over-trading

But if I were to pronounce on the Tobin tax I think I would be … isn't the City phrase 'over-trading?'

The Guardian World News Alan Rusbridger 2011

Page 335: “When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

The massive growth in property prices is now tapering off leaving the property market at risk of over-trading, property specialists warned on Monday.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

The over-trading abroad, especially in Germany, was influencing us and all the rest of the world, which had not yet recovered from the vast financial cost of the English Boer War.

A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States Cl��ment Juglar

The farmers must be run down and ruined in order to repair the effects of excessive credit and over-trading among the manufacturers; the corn-grower must smart for the sins of the cotton-spinner.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

The cause of this was attributed to over-trading, to the expansion of credits, and to rash investment made in advance of public needs.

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

Railroads were built where they were not needed; furnaces were put up in excess of all possible demands; and over-production and over-trading occurred in all branches of business.

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

The banks had authorized a suspension of specie payment in order to force the issue of bank notes, and to stimulate trade, although Mr. Carey pretends that no over-trading had taken place.

A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States Cl��ment Juglar

This panic was not the result of paper-money inflation, nor of inflated values, nor of reckless over-trading, nor of in-ordinate speculation.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

It is merely reiterating the commonplaces of the newspapers, to talk about "the excessive loans and issues of the banks," and to ring changes of phraseology on the vices of speculation, over-trading, and stock-jobbing.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various