Conventional wisdom is against leverage. It reeks of imprudence. It gets the blame for financial disasters (sometimes fittingly). Yet the unconventional wisdom here is that leverage is often both ...
After a steady increase following the global financial crisis, private nonfinancial sector leverage rose further during the COVID-19 on the back of easy financial conditions induced by unprecedented ...
A company needs financial capital to operate its business. For most companies, financial capital is raised by issuing debt securities and by selling common stock. The amount of debt and equity that ...