spendthrift

She was spendthrift . Money was no object for her . She kept buying more and more jewelry , causing her husband to go bankrupt.

Yet many of Asia's tiger economies seem to have been hit harder than their spendthrift Western counterparts.

the world seems to have gotten awfully spendthrift since I went into the slam - and looking for hayfields.

Americans are beginning to accept that their country must become less spendthrift.

Yet reasoning of this kind is increasingly used to explain how spendthrift countries get into trouble.

More niggling is the suspicion that the ECB has caved in to political pressure to help out spendthrift governments.

Yet it was his late father Andreas, a spendthrift Pasok premier, who sowed the seeds of Greece's crisis with a borrowing spree in the 1980s.

But as those banks start blowing up and its economy shrinks, Spain will look more like its spendthrift southern European neighbor.

Even some of the more muted coverage has, more or less, characterized Amazon as a shopaholic or spendthrift of sorts.

He believes this change in behaviour marks a long-term shift from the spendthrift habits of the boom to a savings culture.

She is nobody's idea of a spendthrift, happily chucking money in the direction of the undeserving poor.

China, some economists say, lulled American consumers, and their leaders, into complacency about their spendthrift ways. . .

Every year the avenue is more lustrously paved with the gold of a million spendthrift tourists from mainland China.

You ' re like a lot of others, a loose spender, that's what you are. A spendthrift.

Countries like Hungary had big, over-leveraged financial systems, plagued by reckless lending and spendthrift consumers.

But even in the United States, the most spendthrift of nations, the private sector finally got religion.

And unless your spouse is a complete spendthrift, compromising is a heck of a lot cheaper than a divorce.

Much of the talk will be about mechanisms for reprimanding spendthrift governments.

Inflation was tamed , and spendthrift local and federal governments were required by law to rein in their debts .

Peacetime as not to waste food, water and electricity, no spendthrift, and the students build friendships.

That shift has upset some other EU countries that had relied on selling to spendthrift British consumers.

as became a good manager , he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.

I'm a goddam spendthrift at heart. What I don't spend, I lose.

If you're a spendthrift picking a mate, you might unconsciously be looking for help reining in bad spending habits.

Her team has quickly signalled the need for some budget austerity after Lula's last two spendthrift years.

Thus the savings of poor Asian farmers have financed the habits of spendthrift Westerners.

He is haunted by the actions of Unoka, his cowardly and spendthrift father, who died in disrepute, leaving many village debts unsettled.

If they realise that their parents are of good income, they will be spendthrift.

A spendthrift will allow a few people to monopolize her attention.

Bloom is a true emotional spendthrift who uses his feelings lavishly.

Respondents were rated on a 'Tightwad-Spendthrift scale' based on how each partner felt about spending money.

But stealth parties offer the privileged a chance to consume without an inner censor chiding them for their spendthrift ways.

Thusthe savings of poor Asian farmers have financed the habits of spendthrift Westerners.

After a brief pause, shoppers have resumed their spendthrift ways.

Those that used to play are playing still, so spendthrift is life.

But now consumers are on a diet, and it is hard to imagine them returning to their spendthrift ways anytime soon.

When I was a boy, my dad observed my spendthrift ways and often said that money burned a hole in my pocket.

Instead of resuming their old spendthrift ways, they are saving.

But the sad truth is, if you're a spendthrift. . .

By Tara Conry Are you a repentant spendthrift who's thinking that all this frugality is looking pretty sexy?

With its gleaming shopping malls and omnipresent luxury brands, Hong Kong is an easy place to turn spendthrift.

prodigal extravagant lavish spendthrift wasteful squander proliferate

But the bonanza also risks feeding some Brazilian vices: a spendthrift and corrupt political system;

and spendthrift local and federal governments were required by law to rein in their debts

What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,