On a spree!

A lark, a spree

The boys say I am just the type to take upon a spree

Just one good spree for meself an' the missus... givin' pleasure to ourselves and employment to others

The global spree of frigates building If China does not build this type of warships, will it fall behind?

I have no wish to change the club's ethos or embark on an unsustainable spending spree, he said upon taking over.

And, in fact, you could say that the expansion of the Empire was really sort of one long, drawn out militarized shopping spree, really.

Buying foreign gold did succeed in driving down the dollar s value in terms of gold. But domestic prices continued falling throughout the three months of the gold buying spree.

An American friend of mine speculated that, We might be one terrorist act away from a Trump presidency. A spectacular murder spree by Islamists could spook Americans enough to vote for the greatest fear monger.

For example, Ryan supported George W. Bush s spending spree. He also supports maintaining defense spending at or near its current level resisting the cuts that were put in place under the Budget Control Act of 2011.

With no limit, profligate countries could go on a spending spree at the expense of thriftier ones. After the advent of the euro, the eurozone s Mediterranean members enjoyed a lending boom while piggybacking on Germany s low interest rates.

Similarly, inefficient state banks far inferior to private banks even in Kazakhstan or Ukraine dominate the banking system. The not very profitable state owned Vneshtorgbank, for example, is on a buying spree, aggravating the quality of Russian banking.

It is not easy to do this when the rich get richer enjoying their biggest spree since the Roaring Twenties and average household income remains stagnant for the third decade running. Social equity is not irrelevant even in America, the land of opportunity.

MADRID Mohamed Merah s killing spree in and around Toulouse in March, like the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 suicide attacks in London s Underground, has highlighted once again the dilemmas that Europe faces with regard to its growing Muslim minority. No social integration model has proven to be free of flaws.

Likewise, when it comes to civil wars in the Middle East, Western restraint is usually a better strategy than hasty military intervention driven by domestic fear. Republican candidates in the US are already using the recent murder spree in Paris to blame President Barack Obama, and by extension any future Democratic candidate, for being weak.

In some countries, most notably the US, a private sector credit boom created jobs in low skilled industries like construction, and precipitated a consumption boom as people borrowed against overvalued houses. In other countries, like Greece, as well as under regional administrations in Italy and Spain, a government led hiring spree created secure jobs for the moderately educated.

If business prospects are weak, companies are unlikely to invest if households are drowning in debt, they are unlikely to go on a spending spree. The ECB is about to discover the truth of this as it starts on its own 1 trillion program of monetary expansion in an effort to stimulate the stagnant eurozone economy.

With rising tax revenues and the burden of debt gone after the default a decade ago, the government went on a spending spree real public expenditure grew at double digit rates most years since 2002. At the same time, the central bank kept interest rates low, so that the inflation adjusted cost of loans is zero or negative.

This strategy will exact a heavy price, just as it did in Japan twenty years ago. The main lesson of Japan s approach is that launching an aggressive buying spree overseas merely upsets established international balances of interests thus generating greater tensions with the rest of the world while hiding the seriousness of structural problems at home.

Large holders of sterling balances Nehru s India, Nasser s Egypt, and Peron s Argentina all embarked on major nationalizations and a public sector spending spree they built railways, dams, steel works. The sterling balances proved to be the starting point of vast and inefficient state planning regimes that did long term harm to growth prospects in all the countries that took this course.

But the main lesson of 9 11 is that in any free society a tiny number of people can exploit their freedom and do vast damage, especially when the underlying motivation is incoherent. This is exemplified in very different ways by the murderous killing spree in Norway in July, and now by WikiLeaks disgraceful release of huge numbers of unredacted diplomatic cables.