Today's August public finance numbers are a case in point, with another record amount of borrowing for that month.
Mr Brown seems to be fighting the last war: fear-mongering claims about spending cuts which worked in 2001 and 2005, when money was cascading into the Treasury and voters viewed the Tories as malign, are less persuasive at a time of record borrowing and sunnily rebranded opponents.
The one piece of good news is that the overall fiscal picture has improved of late because of record-low borrowing costs, the sequester, and a surge in revenues over the past six months due to higher tax rates (and their anticipation last year).
On Tuesday, the cost of government borrowing spiked at a new record of 6.76% after the vote, around the 7% threshold at which Portugal and Ireland were forced to accept bailouts.
The government's commitment to rein in public borrowing has helped us avoid all the financial market tumult of Greece, Italy and the rest - but that has perhaps allowed our real economy to falter that much earlier, while our government's cost of borrowing has fallen to a record low.
The fallout from Greece's financial difficulties had raised the cost of Ireland's borrowing to a record 3 percentage points over the German benchmark rate.
The Fed is expected to keep borrowing costs at record low levels despite signs of a strengthening economy.
He pointed to "record low interest rates" and a lower cost of government borrowing as a sign that the coalition was doing the right thing, and accused Labour of wanting "even more government borrowing" and of having "no credible response" to economic difficulties.
In late July of 2012, borrowing costs for Spain and Italy had reached record heights, while the German Constitutional Court was weighing the constitutionality of the European Stability Mechanism under German law.
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The cost of borrowing for Italy's government has reached a new eurozone record of 6.29% in its latest bond auction.
The gap between Spanish and German long-term borrowing rates also reached a record high, as did the cost of insuring against a Spanish sovereign default.
Sekerbank had hoped to be the latest Turkish lender to benefit from record-low borrowing costs by seeking to sell the bond at a yield of just above 5%.
Asian companies are taking advantage of the renewed enthusiasm from the U.S., borrowing at record low rates.
Start out by borrowing small amounts of money for your businesses to establish a track record, said Arora.
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With the Bank of England's Bank rate still at a record low of just 0.5%, the expectation is that the official cost of borrowing can only go up when it is next changed.
Germany's borrowing costs fell to fresh record lows at an auction Wednesday as the prospect of new elections in Greece and the cash-strapped country's possible exit from the euro zone sparked an investor flight to safety.
Parts of southern Europe are in depression and must pay high interest rates, while Germany enjoys record low borrowing costs.
Right at the opening, there was a spike in the implicit interest cost to Italy of borrowing for two years (the yield on two-year bonds) to a euro-era record of around 8% - and then it fell back to 7.5% or so, which is where it was on Friday (which is still high).
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