"The Medicare surplus is gone, the Social Security surplus is almost all gone, " Conrad said.
That is, a little bit too much oil gets people to shouting, "Surplus, surplus!"
We had a surplus in 2000 -- we had a surplus a decade ago.
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Over time, however, a stronger real cuts into the trade surplus, which is still struggling to remain a surplus.
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To paraphrase John Stuart Mill, we trade products for products, the surplus of our labor for the surplus of others.
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China's trade surplus with America remains large and controversial, but its current-account surplus with the rest of the world is dying out.
Next year it aims to achieve a primary surplus - ie a budget surplus, excluding the costs it pays to service its debts.
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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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).
Central to Mr Bush's short-term problem is what the disappearing surplus means for the social security surplus, the funds set aside for future Social Security, or pension, payments.
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.
In other words, haggling not only determines how the surplus from trade is divided, it also reduces the surplus once the cost of the haggling is taken into account.
This approach called symmetric adjustment, because surplus countries increase domestic spending as deficit countries curb theirs has been an elusive ambition for decades and has always foundered on resistance from the surplus countries.
So Mr Clinton, who claims to want a budget surplus in order to help Social Security, is actually using the Social Security surplus in order to help his budget look fine.
Companies often have surplus cash and banks surplus deposits.
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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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The production of valuable goods and services is maximized with strong property rights when little is wasted in efforts to seize the surplus of others or to prevent others from seizing our surplus.
And I think the economy, then, the war hinges on the economy since so much of our surplus - so much of our money, which is not so surplus is going to the war.
Li Daokui of Tsinghua University in Beijing says that China's trade surplus might turn negative within two years, though the bilateral surplus with America will no doubt persist, to the continued annoyance of rustbelt senators.
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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.
But since next year's overall surplus is expected to be mostly, if not entirely, accounted for by the Social Security surplus, it also means tax cuts later rather than sooner which is not what the Republican faithful really want.
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"Their economic policy, largely, was to take the proposals made during the campaign when there was a prospective very large surplus and those policies continued in place, irrespective of what was happening to the surplus ... it was wrong, " Greenspan said.
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.
The most significant changes, of course, involve Fannie and Freddie, which just five months ago were still subject to 30% capital surplus requirements, a punishment of sorts for their accounting scandals earlier in the decade. (Those surplus limits were lowered to 20% in March in order to marshal the companies' aid in dealing with the mortgage crisis).
Both surplus and deficit countries would benefit if there was a more balanced program in which the surplus countries were focused on internal demand, there was a more market-based approach to the currencies, and the deficit countries thereby were able to export more -- and that would also make it easier for them to deal with their unemployment issues.
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We propose to use the surplus to buy a box of Crackerjacks for the first 3 million fans.
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Farmers also worry about uncertain market demand, pointing to the big surplus that developed in 2001.
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It's just word-of-mouth, '' said Lisa Hardin, surplus property program specialist for the Texas Facilities Commission.
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