That the Labour, Lib Dem and Tory paths to public-finance redemption are - as you would expect - very different and reflect their respective traditions.
But if business leaders believe that austerity is the sine qua non of public finance redemption, they won't invest if they fear the public sector is being too profligate - and that would keep productivity performance pretty lacklustre.
Even if austerity has ensured that firms are not worried about future tax hikes to finance government debt redemptions, it has not made firms positive enough to start investing more.
Channels like Iqraa, Al-Resala or Majd TV — most of them financed by Saudi conservatives — tend to feature Koranic reading, wagging fingers, overlong beards and men speaking in contemptuous tones about sin, redemption and the dangers of the West.
Lisbon intends to sell as much as 20 billion euros, or about $26 billion, in bonds this year to finance its deficit and redemptions of maturing bonds.
By the end of 2012, the euro zone and the I.M.F. will have lent Greece another 32 billion euros to finance its deficit and bond redemptions.
For the United States, the request is an opportunity of sorts for national redemption, given its role in financing the "dirty wars" from the 1960s to the 1980s throughout Latin America.
Moreover, an amicable agreement is less likely, because there are no other assets or sources of financing available for redemption due to the debtor's bankruptcy.
Childlike Wanda Cooper, a survivor of suicides and alcoholics, abashedly trades sex for money to finance her painkiller habit, until, inspired by a "Donahue" episode, she glimpses her redemption: she will bear a child for an infertile couple.
