What is required is easy fiscal policy today, together with plans to achieve fiscal rectitude in the long run. The difficulty with this Augustinian approach Lord, make me chaste, but not yet is that promises of future discipline usually are not credible.

The Tea Party movement exploited this resentment, and Obama is now on the defensive. The Republicans campaign against any further stimulus, and the administration now pays lip service to fiscal rectitude, even if it recognizes that deficit reduction may be premature.

We gave Abraham aforetime his rectitude for We knew him

We gave Abraham aforetime his rectitude for We knew him

Yet the financial crisis and the ensuing recession go only so far towards explaining these high levels of indebtedness. The truth is that many European and G 20 countries have lived far beyond their means including Germany, despite its reputation as a paragon of fiscal rectitude.

Say 'Surely I possess no power over you, either for hurt or for rectitude.'

Say 'Surely I possess no power over you, either for hurt or for rectitude.'

And certainly We gave to Ibrahim his rectitude before, and We knew him fully well.

And certainly We gave to Ibrahim his rectitude before, and We knew him fully well.

Fiscal Challenges and Fiscal Follies

Without statesmen and stateswomen able to articulate a vision of a shared future worth working and even sacrificing for, the side of unity may not win. Europe s national anthem, a circle of stars, and talk of fiscal rectitude and structural reforms cannot compete with the potent messages of the EU s opponents.

The problem is that an unobservable and imprecise variable whose estimates are too inexact and volatile to provide more than a rough roadmap for a country s journey toward fiscal rectitude has become part of an international treaty and the national rules (sometimes of constitutional status) through which it is implemented.

guiding to rectitude. We believe in it, and we will not associate with our Lord anyone.

guiding to rectitude. We believe in it, and we will not associate with our Lord anyone.

And assuredly We vouchsafed un to lbrahim his rectitude aforetime, and him We had ever known.

And assuredly We vouchsafed un to lbrahim his rectitude aforetime, and him We had ever known.

We bestowed aforetime on Abraham his rectitude of conduct, and well were We acquainted with him.

We bestowed aforetime on Abraham his rectitude of conduct, and well were We acquainted with him.

Building the needed support for a new social contract will require an appeal to fairness, not just to fiscal rectitude. And a mechanism to authorize the new deal such as a grand coalition actually empowered by elections (not just reluctant support by major parties for technocratic leaders like Italy s Mario Monti) is essential.

And some of us have surrendered, and some of us have deviated. Those who have surrendered sought rectitude

And some of us have surrendered, and some of us have deviated. Those who have surrendered sought rectitude

Then said he who believed, 'My people, follow me, and I will guide you in the way of rectitude.

Then said he who believed, 'My people, follow me, and I will guide you in the way of rectitude.

And he who believed said O my people! follow me, I shall guide you to the path of rectitude,

Guiding Unto rectitude wherefore we have believed therein, and we shall by no means associate with our Lord anyone.

And he who believed said O my people! follow me, I shall guide you to the path of rectitude,

Guiding Unto rectitude wherefore we have believed therein, and we shall by no means associate with our Lord anyone.

It guides to rectitude, so we have believed in it and we will never associate anyone with our Lord.

It guides to rectitude, so we have believed in it and we will never associate anyone with our Lord.

The person endowed with faith said My people, follow me I shall direct you to the Path of Rectitude.

The person endowed with faith said My people, follow me I shall direct you to the Path of Rectitude.

And here was the clincher By committing themselves to fiscal tightening, finance ministers gave themselves scope for some fiscal loosening. Proclaiming fiscal virtue enabled them to practice fiscal vice.

And he who had faith said, O my people! Follow me I will guide you to the way of rectitude.

which guides to rectitude. Hence, we have believed in it and we will never ascribe any partner to our Lord.

And he who had faith said, O my people! Follow me I will guide you to the way of rectitude.

which guides to rectitude. Hence, we have believed in it and we will never ascribe any partner to our Lord.

Fiscal Follies

The one who had believed said, O my people, follow me, and I will guide you to the path of rectitude.

The one who had believed said, O my people, follow me, and I will guide you to the path of rectitude.

PRINCETON In recent years, the European Union or, more accurately, the powerful countries of northern Europe has been subjecting its weaker members to social and political stress tests in the name of fiscal rectitude. As a result, southern Europe and parts of Eastern Europe have become a kind of political laboratory, with experiments producing strikingly varied and increasingly unpredictable outcomes in different countries.

So now Germany s finance ministry, the guardian of fiscal rectitude, is considering measures such as using the European Investment Bank to foster growth, issuing EU project bonds to finance infrastructure investment, and allowing wages in Germany to rise at a faster pace than in the rest of Europe. The imminent indeed, inevitable victory of politics over recalcitrant economics may well be at hand.

And so we know not whether evil is intended for those in the earth, or whether their Lord intends for them rectitude.

And so we know not whether evil is intended for those in the earth, or whether their Lord intends for them rectitude.

Among us some are Muslims and some of us are perverse. Those who submit to Allah it is they who pursue rectitude.

Among us some are Muslims and some of us are perverse. Those who submit to Allah it is they who pursue rectitude.