He'd been thinking about it ever since the 2013 government shutdown, a seminal moment for the G.O.P., when the most conservative members of the House Republican conference steered the party into what moderates like Dent thought was an insane strategy of forcing a shutdown to leverage policy concessions from President Obama.
To address the economic significance of the estimated coefficient of 2.188 on MTREBIT reported in Table 2, consider the impact on leverage policy resulting from a movement from average MTREBIT of 0.182 (see Table 1) to the maximum for the sample period (0.300).
The authors discuss four strategies that advocates have used to leverage policy influence.
It sometimes leads to sophisticated leveraging policies, where a college might offer more grants than loans to a desirable student based on the colleges listed on the Fafsa.
But because of its tax-advantaged nature, and the tremendous leverage a policy generates, whole life insurance is certainly worth considering.
Republicans said they hoped to retain at least 41 seats in the Senate, giving them the ability to stop legislation they find most objectionable, and still command some leverage in policy negotiations.
Vincenzo Di Maria: the most smart, inclusive and sustainable social business in the future would focus on food production and distribution – interconnected, decentralised systems could leverage public policy to support local economics systems vs big corporate action.
But humiliation has not changed his will to stay in the race, and now he has advanced another rationale — he can exert leverage over policy debates, in his party as well as in countering President Obama, who Mr. Gingrich is convinced has been forced to go on the defensive over gasoline prices precisely because of his attacks.
It called for measures to limit "excessive leverage", new policy tools to prevent the economy being flooded with credit in a boom and starved of credit in a recession, and for financial institutions to provide more comprehensive disclosure of their results every quarter.
Having learned lessons from 2008, the financial sector has less leverage and policy makers are more acutely aware of their crucial role in providing liquidity during the worst of the storm.
Without a seat at the table, the U.S. loses leverage over policy action on global warming, and cedes influence to rival superpower China, which has vowed to support poorer countries' efforts to adapt to climate change.
