easy money
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- David Siegel built the greatest timeshare empire the world has ever seen on a mountain of easy money and cheap credit.
What fluctuates the most is land value because land, when there's cheap, easy money in a market, land values just get bit up through the roof.
- What fluctuates the most is land value because land, when there's cheap, easy money in a market, land values just get bit up through the roof.
- And that the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world have built this House of Cards through not just easy money, but ever easier money.
Examples
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During the economic boom, many people took advantage of easy money to finance their new homes.
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It was the easy money policies of the Fed from 2002 to 2007 that caused the economic collapse, not Bush.
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Many who came along for the ride of easy money will have second thoughts and will desert them.
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Everyone was enjoying easy money, while very few were considering the consequences.
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The banks became addicted to easy money.
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Easy money policy can have long-lasting negative effects; a weak dollar being one of them.
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This intensifying internal Fed debate over the behavior of inflation comes as the central bank plots an exit from an unprecedented experiment in easy money.
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They will discuss such critical issues as the fiscal cliff, ballooning deficits and debt, entitlements, the Fed's easy money policies, and the world economy.
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With easy money available from banks, more families were able to take out loans for their education.
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The policy of easy money encouraged businesses to expand rapidly without worrying about high-interest rates.
Synonyms
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Loans and credit available at very low interest rates
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'easy' (requiring little effort) modifying 'money' — i.e., money obtained with little effort. This adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically transparent and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both words will likely infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Easy money comes from the image of money flowing like water from an open tap when banks let people borrow easily. That's why it refers to 'credit or loans that are easy to get'.