During the boom years, Americans borrowed more, usually against higher home values; they saved less and spent more.

在繁荣的年代，美国人借贷较多，通常比他们抵押的房屋所值还要多；他们储蓄少而消费多。

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In boom times Western consumers used it to enhance their lifestyles, companies borrowed to expand their businesses and investors employed debt to enhance their returns.

在经济繁荣时期，西方消费者用它来提升生活品质，公司借助它以期扩大业务，投资商通过债务来提高收益。

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In a recent report, the International Monetary Fund said Indian companies were among the world's most vulnerable, after American firms, because they borrowed aggressively during the boom.

在最近的一份报告中，国际货币基金组织说，在美国公司之后，印度公司是世界上最脆弱的，因为他们在繁荣时期频繁的借款。

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The consultants McKinsey has returned to one of the business and economic issues of our age, the massive debts of the rich developed countries that borrowed excessively to fuel growth in the boom years.

BBC: US ahead of UK on road to reducing debts

Many now see this era as a fools' paradise - during which pretty much everyone had an exaggerated faith in the stability of the economy, such that banks lent too much, many businesses and consumers borrowed too much, and the government fooled itself into thinking that tax revenues flowing in from a debt-fuelled boom would be sustainable.

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