Ten years ago, we had a big budget surplus with projected surpluses far into the future.
The recent fall in private saving has been only partly offset by the government's budget surplus.
One ad highlights the issue of what to do with the federal budget surplus.
Confidence will then return, particularly as Greece draws closer to a primary budget surplus.
And there are two ways of doing that: the first being to run a budget surplus.
Given the disappearance of the budget surplus, this might seem insuperable, but there is a silver lining.
He expects the country to end the year with a budget surplus of around 2% of GDP.
Clinton said the budget surplus ought not be spent until the survival of Social Security is assured.
The politics involved in achieving any meaningful progress towards a budget surplus are above my pay grade.
The cautious Mr Costello's obsession with running a constant budget surplus is seen as a wasted opportunity.
Jack is the only budget director in history to preside over a budget surplus for three consecutive years.
And the White House has yet to learn about the vanishing budget surplus.
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True, Mr Brown is on course for a current budget surplus this year.
In the Keynesian national-income identity, G represents government spending, not the budget surplus.
He left office with a country that had 22.2 million new jobs, a budget surplus, and low national debt.
As the Argentine economy recovers vigorously and the government's budget surplus mounts, it will find repaying its creditors more affordable.
France has been enjoying a favourable economic climate in the past year, with strong growth leading to a growing budget surplus.
Mr Stournaras hopes they are deep enough to achieve a primary budget surplus (before making debt repayments) of 1.4% of GDP.
Any prospect of an annual government budget surplus has vanished for the foreseeable future, whatever happens to Mr Bush's tax cuts.
Estonia also is the only Eurozone nation to run a budget surplus.
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He defended his choice to increase spending by citing the budget surplus.
But if Beijing were truly worried about the economy overheating then surely it could cut public investment and run a budget surplus?
Debt-servicing aside, the government is running a healthy and growing budget surplus.
The sagging economy is also taking its toll on the budget surplus.
Our economy is strong. the budget deficit is now a budget surplus.
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The creation of a budget surplus was the result of a long struggle between the White House and Congress that began during the Clinton years.
But Mr McCreevy and his friends retort that, given the size of the budget surplus, cuts would not necessarily overheat the economy.
The vice president advocates spending 15 percent of the budget surplus to give seniors prescription medication benefits and to "shore up" Medicaid.
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Where a budget surplus exists, how might a government best use it?
Next year it aims to achieve a primary surplus - ie a budget surplus, excluding the costs it pays to service its debts.
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