Sentences with phrase «run a surplus of»

Receiving top marks were changes to tax laws that would allow plans to run surpluses of 25 %, compared with the current level of 10 %.

However, the deficit has been eliminated by the decision to continue to run a surplus of over $ 3 billion per year in the Employment Insurance account until 2017.

The UK is now running a surplus of # 3.8 bn in its current budget - the money borrowed to fund day - to - day spending rather than long - term investment - according to the Office for National Statistics figures.

In either case, if you don't know exactly how many calories you're utilizing for fuel, upkeep, reconstruction, etc., you're better off running a surplus of fat calories than of sugar calories: As you mentioned, calorie surplus will go into the fatty tissue.

Ivan, in this respect your statements, «A person who is overweight because they ate too much fats has a much healthier metabolism than a person who is overweight because they ate too much sugar», and, «you're better off running a surplus of fat calories than of sugar calories», you are comparing fats with sugars.

«A person who is overweight because they ate too much fats [TRANS FATS] has a much healthier metabolism than a person who is overweight because they ate too much sugar», and, «you're better off running a surplus of fat [TRANS FATS] calories than of sugar calories», see http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/in-depth/trans-fat/art-20046114.

We would need to run surpluses of around 8 % of GDP, if I understand the charts on page 5 right.

Not exact matches

Shortly before leaving office, George Osborne abandoned the government's target of running a budget surplus by 2020, blaming the uncertainty surrounding Britain's shock decision to leave the European Union.

That should ensure that borrowing costs will remain low, but in the longer - run trade deficits and shrinking current account surpluses could threaten Japan's ability to finance a debt pile that is twice the size of its economy, the highest ratio in the developed world.

Italy is now running a primary budget surplus with a stock of debt that, according to Ugo Panizza of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, could easily be restructured:

The organization also cites a U.S. Census Bureau finding that U.S. manufacturers ran a $ 50 billion surplus with FTA partner countries, but a $ 820 billion with the rest of the world.

According to Trump's own trade representatives, the answer is no — the U.S. does run a deficit with Canada when it comes to goods, but its surplus in services far outweighs that, leaving an overall surplus of $ 12.5 billion for 2016.

China runs a $ 375 billion trade surplus with the United States and when President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser visited Washington recently, the administration pressed him to come up with a way of reducing that number.

Since the U.S. runs a large surplus in its exports of services to China, $ 33.3 billion in 2015, Beijing would be highly tempted to single out this sector for retaliation as well.

In normal circumstances he believed in a balanced budget and maybe a bit of a surplus for bad times but what he believed was fatal to a nation was running deficit trade imbalances.

Japan, South Korea and Thailand also ran current account surpluses of more 3 % of GDP, which is the limit under currency manipulation standards.

Unlike the Euro - PIIGS who are mired in debt, Brazil is running budget surpluses of about 3 % of GDP.

For much of the nineteenth century, the United States also ran trade deficits and capital account surpluses, but while there were already capital flows driven by investors making independent decisions about where to park their money, roughly 90 percent of the international business done by London banks consisted of trade finance.

U.S. investment exceeds U.S. savings, and the United States runs a trade deficit that is by definition equal to the gap between investment and savings.1 It also runs a capital account surplus equal to the gap because this is the amount of net foreign capital inflow that bridges the gap, and the trade account and the capital account for any country must always balance to zero.

Running a large current account surplus makes China a net seller of goods to the world.

Finally, while many emerging - market economies tend to run current - account surpluses, a growing number of them — including Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, and India — are running deficits.

So we know what the outcome of a successful negotiation would be: Greece would be obliged to run a positive but small «primary surplus,» that is, an excess of revenue over spending not including interest.

Of course a net exporter of capital is by definition a country that is running a current account surpluOf course a net exporter of capital is by definition a country that is running a current account surpluof capital is by definition a country that is running a current account surplus.

This is what I wrote about in the Financial Times yesterday: the U.S. refusal to cooperate with other countries, above all its double standard insisting that other countries must turn their foreign - exchange surpluses over to the U.S. Treasury to promote U.S. financial markets at their expense — and the demand that any country running a trade surplus with America spend the money on U.S. arms — is so abhorrent that other countries are proceeding to create an alternative global financial system of settling trade and balance - of - payments transactions without the United States.

If China runs a capital account deficit and the US a capital account surplus, and these are roughly equal to net purchases by the PBoC and other Chinese government entities of US government bonds and US assets, China will run a current account surplus exactly equal to its capital account deficit.

The United States during this period ran large trade surpluses and capital account deficits as it exported its excess savings to fund its net exports while the growth of its trading partners was constrained by their urgent investment needs.

Running a trade surplus means that a country sells more to foreigners than it buys from them, and there seems to be an implicit belief that exports are what a hard working country produces, and imports are the equivalent of its consumption, so that a trade surplus means that the country earns more than it spends, and the larger the surplus, the more likely the ants in that country are especially productive, thrifty, morally upright, and perhaps fond of sensible clothing.

But would a nation of productive and hard - working people, let's call them ants, normally run trade surpluses?

The 2018 White House Economic Report of the President says the U.S. ran a trade surplus of $ 2.6 billion with Canada on a balance - of - payments basis.

Behind Germany and ahead of some of the oil producers, it runs the largest current account surplus in the world, which means that it is exporting its excess savings in a world that has nowhere to put the money, and so the world must respond either with speculative asset bubbles, unproductive investment, debt - fueled consumption binges or unemployment.

In the 1950s in response to a global «dollar shortage» that had impeded the return of international trade in the late 1940s and 1950s, Germany and other countries implemented policies, including sharply undervalued currencies, aimed at acquiring dollars by running large trade surpluses.

Clearly lots of confusion here, on the flip side Germany thinks all other EU nations can also run trade surpluses and save as much as they do.

In 2017 the US ran a current account surplus (goods, services and corporate profits) of 14 billion US dollars against the EU.

Because capital exports are just the obverse of a current account surplus, this meant that after spending much of the 1990s in deficit, Germany's excess production, caused not by a surge in production but rather a decline in consumption, was resolved by the country's running a current account surplus.

If China runs a current account surplus with the United States, for example, the assumption is that Chinese manufacturers have a fundamental cost advantage over American manufacturers, the result of which is that American households and businesses find it cheaper to import Chinese goods than to buy American goods, and Chinese households and businesses find it cheaper to buy Chinese goods than to import American goods.

Something similar happened a decade later, when East Asian countries, after years of mercantilist trade surpluses, began running large trade deficits.

First, trade imbalances originate in other countries that resolve them directly by exporting excess savings to the United States, and indirectly by exporting excess production in the form of intermediate goods shipped to several countries in a value chain, which in turn run trade surpluses with the United States.

Because the current account ran a $ 22 billion surplus, the sum of the capital account and the central bank account had to run a $ 22 billon deficit, and given that the former was in $ 30 billion surplus, the later must have run a $ 52 billion deficit, that is, central bank reserves rose by $ 52 billion.

If the US were to run a positive current account balance with all of the other 9 largest economies in the world, the chance of the US running large, persistent current account deficits with the entire world would be tiny cuz that'd assume huge surpluses by countries that account for ~ 1 / 3rd of world GDP.

The United States» bilateral deficit with Thailand is just under the $ 20 billion threshold, and the U.S. runs a bilateral surplus with Singapore (even with Singapore's massive global surplus) thanks in part to large exports of fuel oil.

China ran huge trade surpluses even before then, when it was the Chinese central bank that exported capital as it accumulated one of history's largest hoards of central bank reserves in its efforts to keep down the value of the renminbi.

Canada's trade surplus with the U.S. stands out because it runs a deficit with the rest of the world.

Canada's surplus in energy was $ 16.2 billion in the second quarter, even as it ran a goods - trade deficit of $ 5.2 billion.

Despite months of poor economic data, the Harper government says it remains confident it will run a surplus this year.

First, as the Government has been running budget surpluses, the stock of CGS outstanding has fallen.

Although India runs a merchandise trade deficit (2 1/2 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), it has a modest surplus on the current account (0.8 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), owing to sizeable inward current transfers and a surplus for net services.

Because of the heavy borrowing that led to Greece's financial crisis, running a budget surplus was one of the conditions of the European rescue program in 2010.

So if I run into a surplus sometime, I don't think of something to buy with it, I think, «OK, I better get rid of this money and put it to work again.»

So these are all things plaguing Europe and look if the German citizens acquiesce and say: OK we agree to a transfer union, we will run in a massive trade surplus of the current account surpluses and we're willing to transfer money to Italy to help them.

This rise partly reversed earlier declines, which had reflected a number of factors: the expected negative impact of the Asian situation on the local economy, associated concerns about the possibility of global deflation, and the projected fall in the stock of bonds on issue reflecting the expected run of Budget surpluses and the proposed sale of the remainder of Telstra.