And in that sense, ballooning is a beautiful metaphor.

In ballooning, or in life, how do we change altitude?

This shift to heroic leadership can be seen in ballooning CEO compensation.

In other words, China owns a huge chunk of America s ballooning debt.

I mean, I think with the ballooning and boating expeditions we've done in the past.

In the Middle East, this exacerbates the problem of creating jobs for ballooning populations of young adults.

And America s unwillingness to take meaningful steps to reduce its ballooning fiscal deficit further undermines the effectiveness of its foreign policy.

Well, I learned a lot of things about ballooning, especially at the end of these balloon flights around the world I did with Brian Jones.

The ensuing massive bank bailout, plus continued budget deficits and declining nominal GNP, means that Ireland s debt is ballooning, while its capacity to pay has collapsed.

Zimbabwe, for example, is facing a critical economic situation involving food shortages and a ballooning budget deficit, together with inflation, unemployment and the HIV AIDS pandemic.

The current safety net approach may work in the short term but will ultimately lead to ballooning and unsustainable government debts, particularly in the US and Europe.

Two decades ago, the US pressed the Japanese to allow the yen to strengthen against the dollar, claiming that Japan s unfair exchange rate policies were responsible for America s ballooning bilateral trade deficit.

Public debt was still low, but growing rapidly the current account deficit was ballooning (reaching 15 of GDP in 2008) and the banks had gone Icelandic, with assets worth more than three times Cyprus s GDP.

After all, it was price inflation in the crisis countries, fueled by massive inflows of cheap credit following the introduction of the euro, that resulted in their loss of competitiveness, ballooning current account deficits, and accumulation of enormous foreign debt.

BRUSSELS Greece s ballooning public debt is again throwing Europe s financial markets into turmoil. But why should a debt default by the government of a small, peripheral economy one which accounts for less than 3 of eurozone GDP be so significant?

Eagerly followed by national and international media, he began negotiations with the well known aeronaut and balloon builder Henri Lachambre in Paris, world capital of ballooning, and ordered a varnished three layer silk balloon, 20.5 meters (67 ft) in diameter, from his workshop.