The Brazilian initiative could be the source of hope for many poor communities in the South that are yearning for actions to counter unsustainable policies and practices.

On the contrary, they are the normal result when rational investors contemplate the implications of unsustainable policies.

The unsustainable policies of government bailouts, higher taxes and record national debt have had a devastating effect on small businesses.

He cites the combination of militarism, far-flung military bases around the world, unsustainable economic domestic policy, and a complacent voting population as being toxic to American democracy.

Ed Balls is out too because he helped to engineer massively unsustainable economic policies, whilst simultaneously bullying and spinning.

Mr. Clinton stressed that Japan's reluctance to set numerical standards for determining whether Japan was really opening its markets was "an unsustainable policy."

(b) It's a totally unsustainable 'policy' anyway.

All of those countries that have practised unsustainable economic policies for the past few years - including my own - need to realise that change is essential and inevitable.

Indeed, additional efforts should be made to prevent unsustainable budgetary policies from being adopted.

Although fiscal tightening may help contain market pressures if a crisis is triggered by unsustainable fiscal policies, expansionary fiscal policies are typically used.