The Bush tax cuts were temporary and should fully expire unless we have a surplus.
The trade deficit reflects the fact that Wakandans have a surplus of American currency.
You want to convince your potential employer that you have a surplus of benefits before revealing your risks.
Best of all, instead of a debt burden of 1.483 trillion Euros, Greece will have a surplus of 306 billion Euros by 2030!
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One would think a country of 1.4 billion people would have a surplus of workers, but hiring in China is getting tougher than ever.
Most of them have a surplus of clever ideas about what to do with the money (this is a world of task-forces and initiatives, of research agendas and development projects).
They treat capital expenditures, like buildings and long-term assets, the same way they treat operational expenditures, so it's really impossible to tell if we have a surplus or deficit or what.
We now have a surplus of everything anyone could possibly want, all made by those machines and all we humans have to do is use what we want when we wish to.
Contrary to what the study seems to suggest, my understanding is that New York City currently has a surplus of electric power capacity and will continue to have a surplus for several years.
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But I also voiced to President Obama Brazil's concern regarding the monetary expansion policies that ultimately mean that countries that have a surplus be able to strike a balance in those economic monetary expansion policies through fiscal policies that are ultimately based on expanding investments.
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The next surprise is that, after years of profligacy, the euro area as a whole will have a budget surplus this year for the first time in at least half a century.
So, when do we think that Greece is going to have a primary surplus?
We have a trade surplus selling shares in our companies, even though politicians rarely use that figure when talking about trade.
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If policies remain unchanged, then even as the windfall revenues drop out next year, the euro area will still have a small surplus.
Oh yes, and despite a financial crisis that has cost the government around 20% of GDP, Iceland is expected to have a budget surplus by by 2013.
In the past we have argued that colleges have produced a surplus of college graduates (at least in terms of the labor market demand for workers with a college education).
High oil prices and a big devaluation in 1998 have generated a huge trade surplus.
This sounds odd, since it is not fully convertible and Myanmar expects soon to have a large trade surplus.
Yet net exports have gone from a modest surplus to record deficits over the same time period.
The current U.S. astronaut aboard Mir, Mike Foale, has put on a happy face despite the setbacks, but CNN has been told a lack of oxygen and a surplus of carbon dioxide may have contributed to a series of onboard mistakes which threatened the health of the station and could have killed the crew.
By all rights, a responsible President would have made the necessary adjustments once the surplus turned into a deficit.
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If all of the above was implemented and we focused on producing a 500 Billion dollar annual surplus to be applied to debt reduction we might have a chance.
High commodity prices have given Brazil a large current-account surplus for the past few years.
If you had inherited a surplus, you would have thought that maybe, you know, we'll maintain that.
In our case the euro 17 have a lot more to lose than we do, as they run a large surplus with us.
At that point, claim the EU's and IMF's economists, Greece will have returned to growth and reached a primary budget surplus (ie, it will raise more revenue than it spends, before interest).
Matthew Gray of Jefferies, an investment bank, reckons that by 2020 the ETS will have an accumulated surplus of 845m permits, against a planned cap that year of 1.8 billion permits.
"There is a surplus not because of the genius of goverment, there's a surplus because the taxes on the people who work for a living are the highest they have been as a percentange since World War II, " Bush told a rally at a baseball field in Blue Ash, a suburb of Cincinnati.
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