It may have to be bailed out by its neighbouring Gulf states, whose more prudent attractions Dubai tried to outshine; indeed, the process has already begun.
For the Swiss, whose usually prudent and discreet banks are as much of an international symbol of the nation as its neutrality, the Matterhorn or Swiss Army knives, the idea of the government having to shore up the financial system is a humiliating comedown.
This tiered approach worked well for the now restricted hexachlorophene, whose allowable and prudent applications continue to this date, as a preservative at concentrations of up to 0.1% by weight.
Might Mr Brown be going the same way?For a man whose favourite words are "prudent" and "cautious", Mr Brown is taking some big risks.
The ideal average prudent man, whose equivalent the jury is taken to be in many cases, and whose culpability or innocence is the supposed test, is a constant, and his conduct under given circumstances is theoretically always the same.
By cutting the cash position that Mr. Allmon otherwise was recommending, and then by using margin, you could have built a leveraged Growth Stock Outlook portfolio whose risk matched the Prudent Speculator's.
Within Europe, as Germans never cease to point out, investors are not worried about Mrs Merkel's prudent government, whose predecessor restructured the economy painfully ten years ago; the problem is a loss of confidence in less well-run, unreformed countries.But do not get too sympathetic.
But Roy DeMeo was also abstemious, devoted to his wife and children, and a prudent businessman whose many legitimate enterprises camouflaged his criminal ones; his son's account of this complex, compartmentalized life is a rich stew of anthropological detail, confusion, and shame.
Henry was overall a prudent monarch, whose greatest wisdom was to learn from the folly and examples of other European monarchs.
I was visiting an assisted living facility recently with my sister, whose disability made that a prudent choice, when the marketing manager handed us a brochure.
