A vote for President Obama is a vote for a future where spending stabilizes well above its 40-year average, and where tax revenue gradually rises — thanks to the leverage afforded the president by the expiration of the Bush tax cuts — to pay for Social Security, Medicare, the president' health care law and more.
Or will it be the bankrupt, octogenarian Cuban regime of the Castro brothers, with its growing dissident movement led by youthful figures who have managed to garner and hold the world's attention — thanks to the leverage provided by the United States' focus on "freedom first"?
However, thanks to the leverage of options trading, the interim value of the position could easily jump if the trader is correct in betting that Wednesday's decline in the value of the yen is merely a pause.
Given that he has swanked about how Canada's banks survived the great crisis of 2008 in better shape than most others thanks to a leverage ratio less onerous than the Bank of England's new one, it would not be a great surprise if he opted for delay in Britain.
If you think of the incredible momentum that OTT has been gaining, thanks to its ability to leverage audience-based buying, it is clear how much more value linear TV will unlock once it can fully leverage emerging technologies to deliver more personalized experiences to advertisers' target consumers.
All Germany's Land barons have big leverage thanks to their seats in the Bundesrat, the second chamber of the Bonn parliament, which can veto some government bills and delay others.
But if such a transition is to do anything for the region's long-term health, the outside world needs to rethink its approach.Awkwardly for the West, China has the greatest leverage, thanks to its unseemly haste to invest in North Korea's mines and ports.
They do not have much other leverage: thanks to the oil boom, Russia is no longer dependent on foreign loans to stay afloat.In the short and medium term, the likeliest outcome is that the economy will grow just enough to keep the country from collapsing, postponing any crunch.
That means that, thanks to the magic of leverage in a rising market, your brothers' investment will have doubled in value to $400,000, representing a return of 10.4% per year.
