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Klein on Threats to the Global Financial System

Moody's Talks - Inside Economics

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The Leverage Loan Market

Leverage lending is lending by generally banks to highly indebted businesses. A lot of it's related to private equity firms that come in and they buy up companies. Half of those leverage loans go into CLOs, collateralized loan obligations. We're talking $700, $800 billion outstanding that's growing very rapidly.

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