Definition of "overleveraging" []

• Present participle of overleverage. (verb)

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• "Government backstops are an invitation to recklessness and overleveraging, which is why the Administration wants to impose a new array of regulations and to have a big say in Wall Street pay packages."
• "Oh, and also look up overleveraging which is what brought down Lehman [IE they didnt have the capital reserves to stay afloat they were 'overleveraged']"
• "As far as economy goes, Tice argues it's dysfunctional, asserting that the excesses -- such as overleveraging and the government's issuance of excessive credit to grow GDP, leading to excessive borrowing and consumption for more than two decades -- still have to be worked out."