Tag: Leverage

Financiers fret over ‘leverage on leverage’ in private credit

By Paritosh Bansal (Reuters) – To some elite financiers who gathered in Los Angeles for the Milken Institute conference, a debt binge in private markets is reminding them of the go-go days of risk-taking before the 2008 financial crisis. In the halls of the Beverly Hilton and at meetings around town last week, I spoke […]

Johnson gets real about funding leverage as shutdown looms

Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans on a private conference call Friday night that their disunity has ceded leverage to Democrats ahead of the government shutdown deadline next week, according to two people on the call. Johnson and the House’s top Republican funding negotiators plan to spend the weekend trying to reach a final agreement […]