We had a surplus in 2000 -- we had a surplus a decade ago.
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And while other states are floundering in the current economy, Alaska is sitting on a surplus, a surplus which is largely related to the increase in oil company revenue.
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.
The finance minister appeared cautiously optimistic over Greece's economic recovery, saying the government's aim was to achieve a primary budget surplus a surplus without taking into account interest payments on outstanding debt by the end of this year.
"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.
This is what I hear when someone claims President Bush threw away a surplus of a few billion dollars.
That said, the optimist has us believing that a surplus is a positive for the region because exports are dominating.
Next year it aims to achieve a primary surplus - ie a budget surplus, excluding the costs it pays to service its debts.
Michigan has a surplus (a non-profit word for profit) that exceeds the entire Florida Gulf Coast budget, subject to the way Michigan subsidizes its other sports programs.
As long as politicians insist that our trade account is a scoreboard and that a surplus is a trade policy success metric, Americans will continue to be skeptical about trade.
And the strong economy, with its expanded flow of taxes, seems likely to produce a budget surplus yes, a surplus for the next few years (see article).
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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And meanwhile, a failure to pay for two wars and two tax cuts for the wealthy helped turn a record surplus into a record deficit.
These same Republicans turned a record surplus into a record deficit.
Because Republicans knew how to stick together and put some of their bruised egos aside (although it would have helped them stand up to the president when he turned a federal surplus into a deficit).
During this past decade, profligate spending in Washington, tax cuts for multi-millionaires and billionaires, the cost of two wars, and the recession turned a record surplus into a yawning deficit, and that left us with a big pile of IOUs.
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"These policies of cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans, of stripping away regulations that protect consumers, running up a record surplus to a record deficit -- those policies finally culminated in the worst financial crisis we've had since the Great Depression, " he said.
Walker argues that his reforms are working, pointing to a projected budget surplus and a modest uptick in jobs since he took office last year.
But by cuddling up to industry lobbies and failing to keep any control on spending (and not just of the defence sort), the president has turned a huge budget surplus into a large deficit.
Despite a long history as a huge exporter of commodities, Indonesia has flipped from having a trade account surplus to a deficit in recent months, and last quarter recorded its biggest ever current-account deficit.
When my husband left office, because we had a balanced budget and a surplus, there was a plan in place to extend the solvency of Social Security until 2055.
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And unlike America, Germany is a supplier of global credit: its current-account surplus was a hefty 7.7% of GDP last year, according to the OECD.
Either they manage the volatility as best they can - look to Russia as a country doing so very badly - or they stack up the surplus in a trust fund.
Over time, however, a stronger real cuts into the trade surplus, which is still struggling to remain a surplus.
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In October, the kingdom posted a healthy trade surplus, despite a 15.8% slump in exports.
There is not a surplus of talent from which a coach has to make the right choices.
But Emanuel said the White House believes that no decisions about what to do with the surplus should be made until a surplus actually materializes.
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