Citations:defaultist

English citations of defaultist

Noun: "One who believes a government should default on its debts"

• 1933, The New Statesman and Nation‎^[1], volume 6, page 41:

  It is the balancing of the budget which has upset Argentine politics. […] To what extent the opposition has been strengthened or weakened by the light-hearted treatment tof debt contracts popularised by the great American Republic it is hard to say, but it is significant that inflation in the Rooseveltian manner is among the demands of the defaultists.