Republican candidates for the presidency echo the arguments of Mr Morgenthau, claiming that deficit-financed stimulus spending has done little but add to the obligations of future taxpayers.
In denominational settings, the arguments against fossil fuel divestment echo the arguments against divesting from South Africa at the height of Apartheid: "You will hurt the people who are most vulnerable".
To echo the arguments of military commanders who were against things like racially integrating the military and letting gays serve openly, the armed forces should not be a laboratory for social experimentation.
Echoing the argument that Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's controversial finance minister, has been making for months, the I.M.F.
Two senior Senate Republicans likewise gave endorsements, echoing the argument of Obama transition officials that Mr. Geithner's failures were innocent mistakes or technicalities.
He says Mr. Clinton was far too cozy with China's leaders, echoing the argument that Mr. Clinton made about Mr. Bush's father in 1992.
And even now, after the crash, with all the temptation to point figures, it is awfully hard to find a mortgage executive who echoes the argument of the Republican candidates.
The new Investment Company Institute study echoes the argument that the fees paid by mutual funds cover a broader assortment of services than those paid by pension funds and that their fees cannot therefore be fairly compared.
Chancellor Angela Merkel told business leaders in Germany that Britain would not keep full access to the single market alongside restrictions to free movement, echoing the argument made by the French president, François Hollande.
This echoes the argument set out in a paper by Joseph Massad of Columbia University, who adopts a nationalist line in claiming that gay rights in the Middle East are a "missionary" project orchestrated by the west.
