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 is irrevocable and designed to protect a beneficiary’s inheritance from creditors, civil lawsuits resulting from an alleged $100,000 bank fraud and/or, as importantly, their own financial irresponsibility.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 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

How can I persuade my parents not to be spendthrifts on our dime?

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

For many spendthrifts, these platforms are not a mentally safe space.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021

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

They were jeered at as mad spendthrifts by the very men who had urged them to their folly.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury