Surpluses in a sentence

Economies such as Japan and Germany which have savings surpluses, typically run trade surpluses.

After years of record California budget surpluses, Gov. Newsom outlined a plan to deal with a deficit he projects at $22.5 billion and said he can keep his big promises despite the shortfalls.

Although the state has been running multi-billion dollar surpluses in each of the last two years, the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget has that state finances could start running deficits as soon as Fiscal Year 2025.

But while Gov. Mills is busy patting herself on the back and claiming that surpluses and rainy day savings are the result of her brilliant fiscal management, remember that she and her administration have had little to do with it.

Food waste and agricultural surpluses have environmental and social impacts, beyond food just going in the garbage.

Now the surpluses are getting auctioned off for a mere $500,000, about cents for every buck spent.

The country is on track to achieve one of the only surpluses in any eurozone member this year and next, driving competing calls on Minister for Finance Michael McGrath and Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe to spend big.

The movement of money out of China has roughly matched the money brought in by the country’s large trade surpluses.

We were in the fourth fiscal year of federal budget surpluses.

And with increased surpluses over the decades, there’s no reason why this country, couldn’t be spic and span.

At the same time, large surpluses in many states have prompted the passage of major tax cuts and reforms.

But where Labour recorded a deficit in 2023, both the Lib Dems and Conservatives recorded surpluses.

China, meanwhile, has eclipsed the United States as a force in international trade and has leveraged its large surpluses and national savings to become the biggest global lender.

If you are using energy surplus as a measure of energy independence, there have now been three consecutive annual surpluses that exceeded those under Donald Trump.

In many of these areas, surpluses emerged as an unwanted side effect of the real-estate slump weighing down China’s economy.

Similar surpluses are pencilled in for the following two years.

Solving the enormous inconsistency of having big investment gaps while running with large current account surpluses is urgent and complex.

Surpluses were totally drained.

The enormous surpluses appropriated by “big business” employers—usually corporations—allow them to reward their upper-level executives lavishly.

They need a guarantee (or “underpin”) to persuade trustees to release £225bn of stagnating surpluses and for another 2,000 very small, closed defined-benefit schemes to agree to be merged into the highly successful Pension Protection Fund.