Because you're on a hate binge.

China s credit binge is turning into a bust.

We went on a unprecedented global spending binge.

Another drink, another binge, another bender, another spree.

Prospects for America s consumption binge continuing are also bleak.

Say, that must be quite a binge she's on.

If he goes on a binge, he won't be up early.

But they have not prevented a borrowing binge in their private sectors.

This binge mechanism for food or sex was once an evolutionary advantage.

When it's all over, we'll go on a binge, just like old times.

D. The binge eating occurs, on average, at least once a week for 3 months.

First and foremost, America s government and consumers have been engaged in a never ending consumption binge.

Carols, church bells, and mangers are still at the heart of mid winter festivities, alongside the consumer binge.

For example give rats unlimited access to junk food and almost all of them will binge to obesity.

Purchases of these relatively low cost items can be regarded as the withdrawal symptoms of the world s consumer binge.

Lulled into complacency and excess by ample supplies of artificially cheap financing, Irish banks went on a lending binge.

In the years leading up to the crisis, two bubbles property and credit fueled a record high personal consumption binge.

That spending binge will feed corruption, inflation, and natural resource dependency the three evils with which Kudrin has fought throughout his tenure.

As a result, refinancing of mortgages will grind to a halt, leaving no money to draw out of housing to sustain Americans consumption binge.

But the answer is not a low quality investment binge led by government or fuelled by easy credit we know the consequences of that.

I didn't write anything of significance for an entire year. I watched tonnes of meaningless television I binge watched all the seasons of Glee.

Low interest rates eventually jump started the expansion through a house price bubble that supported a debt financed consumer spending binge and triggered a construction boom.

Many economists, including myself, believe that America s thirst for foreign capital to finance its consumption binge played a critical role in the build up of the crisis.

The difference is that China has implemented structural and thus longer lasting credit based policies, while other emerging economies have been drawn into a cyclical lending binge.

It is one thing to borrow to make an investment, which strengthens balance sheets it is another thing to borrow to finance a vacation or a consumption binge.

Happily for world exporters, the same binge mentality that makes a whopping two thirds of Americans either overweight or obese seems to extend to all their purchasing habits.

With the benefit of hindsight, we now know that the 12 year pre crisis US consumer spending binge was built on a precarious foundation of asset and credit bubbles.

That s right with the American consumer on ice in the aftermath of the biggest consumption binge in history, the US economy has drawn its sustenance disproportionately from foreign markets.

Were the Governing Council to miss the coming turn in the European economy while blithely raising interest rates, they would be portrayed as drunken sailors on a rate raising binge.

This enabled a consumption binge, which meant that debt was created without a corresponding asset, and encouraged excessive investment in real estate, resulting in excess capacity that will take years to eliminate.

The periphery of the European Union Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Greece also began a borrowing binge a decade ago, upon joining the euro, fueling a real estate boom that likewise went bust.

If consumers go on a spending binge, we expect the world's central banks to raise interest rates to cool off construction spending and free up the resources needed to prevent shortage inducing inflation.

However, psychiatrists with Yale Medical School have found that people who suffer from Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and consume three meals per day weigh less than those who have meals that are more frequent.

) This was changed because a government study showed that many people were in effect saving up their units and using them at the end of the week, a phenomenon referred to as binge drinking.

The formal diagnosis criteria differ, however, in that subjects must binge at least twice per week for a minimum period of three months for bulimia nervosa and a minimum of 6 months for BED.

I wonder how many others there are like me poor, bedeviled guys on fire with thirst such comical figures to the rest of the world... as they stagger blindly towards another binge... another bender, another spree.

Growth is not just a matter of increasing GDP. It must be sustainable growth based on environmental degradation, a debt financed consumption binge, or the exploitation of scarce natural resources, without reinvesting the proceeds, is not sustainable.

By some reckonings, more than two thirds of the increase in output and employment over the past six years has been real estate related, reflecting both new housing and households borrowing against their homes to support a consumption binge.

While this borrowing binge might end smoothly, as US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has speculated, most world financial leaders are rightly worried about a more precipitous realignment that would likely set off a massive dollar depreciation and possibly much worse.

Government spending especially on unemployment benefits, aid to states, and some construction projects probably helped avert a more wrenching downturn, but continued red ink worries households, which are also trying to rebuild savings and reduce debt after a spending binge.

Males had higher rates than females for all measures of drinking in the past month any alcohol use (57.5 vs. 45 ), binge drinking (30.8 vs. 15.1 ), and heavy alcohol use (10.5 vs. 3.3 ), and males were twice as likely as females to have met the criteria for alcohol dependence or abuse in the past year (10.5 vs. 5.1 ).

And all of this green stuff here, including the spikes which are because you couldn't get to the pharmacy, or you ran out of drugs, or you went on a three day party binge and forgot to take your drugs, or because you've started to get resistance, or whatever all of that is virus that wouldn't be out there, except for treatment.

As for the US, the current undeniable pain for millions of people, which will grow next year as unemployment rises, is an opportunity to rethink the economic model adopted since President Ronald Reagan came to office in 1981. Low taxes and deregulation produced a consumer binge that felt good while it lasted, but also produced vast income inequality, a large underclass, heavy foreign borrowing, neglect of the environment and infrastructure, and now a huge financial mess.