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Fiscal prudence is as important as ever over the medium and long term.
Budgetary prudence is both desirable (unsustainable deficits owe their name to the fact that they cannot be sustained) and progressive (when things blow up, it is the poor and the vulnerable who suffer the most).
At the least, prudence should give the reformer pause.
What is clear is that successful denuclearization of North Korea will require a combination of bold political decisions – say, formally ending the Korean War, opening liaison offices, or relaxing some economic sanctions – and realistic prudence.
But even when making these graduated choices, a leader also owes his followers a duty of prudence – of remembering the Hippocratic oath to first of all, do no harm.
Ignatieff says Obama already owns the consequences of his inaction;Friedman reminds him of the virtue of prudence.
A majority of the Fed’s governors believes that aggressive monetary expansion has reached, if not exceeded, the bounds of prudence.
Mathematical whiz kids developed new financial instruments, which, by promising to rob debt of its sting, broke down the barriers of prudence and self-restraint.
Indeed, from the beginning, countries with no history of fiscal prudence or sound economic policies lacked any motivation to play by the rules; on the contrary, they had every incentive to violate them.
It has often been claimed that capitalism rewards the qualities of self-restraint, hard-work, inventiveness, thrift, and prudence.
Hard work and inventiveness are still rewarded, but self-restraint, thrift, and prudence surely started to vanish with the first credit card.
These basic rules of prudence included no direct fighting, no first use of nuclear weapons, and crisis communication, such as the Moscow-Washington hotline and the Accidents Measures and Incidents at Sea agreements.
The trouble with the human-rights agenda is that its advocates become trigger-happy, whereas Russia’s foreign policy displays the virtues of conservative prudence.
But, then again, the Republican Party, standing in solidarity with Trump, seems suddenly to have forgotten its longstanding commitment to free trade, much like a few months ago, when it forgot its longstanding commitment to fiscal prudence.
Both morality and prudence demand that several criteria be satisfied before any use of force is approved.
In such a complex and uncertain context, prudence is critical, and bold action based on a grandiose vision can be extremely dangerous.
Most southern European nations today display public finances that are Lutheran in their prudence.
Brown’s reputation for fiscal prudence evaporated with the Great Recession.
One problem is that, after a long period of fiscal prudence, Russia’s government has shown extraordinary ineptitude.
When we cannot be sure how to improve the world, prudence becomes an important virtue, and hubristic visions can pose a grave danger.
Moreover, prudence does not mean that humanitarian interventions will always fail.
Caught between Italian legislators who, deep down, do not understand that change and markets in quest of near-immediate certainties, can Monti transcend his natural prudence and act with sufficient clarity and decisiveness?
Eurozone leaders could also set out a roadmap towards Eurobonds, subject to strict conditionality, and tied to a credible mechanism for ensuring fiscal prudence.
The Federal government has thrown fiscal prudence out the window.
In their estimation, a complex regional environment has now become even more dangerous, making prudence even more urgent.
Given that the two Koreas marched together in three Olympic Games since 2000, prudence is advisable.
We see great strengths in the Mexican economy – a stable macroeconomic environment, fiscal prudence, low inflation, little country risk, a flexible labor force, a strengthened and solvent banking system, successfully reformed poverty-reduction programs, high earnings from oil, and so on.
Aristotle argues in his Nicomachean Ethics that natural rules of justice exist, but that their application demands flexibility and prudence.
Giving lectures about fiscal prudence is beside the point.
In Africa, too, strong economic growth, macroeconomic reform, fiscal prudence, and improved governance have helped to reduce poverty.
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