"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.
That's odd, given that oil supplies are plentiful and there's a surplus of gasoline in the U.S., Ronn says.
With China's bilateral trade surplus at a record high even as America's economy slumps, Congress will not take kindly to Beijing's bolstering of its exporters.
With growth in the euro-zone roughly on a par with the 3-3.5% forecast for the United States, and with the euro-zone's trade surplus a stark contrast to the Americans' deficit, the euro is due for a correction.
Likewise, a surplus in U.S. foreign trade would sow the seeds of a reversal in the future.
"There's a big surplus of beef calves in northern areas where the climate is good and pastures are rich, " he said.
Some aggrieved group begins to complain: gas prices are too high, beef prices too low, liability insurance too burdensome, there's a salmon surplus driving coho prices down.
China's trade surplus with America now rivals Japan's in size, a remarkable achievement given its primitive economy.
Yet the fund also expects the rest of the world combined to run a rising surplus (this includes a big drop in America's deficit).
Without the China commerce, Taiwan's substantial trade surplus would become a deficit.
The conclusions drawn from such an analysis are to transfer the surplus cash from a conglomerate's cash cows to the stars and the question marks, and to close down or sell off the dogs.
In the end, though, the movie's flaws don't matter all that much, for "Hitch" is a rare studio film that's bursting with a surfeit of ambition, a surplus of good ideas.
Mr Manuel sees his fiscal surplus as the government's contribution to a national saving effort.
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Average donor dependency--the share of a nonprofit's surplus coming from contributions as opposed to sale of goods or investment performance--rose sharply from 75% to 94% this year.
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The real change came in donor dependency, which measures the share of a nonprofit's surplus coming from contributions as opposed to sale of goods or services or investment performance.
When 72 percent say the budget surplus should first be used to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, it's impossible to make a case for giving all the surplus away in a giant, unnecessary, unwanted, across-the-board tax cut.
For example, Bill Clinton left office having presided over creating 22.2 million jobs and leaving the U.S. with a record budget surplus.
We figure this by subtracting a charity's annual surplus (excess of revenue over expenses) from public donations, then dividing this figure by the public donations.
Early June will see the publication of Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, and Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.
In 2001 the deficit was equivalent to 0.5% of global GDP, but by next year the IMF's forecasts imply that the surplus could hit a record 0.8% of GDP (see left-hand chart).
And, technology and innovation, the work of our most talented people, underpin the U.S. standard of living: technology-based products and services create a big export surplus and enable the strong productivity growth of the U.S. economy.
The cautious Mr Costello's obsession with running a constant budget surplus is seen as a wasted opportunity.
Friends of Arundells said Peter Batey's plan could turn "deficit to surplus in a relatively short period of time".
IMF, in an extraordinary fit of kindness, has accepted Argentina's commitment to a 3% primary surplus (ie, before interest payments) for 2004.
China's bilateral trade surplus with America has long been a lightning rod in Congress, and with unemployment up the protectionist pressure is sure to rise.
Brazil's is committed to a primary fiscal surplus (ie, before debt payments) of 3.8% of GDP in order to continue to lighten its debt burden.
Clinton will also talk with Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro about Japan's growing trade surplus, which is being fueled by a weakened yen and exacerbated by renewed recession.
The country manages to produce a rice surplus, but the regime's travel restrictions, its rampant corruption and the lack of decent roads mean that many still go hungry.
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