In some countries, lower military expenditures and interest rates has helped to improve a weak fiscal position.

Unfortunately, women s political position is weak.

Huge tax cuts and rising military spending have fueled an enormous rise in imports, and therefore a yawning trade deficit now accompanies America s weak fiscal position.

His position in the nationalist opposition was weak.

Heavy reliance on what turns out to be disputed evidence now leaves the fiscal hawks in a weak position, to say the least, vis à vis their opponents.

In other words, America s fiscal problems explain its extremely weak economic recovery.

But, with the exception of China, fiscal positions around the world are currently weak.

To judge China s economic dynamism, the key indicator is its fiscal position. When, and only when, China s fiscal position is worsening rapidly will its economy suffer a hard landing.

China s strong fiscal position today gives it a window of opportunity.

France and Germany, by contrast, have an inherently strong fiscal position.

The current election campaign is accordingly centered on France s fiscal position.

Countercyclical fiscal policy had been largely discredited because of the delays involved in implementing fiscal changes and households weak response to temporary tax cuts.

Moreover, China s fiscal position is one of the best in the world.

In the United States, where markets, the judiciary, and regulation are highly developed, the imperative is not institutional reform, but policy reform addressing the weak fiscal position, income and wealth inequities, unemployment, health care, and deteriorating physical infrastructure.

As its economy slows, the improvement in its fiscal position may be minimal.

Third, China s financial stability and fiscal position may deteriorate in the medium term.

At the same time, it spares an already weak economy damaging fiscal contraction in the short run.

As the government s fiscal position has steadily weakened, the jobs have become far scarcer.

It was hard work engineering a five trillion dollar deterioration in America s fiscal position.

But politics, not economics, explains why the Fed chairman changed his tune about America s weak external position.

In turn, this risks weakening both the government s fiscal position and the economy s external account.

Across the Atlantic, America s fiscal crisis and weak economic growth will force it to reduce its global military commitments.

Counsel argues that the State party's position also reflects weak confidence in the integrity of the Egyptian guarantees.

On the supply side, permanently lower output makes fiscal adjustment even more compulsory but, on the demand side, a weak private economy lacks the resilience needed to weather fiscal retrenchment.

Despite the parlous fiscal position, for now the market for Japanese government bonds (JGBs) remains stable.

So grim has Japan s fiscal position become that bond issuance has exceeded tax revenue since 2009.

Thus, Latvia today enjoys a sustainable fiscal position, with output close to its potential and growing.

None of this would resolve Europe s fundamental problems, namely weak fiscal positions, poorly functioning financial sectors, and lack of competitiveness.

Confidence is fragile in an environment characterized by ongoing deleveraging, macro uncertainties, weak labor market growth, and a fiscal drag.

In the US, the uneven and weak recovery has been sustained by extraordinarily expansive monetary policies and ongoing large fiscal deficits.

Putin might also argue that Russia s fiscal position is far stronger that of the other G8 members.

Most countries in post conflict situations suffer from weak fiscal positions, rendering the provision of internally financed subsidies impractical in most cases.

But Western nations are in a weak position to make this response, because they inflict so much unnecessary suffering on animals.

Everyone who worries about America s weak fiscal position puts Social Security s relatively small funding imbalance far down the list of priorities. The highest priority problem is the overall budget s medium run outlook, as the Bush tax cuts have opened Reagan size deficits that threaten to cripple US economic growth.

Finally, economically and politically, Syria is in a weak position, and its interests are by no means congruent with those of Iran.

But austerity undermines growth, worsening the government s fiscal position, or at least yielding less improvement than austerity s advocates promise.

Spain was not in an enviable position. The rapid deterioration of fiscal position after the crisis made any substantial countercyclical response impossible, while regulatory constraints limited the economy s structural flexibility.

Despite the weakness of Japan s fiscal position, the market for Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) remains stable, at least for now.

While the right medicine needed to avoid fiscal train wrecks is well known, the main constraint to fiscal consolidation and discipline is that weak governments around the world lack the political power and willingness to implement austerity.

It ardently championed global fiscal stimulus on the order of 2 of world GNP a position that is all the more remarkable in view of its traditional conservatism on all fiscal matters.

Unrestricted capital flows could indeed spell disaster for an economy that has dysfunctional financial markets, high levels of corruption, and weak monetary and fiscal policies.

In Europe, many governments, having embarked on the path of fiscal consolidation while their economies were still weak, are now struggling with the growth consequences.

China s government is now attempting fiscal decentralization to revitalize the public finance position, while adopting financial decentralization to maintain currency stability.

With a smaller debt burden and interest payments, Egypt s fiscal position would improve significantly, and threats to economic growth would recede.

In many countries, their fiscal position has collapsed under the combined weight of mismanagement and the global economic and financial crisis.