Massive speculation and borrowing led to excessive debt burdens and ultimately, to default.

But it's also, of course, to do with the massive crisis that followed excessive leverage, excessive borrowing in the private sector.

The Greek attempt to create a land of milk and honey by excessive borrowing is hair raising.

This time was not different. Massive speculation and borrowing led to excessive debt burdens and ultimately, to default.

The US economy has been sustained by a consumption boom fueled by excessive borrowing, and that will be curtailed.

Moreover, beyond the housing market, excessive borrowing by financial institutions and some segments of the corporate and public sectors occurred in many economies.

What is now required to resolve the technical issue is some mechanism for assuming existing debt and preventing excessive borrowing in the future.

The risks will undoubtedly grow if sub national authorities and private sector entities gain similar access to the international capital markets, which could result in excessive borrowing.

Turkey has also amended its tax laws to penalize excessive external borrowing by non financial firms and to introduce significant incentives aimed at encouraging long term household savings.

And it would impose stricter market discipline on debtor countries than they currently face, because they could issue Eurobonds only to refinance maturing ones any additional borrowing would have to be in their own name, and markets would impose penalty rates for excessive borrowing.

Borrowing isn't begging.

I think it's excessive Internet use in general, excessive video gaming, excessive new access to pornography.

Possible excessive.

Perhaps excessive.

I'm only borrowing it.

Because it's not just amateurs borrowing from big studios, but sometimes big studios borrowing back.

In both cases, the credit system got out of control, with too much lending to the private sector in 1980 s Japan and excessive government borrowing during the 2000 s in the eurozone.

Excessive lead times

Excessive cash balances

Isn't it excessive?

That's really excessive.

Sami was always borrowing money.

Possibilities for outside commercial borrowing

borrowing required (Millions of dollars)

I'm essentially borrowing 100, right?

Some people say, I mean, borrowing a 1 from the 10's place is really like borrowing a 10. So for simplicity let's just say we're borrowing a 1.

Spanish borrowing costs are also rising.

Explanatory note on outside commercial borrowing

It's like borrowing your friend's husband...

Now let me do my borrowing.

Borrowing 'em. You'll get 'em back.

Excessive use of force

Instead, regulation should seek to force banks investors to bear much more of their own risk, and thus to care much more about managing it, in order to limit the collateral damage of their excessive borrowing.

Vibrant cultures are constantly changing and borrowing from other cultures and that borrowing is not always from the US.

First comes growth driven by foreign borrowing.

Mother, will you please stop borrowing trouble?

There's going to be no more borrowing.

And don't come borrowing my thermometer anymore!

It winds up borrowing temporarily with short term debt then, as borrowing accumulates, it is refinanced with longer term securities.

(c) Excessive use of force

Instead, the group s report underscores the true risk for Europe a return to the soft budget constraints both private and public and excessive borrowing that overheated its southern and western periphery and gave rise to destabilizing trade imbalances.

In other ESCWA countries, budget deficits were financed partly through borrowing, especially domestic borrowing, and partly through improved tax collection methods.

Regrettably, all too often there has been a one sided view of the causes of the debt crisis which tends to fault the developing countries for excessive and imprudent borrowing and for the misuse of the resources thus obtained.

But when politicians say growth, they mean borrowing.

Hence, the current borrowing policy is, justifiably, cautious.