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Demystifying financial leverage

Nov 11, 2022·~18 minutes·1 chapter

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One of the hardest concepts for non-specialists to wrap their heads around in finance is leverage. It is a bit arcane, requires some facility with math, sounds vaguely spooky, and routinely finds itself near smoking craters asking “Did I do that?”

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Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.

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~18 minutes (18K characters)

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Nov 11, 2022