They remain solid companies with balance sheets that, despite steep leverage, can stand up to significant swings in interest rates.
Andy Coulson decided to confront Mr Blunkett to force him to admit to the relationship - hacking was being used as leverage to stand up the story that it could not otherwise uncover.
Thomas Hoenig, the FDIC's second-in-command, told Reuters in an interview last week that Deutsche Bank was "horribly undercapitalized" because its leverage ratio stood at 1.63percentt at the end of last year.
A petition with enough signatures would also give Harry Reid some leverage to stand up more firmly when merging the two Senate bills, or to pursue the reconciliation option that allows passage of key sections with just 50 votes.
And second, both funds employ ample leverage that currently stands at 20% of investment assets for EMD and 11% for HIX.
Those who grasp its true implication and leverage the magic stand a chance of becoming successful and maybe even revolutionary.
The "L"s in the formula stand for leverage and liquidity and the "C"s for concentration, correlation and complexity.
BLAK, which stands for "Building Leverage Acquiring Knowledge," aims to provide low-income African-Americans affordable access to financial and banking services.
"Do you have any sense that you could give us of where you stand on the leverage ratio at the bank level today relative to the 6 percent requirement?" John McDonald, a bank analyst at Bernstein Research, asked on Friday.
Undoubtedly, the other big players, BlackBerry and maybe even Palm would like to do this too, but they haven't had either the leverage, or the gall, to stand up to the carriers in this country the way Apple and Google have.
