They get a lecturing from the so-called Socialists of France about prudence, while Varoufakis has been labelled by his German counterpart as "foolishly naive".
But it did eventually and just in time to support the political narrative Osborne has carefully pieced together during his period at the Treasury: Labour profligacy had left the economy in a terrible state; Conservative prudence was repairing the damage; Labour had learned nothing and would resort to its bad old ways if re-elected.
The Times concludes that Sturgeon's offer to Miliband to help him to "end the Tory agenda" is only possible "by ignoring every basic rule of fiscal prudence" and "worse still would be her price — her own agenda — which is the break-up of Great Britain".
This is an eyebrow-raising departure from the club's long-practised policy of financial prudence and a measure of the directors' own desperation to sign a player who could make a telling difference.
But the risks he needed to take were hard to reconcile with those other Swiss virtues of prudence and sobriety virtues on which the banking industry had been founded.
Understandably EBK, the Swiss banking watchdog, has made it clear that prudence and sobriety are to be the watchwords once more.
Their money went to subsidise smoke-belching factories or white-elephant projects.Beyond BasleNow many countries, though far from all, are reining in their interventionist urges and paying more attention to rules that encourage prudence.
But more recently, the chancellor jilted his patron saint of prudence by embarking on a spending spree partially financed by budget deficits.
It is charged with destroying the jobs of ordinary people while enriching the likes of Mr Romney.In this section An economy crumbles The perils of prudence In praise of pessimists Can you hear me now?
So, too, was weaker current-year growth.In this section An economy crumbles The perils of prudence In praise of pessimists Can you hear me now?
Gold, that ancient store of value, still anchored the dollar, at $35 an ounce.Special report Living dangerously Freud, finance and folly The price of prudence Too clever by half Financial WMD?
