You may need to make a few adjustments to your plans to prepare for this new age of austerity, but for most people, they needn't be drastic. (moneysense.ca)
But their agenda is to make the economic polarization between creditors and debtors irreversible, ushering in a Dark Age of austerity and deepening debt peonage in which wages, profits and property rents are earmarked to pay interest — on loans that can't be paid in a shrinking economy. (michael-hudson.com)
Though he did not argue in favour of any particular reform Lord Thomas did stress that in the current age of austerity «These positions need careful consideration. (justis.com)