Tales of leverage

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There is widespread recognition that the benign conditions of recent years encouraged a sharp increase in leverage within the financial system. Responding to the high levels of debt that contributed to the current financial crisis, the Turner Review - a report on global banking regulation published in March and written by Adair Turner, chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority - proposed a limit on the absolute leverage of financial institutions. This has been echoed by other regulators.

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