Sentence examples for borrowing spree from inspiring English sources

State firms went on a borrowing spree.

As Fed chairman, Bernanke inherited an unprecedented housing bubble and an unsustainable borrowing spree.

Governments have been propping up the world economy with a borrowing spree of their own.

First, consumers face huge debt left over from the borrowing spree of the past decade.

State spending grew explosively, financed by a borrowing spree, internal and external.

The borrowing spree was fuelled by an increase in personal loans and overdrafts.

Ordinary American households have also gone on prodigious borrowing sprees.

Countries that desperately needed structural reform, such as Greece, instead were able to go on a spending spree, borrowing money at rates well below those they would have obtained before joining the single currency.

GARY SHILLING: Oh, yeah, but we haven't had the combination of the widespread financial problems, consumers coming off a 25-year borrowing and spending spree, the globalization.

Unlike traditional member items, those expenditures are financed by borrowed money, part of an almost unprecedented spree of state borrowing totaling $8 billion for this fiscal year.

"We went on a borrowing, spending and taxing spree, and that nearly drove us under," said Deputy Prime Minister Mary Harney.