But Prince Abdullah has bluntly declared that all Saudis will have to tighten their belts.
It is too much to ask people to tighten their belts twice, as it were, figuratively and literally.
While some firms are expanding, the downturn in the UK has prompted many others to tighten their belts.
The market would punish economies where governments or households borrow recklessly with higher bond yields, prompting them to tighten their belts.
If future returns are lower, consumers will need to tighten their belts.
It might discourage governments from loosening their belts in good times, as well as encouraging them to tighten their belts in bad times.
His comments come as health boards in Wales, which manage NHS services, say that just like councils they also have to tighten their belts.
Not surprisingly, governments are more likely to tighten their belts when budget deficits and interest rates are high at times, in other words, precisely unlike these.
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Zambians may have to tighten their belts, no matter who wins.
That is when governments must act swiftly to tighten their belts.
Government reports showing gains in both the Producer and Consumer Price indices showed that energy and food costs are causing many consumers to tighten their belts this year.
Consumer spending in South Korea rose by 6.5% in the year to the fourth quarter, but Hong Kong's consumers continue to tighten their belts thanks to deflation and rising unemployment.
Smaller private companies have continued to tighten their belts.
As a result, many European wineries and their U.S. importers (so far, at least) have chosen to tighten their belts rather than take big price increases to compensate for the sagging dollar.
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Mr Kan was hobbled when Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, and other American officials who had been preaching to Asian governments about the need to tighten their belts told the Japanese visitors to throw public money at their banking problem.
And he is in the process of identifying a lot of different ways that we can reorganize government to make it work better, leaner and more efficiently for the American people, because we are in times where everybody has got to tighten their belts and do things in the most effective and efficient way.
While with income taxes we pay regardless, if a consumption tax were implemented Americans could put the federal government on a diet at the same time that economic uncertainty is forcing them to tighten their own belts.
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Rather, it's that there aren't as many desperately poor people in the world as there used to be who tighten their belts when prices go up.
And they need to act responsibly, tighten their belts, live within their means, just as we in Washington, the executive branch and Congress need to do with our federal situation.
If inflation really does spike, financial markets would fall apart: already-expensive equities would have to compete with higher interest rates and worries that America's over-stretched consumers would have to tighten their (substantial) belts.
Banks continue to tighten credit, and their own belts Citigroup has even restricted colour photocopying.
In 1997, the then prime minister, Romano Prodi, made his compatriots tighten their belts again, to get Italy into the first batch of countries adopting the euro.
But he has already made clear that, like families around the country who are making tough decisions about their family budget, that we need to tighten our belts where we can, but we have to do that in order to preserve the ability to invest in the future.
Americans are making hard choices in their budgets, and we've got to tighten our belts in Washington, as well.
But if the thrifty swing state of Iowa is anything to go by, those same voters like the idea of other people footing the bill, long before they tighten their own belts.
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