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Given the weight of surplus capital among banks and investors wanting growth and the economies of scale you can get, there will be action.

Huw Van Steenis

He's given himself as much potential as he could. There's been nothing really bad that's happened to him, and he's got a budget surplus and a lot of popularity.

Kirk Jowers

This is very necessary to reduce China's trade surplus with the United States and other developed countries.

Lu Jianhua

If the US dollar remains firm, then flows looking for an appreciation of the yuan will remain at their 2005 levels or lower and we're forecasting a more or less unchanged trade surplus.

Tim Condon

We have a surplus of money and would like to give it away.

Rick Alexander

There's no surplus ever. We're not going to do anything to deter our current services, but we cannot afford to acquire additional anything -- it's down to the bone.

Leon Spencer

There's still life in this gasoline market and we will see prices pick up this spring. There are specification changes and a heavy refinery maintenance season ahead of us. These could erase this supply surplus as quickly as it appeared.

James Ritterbusch

Every acre is precious. But some of these are parcels that have been identified as surplus to our long-term management objectives.

Carl Holguin

There's a good opportunity for this company to sell surplus power into the wholesale market. Wholesale prices look attractive.

Paul Fremont

Our revision does not guarantee that the copper market moves to surplus, but it does suggest the market is coming closer into balance.

John Tumazos

Our feeling is that with the current surplus of physical crude that prices will continue to erode from here for the next week or two.

Lawrence Eagles

The $864 billion Republican tax cut is a destructive plan that will eat the surplus alive and suck the VA dry. They are trading veterans for votes and it is shameful.

Lane Evans

There's even an outside chance of a budget surplus.

Kevin Lings

We still have areas with growth, so if we have surplus teachers we could send them there.

Jane Turner

The latest current account surplus... confirmed the view that the economy is growing at a moderate pace.

Hiroaki Muto

From Gregoire and the Democrats' perspective, it's 'are we going to spend it now or are we going to spend it later?' There's no hint of giving it back to the taxpayers. The $1.4 billion tax surplus is not the government's money, it's the taxpayers' money.

Tim Eyman

We're still living off a couple of years of surplus rainfall. We can get through a continued dry spring, as long as the summer rains come when they're supposed to.

Michael Molligan

It is pretty clear they were attempting to move this oil into a crude oil market where there was already a surplus.

Tim Evans

There's only one conclusion: Continuing to bolster labor-intensive production and exports is the only viable means for China to absorb its surplus labor and improve rural living standards.

Qu Hongbin

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

David R. Gergen

The Social Security surplus is always being spent. Now it's going to defense and rebuilding rather than paying down debt. From a psychological standpoint, spending it may even be good for privatization. Opponents might use that surplus as a hedge, saying we've got money in a lock-box and don't need to privatize.

Michael Tanner

But if you have a big trade surplus it will give Western politicians an excuse or tool for them to put pressure on the currency.

Qu Hongbin

None of this money was placed in water and sewer surplus, and it therefore had no impact on the fund balance.

Craig Ross

In 2004, when the industry faced record catastrophic losses, policy holders' surplus grew by 12.5 percent to $391 billion.

John Morrison

They attempted to put out a fan magazine, but since it wasn't done correctly, no one bought it. There was an unsuccessful Web site and a surplus amount of bonuses set to help Janie and her cohorts.

David Osgood

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

Buster Brown

The greatest single cause of the fiscal surplus of the 1990s was the stock market bubble, which led to an unsustainably high level of economic activity and tax revenues.

Ben S. Bernanke

We've relied on a skills surplus from Europe, America or other parts of the world but we've got to up our own efforts to bring on stream professionals in that area.

Moosa Karodia

These are unprecedented surplus volumes, reflecting the structural changes of China becoming the factory of the world.

Dong Tao

But ironically, this is going to turn the shortage into a surplus in a very short period of time. This problem has also been masked by seasonal demand for processors, which is very strong at this time of the year.

Drew Peck

I'm not a big fan of taking on surplus space. . . . I'd rather see tenants increasing the efficiency of space use.

John O'toole

Traders switched focus from a fall in crude inventories to a general surplus of oil and signs of falling demand.

Sam Tilley

There's always a need to grow. I'd like to see there be a surplus in there. I'd rather have the problem of having too much money for kids in there.

Kahl Muscott

We believe China's trade surplus will gradually drop, but it will take time before it drops dramatically.

Louis Kuijs

That surplus is being spent on everything the government does from rutabaga research to the war in Iraq. If Congress is going to spend like a drunken sailor, take the bottle away from them.

Michael Tanner

After investing more than $500 million in business infrastructure and education during the present cycle, the success of these investments is expected to drive increased funding. With a budget surplus conservatively predicted to exceed $2 billion over the next budget cycle, the state is determined to use the windfall to create a competitive advantage that will last for decades.

Mark Willis

I voted against that bill because it didn't make sense to create a new tax while the state is growing and has an $8 billion surplus.

Richard Raymond

It's almost certain that China's trade surplus will remain at a high level in 2006. Obviously, there will be further pressure from trade protectionists in the United States.

Mei Xinyu

These imbalances, reflect in part in the rising US deficit as well as the massive surplus in China's current account, pose a threat to international trading relationships upon which much of the recent global prosperity has been built.

Charles Dallara

In the past two years, we've seen the budget go from surplus to deficit, adding about $400 billion of stimulus to the economy, but we've still lost 2.5 million private-sector jobs.

Lacy Hunt

We want to grow the organization and improve returns to shareholders, ... If at some stage there is surplus capital - we're not at that stage now - we will return it in the optimal manner.

Martin Sullivan

China is not in pursuit of a trade surplus. On the contrary, the continuous growth in trade surpluses has become one of the major concerns of the government, as it helped increase China's foreign exchange reserves to US$760 billion, which has begun to affect the national economy.

Li Yushi

The story there is more positive, not just from the current-account surplus, but also from the interest-rate side and growth, ... These will help the baht.

Craig Chan

With supply just not arriving quickly enough, it is increasingly looking as though it will take a severe downturn in economic growth and copper demand growth to tip the market into surplus.

Adam Rowley

We have overfed Europe with oil. Every economics textbook says that surplus supply lowers prices. But we can't reduce supply -- all our exports are oriented toward Europe.

Semyon Vainshtok

The sale provides the business with a huge surplus of capital, some of which will be returned to shareholders, which is also a move people will savor.

Angus Gluskie

It makes our operations show that there's a big surplus when you don't have a big surplus.

Dale Timmermann

I would like to attribute the surplus to the weak domestic demand.

Mei Xinyu

It's mandated by the state ? we had to use a lot of our surplus and it affected keeping our taxes down. It's not bad when you think that last year taxes went down six (cents).

Michael Payton

At the moment we've got a little bit of a budget surplus, so it's not an immediate concern.

Jim Harris

Individuals and families are due a refund, and that is exactly what we do with this legislation, ... Government is not automatically entitled to the surplus.

William Roth

We are investigating the possibility of using our surplus gases for power generation. The study is at a very preliminary stage.

Tami Didiza

We have some middle infielders, and we'll see. We're in Spring Training, once you get the first weeks of games in, there starts to be communications with other teams about wants and needs and teams that may have a surplus in other areas.

Larry Beinfest

European companies are driving the economic integration of the region. Europe has a trade surplus and relatively high rates of household income and savings. In addition, European stocks are relatively low-priced.

Amy Domini

Operationally, every year, we've accumulated some surplus. I think the surplus balance should be about $4 million this year. Projecting forward, I think we'll be adding to that.

Howard Ikeda

From a local perspective they're saving a lot of money at the moment and their fiscal surplus was 15 percent last year and is going to be 14 percent this year.

Steve Brice

We'd like to see Bonneville use the (surplus power) sales to keep rates as low as possible. We don't need another rate-raising factor out of our control.

Dave Andrew

Rumors of refinery problems have created aggressive trading on the surplus fuel market, where independent station operators buy from. Although there is no shortage of gasoline, the day trading is driving prices higher.

Charles Langley

I think an ample current account surplus is one of the factors that can boost the won and prompt intervention in the first quarter.

Chun Chong Woo

The 30-year bond is being hurt a little bit by fears of increased government spending, no more surplus, deficit spending. But what has mitigated the losses a little bit today is the fact that oil is down so much.

Bill Hornbarger

It's still a fast pace and that's partly to do with the difficulty in managing this very large balance of payments surplus because part of it is spilling over into the money supply.

Rob Subbaraman

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Andrew Mellon

It's very difficult to see how China can decrease its trade surplus in the short term. China is very self- sufficient in terms of consumer goods and electronics and while they can buy more Boeing and Airbus jets, they are already doing that and still recording a surplus.

Tai Hui

A decline in the savings surplus will pose a long-term risk if public debt is not brought under control.

Thomas Byrne

This should be yen positive, as the trade surplus argument always favors the yen.

Takehiko Jimbo

We certainly don't operate with a huge surplus, so we could be losing money at any given time. We're not unlike any other department in the district.

Beth Glitt

If we end up with a majority government you could see a bit of a rally in the currency but it would be short-lived. Canada's economy is comfortably in surplus and that backdrop isn't going to change, no matter who wins.

Marc Levesque

The consistently elevated level of trade surplus continues to put pressure on officials to allow further yuan appreciation.

Grace Ng

We will probably do something similar to what we've done the other two years we've had a pretty good surplus.

Randall Luthi

With the winter to summer transition, there's no air mattress below the high wire as far as surplus gas is concerned.

Angela Veitch

The driving force is that you have a current account surplus supported by overseas worker remittances.

Ray Farris

We have the least (economic) resilience (of all the states), we never built up a surplus. We don't have the momentum, and we will go backwards; the economy of Michigan will get worse relative to the other states, we will go backward 1 to 2 percent.

David Littmann

This is basically surplus, and the vaccine has a limited shelf-life. So instead of disposing of it, we wanted to make it available to people who may have missed earlier opportunities to get their shots.

Jeannie Keating

The plans are quite different. They're different in how much of the surplus they would use. They're different in where those surplus dollars would go. They're different in which groups of the population would get the principal benefits.

Robert Greenstein

People were somewhat focused on the trade surplus numbers. Japan is ultimately an exporting country and those exports are getting more expensive.

Robert Sasaki

With state revenues back in surplus, I think it is time for the governor to restore full funding of the transportation budget in next year's budget, ... Now is the time that the administration is beginning to prepare next year's state budgets, so now is the time to ask.

Mark Norris

2005 was the best year for commercial construction since 2001, (but) we've still got that stock of buildings where we have a surplus.

Tony Plath

The surplus will continue shrinking as oil prices push up imports. The biggest concern is that rising oil prices could derail growth in the U.S. and other countries, which would be a blow to Japanese exports.

Naoki Iizuka

The surplus confirms that business tax cuts are affordable and so are personal tax cuts.

John Key

It's inconsistent that UH pays rent. We've always had a cash surplus every year.

Howard Ikeda

We are having a negative bout in stocks, especially U.S. stock markets, and that is making investors a bit more cautious. With Brazil's trade surplus being driven by commodities, the drop in prices there is also hurting us.

Alexandre Vasarhelyi

While there is no question that the sponsor is responsible for any deficit in the plan, it is not at all clear that the sponsor benefits from any surplus that may be generated.

David Dodge

I believe that Brazil will meet its target for the primary budget surplus in 2006. However, it's normal that in an electoral year the government will lift its expenses, reducing the surplus in the second half.

Nuno Camara

Argentina has finally given a sign of tranquility, and the market felt free to rise. Investors also got some good news on our primary budget surplus, which is an important factor for foreigners.

Helio Ozaki

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Harvey S. Firestone

These huts were probably sold off as surplus and probably purchased by a single builder or developer and probably for no more that $100 to $200 each.

Chris Chiei

According to forecasts, the labor age population will reach a high level in the coming two years. In addition, there'll be more surplus rural laborers moving to cities to find jobs.

Huang Ju

The budget surplus is $5.6 trillion. Two and a half trillion of that is put aside for Social Security and paying down the national debt, ... That leaves $3.1 trillion in surplus. That's after we've taken care of all existing spending. We're only asking that half of that, [$1.6 trillion] out of the $3.1 trillion, be used for tax cuts.

Lawrence Lindsey

The swearing of Turner, a man of immense frame and muscular power, during our evening's conversation, was most terrific. I had heard mountain swearing before, but his went far beyond all former examples. He could do all the swearing for our army in Mexico, and then have a surplus.

John Turner

The key was how little effort it was to actually learn something and be able to apply that learning on the fly. We applied the learning later that week for a nice surplus. And it took all of a couple hours work.

Brian Platter

We support education, but this is not a project that needs to be funded by the Nueces County taxpayers. There are many uses for surplus money in Nueces County. There are portions of the unincorporated area that do not have potable water. There are roads that need to be constructed or improved.

Terry Carter

Buoyant market demand for the group's portfolio of commodities, except titanium dioxide feedstock where surplus supply exists, is expected to support strong price levels.

Con Fauconnier

Even with the court-ordered spill we still have plenty of surplus.

John Fazio

It's a philosophical thing. If we have a surplus of state planes, we need to address that. We should not be in the chartering business.

Brian O'connell

We also have Brazil's strong trade surplus, and the reduction in the central bank offering of currency swap contracts, and they are all combining to push up the currency.

Flavio Farah

I don't think the world can tolerate such a massive surplus.

Dong Tao

It's the rest of the state that has all these power watches and stages and all these alerts. We are actually selling them our surplus power as we speak to help them keep their lights on.

David Freeman

One might expect that this female surplus would encourage more men to take second wives, but having two families simultaneously is difficult.

Peter Frost

The surplus will begin to moderate at some point relatively soon, partly because of some slowing in U.S. growth and partly because Japanese imports will begin to catch up a bit to the export surge.

Robert Feldman

The recent narrowing in Japan's trade surplus has come as improving domestic demand has pushed up the nation's import bills and thereby offset some of steady export gains.

Yasukazu Shimizu

It's currently a surplus asset in the community. Randolph has always embraced its public. We'll want to have a meeting and consider all options.

John Lovell

They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.

Robert Reischauer

The trade surplus will continue to shrink because of higher oil prices and sluggish exports. The direct effect of high oil prices on Japan is negligible and domestic capital spending is strong which is also causing imports to rise.

Junichi Makino

The exchange rate is again under the spotlight as a wave of protectionist rhetoric rushed through the U.S. against China's large trade surplus and its undervalued currency.

Adam Le Mesurier

We're just beginning to benefit from replacement business from the post-Sept. 11 period because a lot of capital projects dried up then and a number of our customers had surplus inventory until recently.

Tom Crafton

Wants to cut taxes and spend the surplus.

Phil Dow

When that happens, there are choices we can make about how surplus funds can be used strategically and deliberately to invest in Alberta's future, ... They will be made throughout the year as our financial forecasts are updated.

Ralph Klein

As we see it, the demand is not led by consumers but by investors who are keen to park their surplus funds in metals - not just gold but other like silver, zinc and copper as is evident from the trend in commodities trading.

Rakesh Saraf

There are fears in the oil markets of the continued supplying of markets with crude oil although there's a big surplus; there are quantities that the market cannot absorb, there is no buyer.

Sheikh Ahmad

Although the trade surplus declined for the ninth straight month, both exports and imports were up strongly in December.

Mamoru Yamazaki

China's trade surplus has become a structural feature of the economy, so while political pressure may grow, the economic argument for a stronger yuan is weak.

Tim Condon

We were also provided with improved planting materials such as pineapple suckers, banana suckers, mosaic free cassava cuttings and vegetable seeds. Today we produce enough food for consumption and sell the surplus.

Hassan Waiswa

The size of the income surplus is approaching that of the trade surplus, and this is a trend worth watching.

Koji Kobayashi

We have committed to the endowments, which is saving, we've committed to capital, which is investment, we've committed to inflation-proofing the Heritage Fund . . . and there is the very real possibility that we could add more dollars in that area, ... So we're talking about a small amount of this surplus, really.

Shirley Mcclellan

Our goal is to balance the budget for each quadrennial period, not annually. Individual years may show a surplus or a deficit depending upon timing of gifts.

Glen Kwok

The extra boxes will be put to good use. We can repackage the surplus supplies in those boxes and distribute them to other shelters. In fact, we have another church coming in later today to share in these supplies.

Annette Johnson

There was this pool of money sitting in the retirement funds, that was not part of the (state treasury). A couple of legislatures burned up that surplus. We came back to ground zero — and then we got into the loss years.

Terry Moore

OPEC today produces 30.4 million bpd and there is a surplus in the market estimated at over two million barrels.

Sheikh Ahmad

With distillate stocks at a 14 million-barrel surplus, the forecast for colder temperatures isn't providing much support. It is too little, too late.

John Kilduff

In light of the surplus, the MTA needs to assess whether the next fare hike is necessary.

Mike Bloomberg

Three cents sounds good. We do have a surplus and we should do something about the surplus and this is a way of giving something back to the taxpayers.

Charles Feaga

Food companies like Kraft have gotten more and more efficient through better production techniques, lower inventories and stronger quality control. All of that effort has kept prices down but has also reduced the some of the surplus that is available for donation.

Kraft Foods

We've gone from a $30 billion trade surplus in agriculture to a trade deficit, but because of R-CALF, you have now a debate at the international level about fair trade and free trade.

Leo Mcdonnell

The narrowing trade surplus reflects some weakness in electronics exports and rising commodity imports but it's unlikely to be enough to relieve pressure from the U.S. in the short term.

Ben Simpfendorfer

We've had some tremendous needs, and our surplus began to dwindle. This needs to change.

Billy Rhodes

The industry weathered Katrina, but if Rita comes ashore as a Category 4 or 5 storm, it would cast doubt on the solvency of some insurance companies and deplete the surplus capital for others.

Donald Light

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

John C. Calhoun

There is little probability that the trade surplus this year will exceed the 2005 level.

Li Yushi

It's a time of great surplus. Let's take it out of the General Fund and not tax the people.

Tom Walsh

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

Ann Coulter

We can set aside a surplus to save Social Security or Medicare, or we can pass the burden of the baby boomers retirement off on to our children.

John Spratt

The current-account surplus showed they've still got money coming into the country and the currency is undervalued. The current-account surplus certainly isn't under any threat.

Carlin Doyle

Unfortunately, it was the original trust indenture that titled it surplus fund.

Diane Altland

This is a very strange appropriations year. We are dealing with a surplus and budget cuts. The question is who is gong to take the pain for spending cuts?

David Hamilton

When taxes come in, we're going to have another surplus of money. I don't know if we are doing right by the taxpayers. I don't understand what happened here on Thursday night.

Councilman Charles Matthews

The price strength has been a little surprising given the magnitude of the surplus in U.S. corn inventories. However, over the past 32 years, the central Illinois cash price has never established a marketing year high in February, suggesting that even higher prices might be expected sometime over the next six months.

Darrel Good

We should gradually increase imports to reduce the large surplus between U.S.-China and gradually buy less U.S. debt. Holding so much foreign-exchange reserves exerts a great deal of pressure on our monetary policy.

Cheng Siwei

The trade surplus didn't narrow as much as people had been expecting so that's going to help the yen. The data coming out of Japan is looking pretty robust. So that's going to help the yen.

Kamal Sharma

The federal government has been spending much more of this 'found' (surplus) money in transfers to the provinces and other expenditures that consume current prosperity rather than investing in future prosperity or reducing taxes and debt.

Roger Martin

We want to collect as many supplies as possible, ... I encourage North Carolina farmers who have extra or surplus items to donate to their counterparts in Mississippi.

Steve Troxler

Many states are having an unexpected surplus of revenue, and that is because of economic growth. It's mainly because their estimates on economic growth were very low.

Stephen Slivinski

The economic fundamentals are a very supportive factor for the currency. The current account surplus and exports continue to perform well.

Beat Siegenthaler

I understand there is uncertainty but we've also got to make sure that we get things absolutely right and that what we are doing here is not just solving a problem of surplus places.

Rodney Berman

But if you look at other countries -- like Japan , Germany, or some other Asian and European countries -- they're all accumulating. Japan's surplus is much larger than China's.

Supachai Panitchpakdi

It helped me, the way I grew up, ... My parents didn't have a surplus of anything, so you always had to watch what you did. I carry that to this day.

Ned Colletti

The broader picture for the yen's decline is down to the continued deterioration in Japan's trade surplus.

Derek Halpenny

We think the district can afford it. They have a large budget surplus sitting in the bank; we think we're worth it and for us it's a matter of respect after the pay raises they handed out to administrators over the last few years.

Eric Davis

On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.

Edward Lazear