Sentences with phrase «to run a surplus»

The government runs a surplus when its revenues exceed its expenditures.

The city generally runs a surplus, unlike some cities, and has significant cash and investments on hand.

He said in a statement that the state ran a surplus for each of the past four years and made an effort to put some of that money aside.

Whereas I was constantly running a deficit before, I was finally running a surplus.

The city generally runs a surplus, unlike some cities, and has significant cash and investments on hand.

In 2017, the Erie County Clerk's Office ran a surplus budget of $ 772,661.

However, even when the federal government ran surpluses in the late 1990s, our current account deficit continued to increase.

The IMF added that if growth was lower than expected or if the Greek government failed to meet targets for running a surplus on its budget excluding interest payments, there would be «significant increases in debt and gross financing needs».

Suppose South Korea runs a surplus with Brazil.

Kearns argued that the office ran a surplus budget of $ 772,661 last year, and is the actually only office that creates surplus revenue for Erie County.

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.

The Clinton administration showed that there is a virtuous cycle in budget matters with benefits for running a surplus when not in recession.

And that's a long time if ever, frankly, because the average state government isn't running a surplus and making a profit off of taxes.»

At the height of the economic implosion in 2009 and 2010, Thunderbird was running annual budget surpluses, but Penley said that due to the fluctuating financial nature of a private institution that relies on tuition, gifts, and grants, Thunderbird is no longer running a surplus.

Osborne doesn't care that he almost certainly won't be running a surplus by 2020.

So we should commit, alongside running a surplus and capping welfare, to grow our capital spending at least in line with our national income».

The debate is more about how much you can slow it down, and how quickly you can turn our economy around and start running surpluses, and where you are going to make cuts or give tax breaks in order to make that happen.

so to acheived that debt reduction a Labour Governemnt will have to run a surplus eevry yeear..

The shadow chancellor could also propose a new fiscal rule to run surpluses at a time of economic growth and to achieve a budget surplus by the end of the first Parliament.

They have had very brief periods of trade deficits (1979 to 1980, and a few months in 2009) but otherwise run a surplus.

For most of its existence the social security trust fund ran a surplus (that ended in March of 2011 when the first boomers started to retire.

Treasury officials said the surplus commitment represented a break with the past since the government had run a surplus in only seven of the last 50 years and three of the last 20.

His commitment to run a surplus on capital and current spending in the next parliament was challenged by Labour, who said Osborne had failed to meet his two fiscal targets in this parliament.

Then Mexico can run surpluses with third countries as could the U.S..

New York State United Teachers Vice President Andy Pallotta points out that the state is now running a surplus.

«What the President is asking for is that he should have come to meet a government that is running a surplus budget and building buffers of money for him to then use and spend and I am saying that would be almost irrational to consider a country such as Ghana... to have surplus money sitting there for Nana Addo Danquah Akufo - Addo to now come and be sleeping at the Flagstaff House and be spending money because the money is available.»

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.

Yes, the budget was balanced, and indeed we were running a surplus.

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

On the other hand, Canada's statisticians say it's Canada that runs the surplus — although Canada also counts goods passing through, such as Chinese imports that are then exported to the U.S., as its own exports.

I think the last time we ran a surplus was 1975..

The constraints imposed by the euro, which ensured massive German capital exports to the rest of Europe, allowed Germany to run this surplus, while its European neighbors, no longer in control of monetary policy and unable to prevent German capital imports which forced up asset and consumer prices, were forced to run the obverse deficits.

Countries with trade surpluses have savings rates that exceed domestic investment rates mainly because ordinary households in these countries retain too small a share of their country's GDP — relative to their governments, businesses, or the wealthy — to consume a high share of total GDP.1 This is why these countries must run surpluses.

Or print money but wanted to run a surplus?

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

Many economists reject this debt anchor and instead believe that with a strong economy now is the time not only to eliminate the deficit, but also to run surpluses and reduce debt.

In short, the federal government takes revenue from provinces that run surpluses and remits it to those that don't.

It's also anticipated that with the baby boomers retiring, running a surplus is not expected in the next several years at...

It suggested that his plans to run a surplus this year relied heavily on his decision to sell off our assets.

Although he didn't draw attention to it, Osborne's plans to run a surplus this year rely on his decision to sell off our assets.

Citizens Party office holders may not vote themselves payraises or new perks unless the budget is balanced or running a surplus.

But if not, any future chancellor who fails to run a surplus would have the police after them.

And this would be an easy one because he should be running a surplus of several million dollars which he pulled down dealing and wheeling with the boys of Wall Street.

This time we're going to run a surplus.

Now, the state is running surpluses.