The U.S. economy has become more leveraged as the recession progressed.

Twitter has been leveraged as a marketing platform by social networking-savvy companies for some time now.

In addition, European banks are almost twice as highly leveraged as their U.S. counterparts while they have on average much less core capital.

That consumer toy worked its way into the corporate network and was eventually not just accepted, but embraced and leveraged as a valuable tool.

Okusanya said that he did not believe Annaly and MFA would receive similar margin calls because they are not as heavily leveraged as Carlyle Capital.