The word "ballooning" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a verb to describe the act of ascending into the air in a hot air balloon, or to describe the act of increasing in size, number, or intensity. Example sentence: The ballooning cost of college tuition has caused many students to take out expensive loans.
Watson asserted Schott explicitly raised concerns about the ballooning costs.
Nevertheless, as the Treasury Secretary reminded his rather complacent audience: 'The laws of economics have not been repealed, much less those of human psychology.' Between the lines of recent remarks by Summers and his predecessor, Robert Rubin, one detects serious concern about the US stock market, the ballooning US trade deficit and the dependence of the US economy on 'other people's money'.
Thus, when credit was ballooning and cheap in the 1990s and 2000s, every bond seller in sight was routinely rewarded with triple-A ratings.
When the currency Juncker helped to create started to unravel in 2010 under the weight of a ballooning banking and sovereign debt emergency, he played a key role, for better or for worse, in the crisis management as president for eight years of the Eurogroup, the committee of eurozone finance ministers that created the instruments to save the currency and plotted a wayward route out of disaster.
But that proved to be a mere blip on Fremantle's radar, with the lead ballooning to 48 points by half-time.
Like always, investors were first to notice the emperor had no clothes, and since January they started selling Greek bonds, alarmed about the country's shrinking economy, inability to collect taxes and ballooning debts.
Bond markets have seen heavy selling of Spanish government bonds on concerns of a ballooning deficit and unrealised losses in the domestic banking sector.
For years, the political consensus has been that Japan's consumption (ie, value-added) tax needs to go up in order to control a ballooning public debt.
It is notable that the reform effort is led by mayors; Democrats in the state legislature, many with strong union links, are less exposed to the consequences of ballooning pension costs and some will oppose reform.
A rather higher rate would seem necessary in order to cover the ballooning cost America's entitlement programmes.From the left, the objection to a VAT is that it's regressive.
For years the government tried to contain inequality, but when benefits were cut to keep a ballooning welfare budget in check, it shot up again (see chart 5).
