Granted, he's been called "unhinged," "nonsensical," and "a cranky old man," after arguing in the Times that the current bull market is a huge bubble, and that America's economic woes stem from the Federal Reserve's profligacy and from F.D.R.'s taking us off the gold standard.
Profligacy ranged from colossal compensation packages for dismissed managers to a monthly sum spent on the goldfish in the chairman's office.
But if he moves too fast from profligacy to austerity, a backlash could follow in Congress and on the streets.
A switch from 4-3-3 4-3-3 4-3-3oded toe home team's defiance and, despite Nigel Martyn's heroics and Hernán Crespo's comic profligacy, Lampard emerged from the anonymity of his own display to convert classily.
And that is what is going on with the euro, where a stress on demanding austerity has eclipsed the need to boost confidence.Germany, the European Central Bank (ECB) and many others diagnose today's mess as stemming primarily from profligacy on the periphery.
Van Persie was singled out for everything from profligacy in front of the goal to taking a phone call on the field at the final whistle (Robbie Mustoe, in the ESPN commentary booth, clucked disapprovingly and wondered loud and often whether Klaas-Jan Huntelaar would have done better. When the Schalke striker came on, he didn't).
A rightwing Congress was never going to allow it and as far as anyone knows it was never formally proposed, leaving Bernanke to steer a course between rightwing accusations of profligacy and charges from the Keynesian left that his timidity restricted growth and depressed the jobs market.
The hosts' profligacy was evident from the outset, when they had been gifted an opportunity when Forde failed to clear, but James McClean fired into the side-netting.
Their profligacy also stems from the way they exist in a variety of forms, depending on the basicity of the conditions, as singly, doubly or triply protonated species as appropriate, in addition to their completely deprotonated forms.
From obsession in Iraq to inattention in New Orleans, from budget-busting profligacy to the constriction of civil liberties, from the coarse cronyism of Halliburton to the greasy skid marks left by his political henchmen, the president has proved to be a veritable Walt Whitman of self-contradiction and a Wile E Coyote of catastrophe.
