveraging insights about audience demand and then letting these people create a brand that they can call their own," explains Jason Bergsman, senior vice president of the Chernin Group and a Base79 board member.