austerity
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Unlike France and Italy, it has the option of using its interest rate and exchange rate policy to boost demand as an offset to fiscal austerity.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
What bankers appear to be calling for is not stimulus or austerity but balance.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
Hopes that China’s thirst for foreign reds would return were dashed in May, when, as part of a continuing austerity drive, Beijing explicitly banned the consumption of alcohol at Chinese government and Communist Party events.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Elsewhere in Asia, authorities have resorted to a variety of austerity measures.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
From the austerity and tranquility of her medieval world, the penetrating gaze of this legendary Sybil of a holy nun would exorcise the horrors which materialize before our eves in the name of television.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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