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a religious leader who railed against the profligacy of the nation's decadent aristocrats
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Getty Images These extremely high public debt burdens are not due to fiscal profligacy.
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Courtney Lindsay, WIRED, 13 July 2024
Weakness in French sovereign bonds has spilled over to Italy — Europe’s original poster child for fiscal profligacy.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 28 June 2024
But the sound advice offered by Karlin and Wittes—to end extravagant and open-ended commitments to allies in the Middle East in order to reduce reckless behavior and U.S. exposure to its consequences—will never be followed if U.S. profligacy toward Israel is treated as unmentionable.
—Robert Satloff, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Just over a decade ago, there was even something called Tea Party movement, raising the alarm across the country about federal profligacy.
—The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 16 May 2024
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Courtney Lindsay, WIRED, 13 July 2024
Weakness in French sovereign bonds has spilled over to Italy — Europe’s original poster child for fiscal profligacy.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 28 June 2024
But the sound advice offered by Karlin and Wittes—to end extravagant and open-ended commitments to allies in the Middle East in order to reduce reckless behavior and U.S. exposure to its consequences—will never be followed if U.S. profligacy toward Israel is treated as unmentionable.
—Robert Satloff, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Just over a decade ago, there was even something called Tea Party movement, raising the alarm across the country about federal profligacy.
—The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 16 May 2024
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profligacy
noun
prof·li·ga·cy
ˈpräf-li-gə-sē 
: the quality or state of being profligate
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