Remember the U. S. fiscal outlook was pretty good in 2000 but as soon as Republicans gained control of the White House they squandered the surplus on tax cuts and unfunded wars.

不要忘记，2000年的时候，美国的财政前景非常好，然而共和党一控制白宫，他们就通过减税，发动资金没有着落的战争而挥霍了财政盈余。

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That is partly because of Quebec’s good fortune in generating so much hydroelectricity that it exports its surplus to Ontario and to north-eastern United States.

其部分原因在于，魁北克得天独后地可以利用水力发大量的电，其供电量大到在满足其自身需求之后还有剩余，可以向安大略省以及美国东北部出口。

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Consumer surplus is the value to a consumer of consumption of a good, minus the price paid.

消费者剩余指的是消费者购买一件商品所得到价值，减去购买这件商品的费用。

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If they had been doing what good Keynesian policy demanded of them then, paying down the debt, running a budget surplus instead of the 3-4% deficit they were running, then we could be good Keynesians now and could borrow our way out of the current slump and do some fiscal stimulus.

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