Sentence examples for fiscal scolding from inspiring English sources

Illinois budget's basic problem is that its expenses exceed its income -- highlighted by the University of Illinois' budget plight, a plight which may bring another conservative fiscal scolding by a lawmaker angling for Quinn's job -- State Senator Bill Brady (R-Bloomington).

As a famous fiscal scold, he can't adopt the administration's "deficits, schmeficits" approach.

But, with few exceptions, the fiscal scolds have had nothing good to say about the bill.

But the fiscal scolds have been wrong about everything, and it's time to start thinking outside their box.

Does anyone doubt that with Democrats in charge, the promiscuous tax cutters will be reborn yet again as fiscal scolds?

True, the fiscal scolds are still out there, and still getting worshipful treatment from some news organizations.

But like the E.C.B., our fiscal scolds have their story about what's important, and they're sticking to it no matter what the data say.

A second strand of opposition comes from what I think of as the Bah Humbug caucus: fiscal scolds who routinely issue sententious warnings about rising debt.

Normally, we expect the IMF to be a fiscal scold, telling spendthrift governments to make tough choices; the old joke is that IMF stands for It's Mostly Fiscal.

Fix the Debt didn't just help create a climate of crisis with its fearmongering over the deficit; the fiscal scolds actively cheered GOP hostage-taking in 2011, and were still lending support to hostage tactics this time around.

For those who missed it or have forgotten, for several years fiscal scolds in both Europe and the United States leaned heavily on a paper by two highly-respected economists, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, suggesting that government debt has severe negative effects on growth when it exceeds 90percentt of G.D.P. From the beginning, many economists expressed skepticism about this claim.