spendthrift

Yardeni Research President Ed Yardeni said Thursday that the results offer the “latest evidence that consumers have continued their spendthrift ways.”

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

A spendthrift trust “prevents your child from selling, borrowing against, or misusing their inheritance,” Cote says.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026

No one today any longer wishes to hear jokes about nagging mothers-in-law, spendthrift wives or old jalopies, and the men and women who once told them to hardy plaudits are now forgotten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Trusts also allow you to put restrictions on how money is spent, which can be important if your heir is a minor child, a spendthrift or someone reliant on public benefits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2024

Mr. Tomony who owned the pawnshop came home in a hansom cab from his spendthrift evening in New York.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

I will uphold his wishes, but if I outlive him and there’s no agreement in place, I would likely give little to nothing to his children because they are irresponsible spendthrifts.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Clearing her throat, she started to read aloud: “Workers earn it, spendthrifts burn it, bankers lend it.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2019

The reason massive stars are such spendthrifts is that, as we saw above, the rate of fusion depends very strongly on the star’s core temperature.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Rich spendthrifts, who spend every dollar they have in the present, will wind up paying taxes on their total income, as per usual.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2011

The King, who was ill at figures, like all true spendthrifts, sat confused by her speech.

From Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time by George C. Hazelton