付つけ景げい気き

noun

borrowed prosperity; false boom; debt-fueled prosperity

Refers to an economic upturn that is not based on real growth but on borrowing, speculation, or temporary factors. Often used critically to describe unsustainable booms.

• この好こう景けい気きは付つけ景気げいきに過すぎないと専せん門もん家かは警けい告こくしている。

  Experts warn that this boom is nothing more than borrowed prosperity.

• バブル期きの付つけ景気げいきがはじけて、長ながい不ふ況きょうが続つづいた。

  The debt-fueled prosperity of the bubble era burst, and a long recession followed.