Keepin' it thrifty.

Thrifty China, Spendthrift America

The more reason to be thrifty with them.

A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class.

As consumers stopped buying, real (inflation adjusted) interest rates should have fallen to encourage thrifty households to spend.

Private savings, as a rule, can pay the costs of treatment only for the thrifty and the well off.

By increasing inflation, the Fed would turn real interest rates seriously negative, thereby coercing thrifty households into spending instead of saving.

And now, Buiter and Sibert argue convincingly, the ECB is giving the market less scope to reward the thrifty and penalize the profligate than it should.

(77) Advising concerning thrifty, efficient energy use, provided by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Verbraucherverbände (AgV) consumer associations apos working group, on commission to the Federal Ministry of Economics

Brister's Hill, but was long since killed out by pitch pines, excepting a few stumps, whose old roots furnish still the wild stocks of many a thrifty village tree.

I think we're going to have to exercise some muscles we either don't have or that have atrophied or something, a civic muscle, a thrifty muscle, a generous muscle.

Genetics The thrifty gene hypothesis (also called the famine hypothesis) states that in some populations the body would be more efficient at retaining fat in times of plenty, thereby endowing greater resistance to starvation in times of food scarcity.