About Quote by Mario Monti

I think 'austerity' is a much abused word. I prefer to call it 'fiscal discipline' or financial, 'financial competency.'

— Enda Kenny

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply…

— John Lanchester

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

— David Cameron

The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when carried out…

— Charles Dallara

Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.

— Owen Jones

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP.…

— Gerald Celente

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing…

— Meredith Whitney

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

— Jeff Fortenberry

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

— Arnaud Montebourg

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending…

— Mark Zandi

“Arbitrary limits on deficits and debt hinder a nation’s development. Austerity for the sake of balanced budgets or for the sake of preserving fiscal…

— L. Randall Wray Yeva Nersisyan

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt…

— Ray Dalio