This paper investigates the effects of financial leverage on asset returns in a monetary economy. We show that monetary policy has real effects on asset prices. But, the real effects of money policy under our model are contrary to those documented in previous studies. Moreover, the structure of financial leverage gives us a new explanation for several important empirical findings such as the risk premium, the correlations of the real rates of return on assets with the rate of inflations, the growth rate of output, and the rate of money growth. We also extend this model to a two-country world and find that stock returns will be affected by exchange rates via financial leverage.