Yet the great breakthrough of the register is that, for the first time, departments are being given an incentive to dispose of surplus assets.

ECONOMIST: State assets

The company is the sole liquidator of surplus and scrap assets for the US Department of Defense (DoD).

FORBES: Students from the McIntire Investment Institute Make the Pitch for Liquidity Services

Many small private companies liquidate surplus and salvage assets online, but they do not compete directly with Liquidity Services.

FORBES: Students from the McIntire Investment Institute Make the Pitch for Liquidity Services

Securitisation is really an arbitrage: with surplus collateral, assets can be bundled into an entity with a supercharged credit rating.

ECONOMIST: Securitisation

Liquidity Services operates in the reverse supply chain industry, helping organizations liquidate surplus and salvage assets through online auction marketplaces.

FORBES: Students from the McIntire Investment Institute Make the Pitch for Liquidity Services

Instead, the yen's strength is a by-product of private sector recycling of the current account surplus and international purchases of Japanese assets.

FORBES

Unlike the goods and services prices index, the GDP deflator measures change In compensation of employees, operating surplus (including mixed income), and consumption of fixed assets arisen from changes in prices and nominal net taxes.

UNESCO: Belarus: Report: Part I: Descriptive Section

But there are good reasons why surplus countries may think hard now before shifting their portfolios into riskier assets.

ECONOMIST: The flows are neither as big nor as scary as they once seemed