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But avoiding the sort of profligate spending of the US and UK has not saved Japan, Germany and China from credit bust fallout.

Even where troubled euro-zone countries had not been profligate, they have been running unsustainable current-account deficits.

Meanwhile, in the other group there was little inclination either to profligate spending or to good works.

The profligate glory days of limitless water everywhere seem to be over.

Mr. Jackson appears to have been guilty of profligate spending and reckless indifference to his financial affairs.

The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.

It must have, but reining in such a profligate program that subsidizes idleness is an idea that makes sense.

Voters in the donor country would be outraged if the rewards of their thrift were used to rescue the profligate.

Such promises, though necessary to convince the prudent to rely on the fund, will however tempt some countries to run profligate policies.

German public opinion is firmly set against dipping into the public purse to help the profligate Greeks.

She recognises the deep hostility of her voters to big fiscal transfers to weaker, more profligate euro-zone countries.

All of the Western religions begin with the notion of Eden, and descend through a kind of profligate present, to a very ugly future.

But it also reflects a new-found determination by the bloc to get its hands dirty fixing the fiscal problems of its profligate members.

Much of the money that fueled the speculative boom came from profligate Spanish banks.

He is also rumoured to have struggled with significant financial difficulties caused by his profligate spending.

Granted, Merkel has been hamstrung by voters who are in no mood to see their taxes diverted to profligate neighbors.

That, too, is a chance for the new government to show that it is not as profligate as its opponents have claimed.

Profligate deficit countries may have created these viruses. They are not the most vulnerable to it.

The point of this profligate eye candy?

All fell back to make way for the sufferers; and all, even the very rudest and most profligate , were struck with shame and silence.

Where Labour presided over a profligate boom and bust, the risk now is of economic stagnation.

Historian Niall Ferguson has made the case that high debt and profligate spending will cause the downfall of a once mighty empire.

But it needs to concentrate on institutional ways of disciplining profligate governments, rather than starving the rescue package of funds.

Democrats are so wary of sounding profligate that they seldom mention their chief strategy for reducing unemployment while campaigning.

Greater disclosure will allow investors to differentiate between those municipalities which run a tight ship and those that are profligate.

And reducing the borrowing costs of the profligate could increase them for the virtuous and reduce the incentive for reform.

"So these changes are only a minor portent of what is likely to come, especially if we continue on our carbon-profligate pathway. "

They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard. "

This will hurt Greece's creditors, but those entities assumed the risk when they loaned to a country long known for its profligate ways.

For that, some blame must lie with the profligate government.

Germany, which relies heavily on exports, has lectured Washington about its economic policies, which Berlin sees as profligate and damaging.

In Germany, the euro crisis has made it permissible to denounce profligate and corrupt southern Europeans.

But, this can be seen as a symptom of new urban wealth being put to speculative use, rather than the profligate use of leverage.

That, in turn, prolonged global imbalances by making it easier for profligate countries to finance their current-account deficits.

Influential American thinktanks are asking why should we reward profligate reproductive behaviour?

it could provide collective insurance for the prudent and conditional assistance for the profligate.

neither profligate nor sparing of her time.

Now Greece is the profligate spender and shaky debtor of Europe, threatening to drag the financial system into another global crisis.

True, not every French farmer welcomes Euro-regulation. Many Germans resent bailing out profligate EU partners.

If we do not stop this profligate spending soon, we risk hyperinflation and seeing a 95% devaluation every year.

If, as is likely, the private sector remains prudent, the public sector will remain profligate.

In the past, many poor countries were so fiscally profligate that no sane investor, even a patriotic one, would lend them his own money.

Now the model is not deflating, but vanishing: once profligate American consumers are saving instead of spending.

Others look profligate: 68 pay their chief executives more than the prime minister's £ 198, 000 a year.

And Qaddafi's profligate weapons purchases have left Libya with mountains of unsecured armaments.

Its unwillingness to subsidise the weak and profligate is understandable; but the alternative is worse.

Profligate governments, mostly in southern Europe, must become more prudent.

Yet no euro-area country wants to give its more profligate fellows the impression that their debts will be covered.

Investors would turn more selective again and governments would pay a toll for profligate policies.

This country is already too profligate, they cry. It already shops too much and borrows too much.

But those still can't guarantee that profligate countries would take on needed structural reforms.

At a stroke, we would know who was profligate with company money and who was parsimonious .

Instead, they will impose fines, a loss of voting rights, or some other form of Germanic sanction on the persistently profligate.

To some people, wireless power transmission will seem like a distinctly profligate and retrograde step.

profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.

Much will also depend on China's continued willingness to lend money to a still-profligate Uncle Sam.

A cool $800 billion or so, on top of the $700 billion for the TARP, looked more profligate than parsimonious.

Rules are useful for governments that are thriftier than Venezuela's but more profligate than Norway's, but only if they stick to them.

People who worked were rewarded, while lazy or profligate people suffer from poverty.

One who wastes, especially one who wastes money; a profligate.

More irksome still is that profligate America is able to borrow on better terms.

The region's profligate economies will struggle for longer as austerity kicks in.

It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate.

Yet they have something in common: both involve the profligate deployment of resources.

Well, a good friend of mind you can calculate the so-called bankruptcy caused by engaging in profligate spending come from?

Profligate spending habits are unlikely to return soon.

He argues this could do the south good by making its profligate and often corrupt politicians accountable to the voters.

The purpose of this profligate eye candy?

Some (mostly Germany) want a tough new regime to punish the profligate.

No, it's a potential euro-zone guarantee for profligate sovereigns.

There are two reasons to doubt that the Germans are suddenly becoming profligate.

Given to licentious and profligate luxury.

Then, Germany made plain it didn't intend to foot the bill indefinitely for the debts of what it saw as profligate governments.

Thus the crisis punishes the frugal more than the profligate.

Worse, they tend to lock developing countries into a needlessly profligate development path, heavily skewed towards fossil fuel.

a profligate heir who decimated his trust FUND.

If Jeanie's distresses had admitted of aggravation, it must have been to find her sister under the charge of such a profligate as this man.

A profligate person; a wastrel.

You cn say Chinese people are entitled to live profligate and extravagant lives but it only works if you have a spare planet to live on.

But this is socialised private debt: the prudent pay for the profligate.

Greece is a true profligate.

As a result, the prudent members of the third world are becoming safer places to invest than the profligate ones of the first.

The trouble is that such profligate investment is largely wasted.

Banks and real estate tycoons in Japan were corrupt, profligate and unsympathetic figures, and no one wanted to help them.

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Even if this profligate use of capital is halved, it still means credit expansion of 10%-15% is needed to achieve real GDP growth of 2%-3%.

America and Europe used to preach to fiscally profligate developing countries about the need for structural adjustment.

That is also supposed to set an example to profligate members of the euro zone.

As investors focus on that gap, the most profligate rich countries, such as Britain, will suffer.

Why DO you bring your profligate companions here?

who is hemmed in by antipathy among taxpayers back home to propping up profligate Greeks and others.

This is not only profligate; it's a kind of lunacy.

America's most profligate states do not owe as much, proportionately, as Greece. But their politics are just as problematic

So is this some giant giveaway to profligate Europeans of U. S. taxpayer money?

I am a profligate not only to my hometown, but also to the elapsing time.

Abu Dhabi, the world's most profligate water user, says it will run out of its ancient fossil water reserves in 40 years;

and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate,

a profligate use of scarce resources