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- verb Present participle of
overborrow .
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Examples
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Many Chinese commentators have blamed American overborrowing and excess for dragging them into a recession.
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The message: Markets are getting ready to punish Germany for the sin of its neighbors' overborrowing, unless Germany allows the sin of money-printing to paper over those sins in the short term.
Memo to Europe: Forget the War Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Nonprofit and state agency student-loan organizations have long used a multitude of programs to ensure responsible borrowing and prevent overborrowing.
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The bloc's prescription for a crisis spurred by overborrowing and overspending is a dose of radical fiscal rectitude, delivered fast.
For Ordinary Greeks, Big Bailout Adds Up to Years of Hardship Charles Forelle 2011
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Many Chinese commentators have blamed American overborrowing and excess for dragging them into a recession.
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Second, emerging markets got into serious trouble through private sector overborrowing both in the 1970s (Latin America, communist Poland and Romania) and in the 1990s (many parts of Asia).
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This slump wasn't caused by the economy "overheating," but by overborrowing -- on a massive scale, and over many years.
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Second, emerging markets got into serious trouble through private sector overborrowing both in the 1970s (Latin America, communist Poland and Romania) and in the 1990s (many parts of Asia).
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Rather, why did lenders facilitate such overborrowing?
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The middle of the consensus has started to move, against mega-banks and against dangerous overborrowing by the financial sector.
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