If the cheap dollar has mostly caused the global cash surplus, then the endgame is not a happy one.
Because the Federal Government will need that amount of the cash surplus to purchase the shares, this contribution will not reduce the public debt.
An outright purchase of another company to accomplish these objectives would also help solve the cash surplus problem, which would be a grand slam for investors.
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By and large, most economists I speak to think the Chancellor's decision to take hold of that big cash surplus sitting in the Bank of England's quantitative easing account is perfectly sensible.
Companies often have surplus cash and banks surplus deposits.
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The works would be paid for by surplus cash generated by the market each year.
And they are taxed so heavily that they rarely have any surplus cash to invest.
What these peer-to-peer lenders do is directly match people and companies who have surplus cash with people and companies looking to borrow.
Japan's overborrowed businesses are using surplus cash to pay down debts.
Experts say Apple isn't alone: Other companies, especially in the technology sector, are sitting on surplus cash balances that might not be fully reflected in their stock prices.
Tadashi Nakamae, an economist, argues that corporate restructuring is transferring wealth from households to companies in Japan, reducing the surplus cash that families have to save and swelling the coffers of businesses.
The conclusions drawn from such an analysis are to transfer the surplus cash from a conglomerate's cash cows to the stars and the question marks, and to close down or sell off the dogs.
"They are constantly looking at surplus cash and evaluating various options, including the option of buying back their own shares, paying down debt and looking at a full range of potential acquisitions out there, " he says.
That risk was already highlighted earlier this year in public statements of Vodafone, GlaxoSmithKline, WPP and Reckitt Benckiser that they were moving their surplus cash out of euros and out of the eurozone on a daily basis.
But after graduating from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada, Mr Fekete moved to London and set up MaxBips, a website where small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) auction their surplus cash to banks.
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The committee were keen to know why Scottish Water was in a position of surplus reduction in cash terms.
But as long as the budget ran a surplus, that extra cash could be used to pay off that debt.
They were already holding as much cash as they wanted, so this surplus was rapidly spent.
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Such people, land-rich but cash-poor, may now submit their credits to the state treasury for a full cash refund whenever the state budget is in surplus.
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The company is trading at slightly under its book value, or the surplus of what it owns over what it owes, and at four times its cash flow making it statistically cheap on two key measures.
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