Sentence examples for massive surplus from inspiring English sources

Paul Keating's 1988 budget, with its massive surplus, was going to bring "home the bacon".

Nats under public ownership produced a massive surplus for the Treasury in every year".

The industry can switch from massive surplus to massive deficit within a few months.A further problem, that applies especially to the banks, is moral hazard.

In fact, over the course of 400 years, the farms of the Senegambia region needed to produce a massive surplus of food to provision the slave trade.

The answer is that the private sector is deleveraging, having moved into massive surplus as consumers try to pay down debt and corporations hold back on investment in the face of weak consumer demand.

This time though, the government is running a massive surplus, with a rainy-day fund of $3.5bn collected from oil largesse that can't be touched until 2017, among other funds.

Because he had accumulated massive surpluses since 1997, Brown could turn on the taps without worrying about breaking the Golden Rule, which mandates that over the economic cycle, government will borrow only to invest.

Economists at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York concluded recently that "massive surpluses and retirement of Treasury debt are 'baked in the cake' almost no matter what the economy does over the next 10 years".

"We can't continue to sustain a situation in which some countries are maintaining massive surpluses, others massive deficits and there never is the kind of adjustment with respect to currency that would lead to a more balanced growth pattern," Mr. Obama said.

In addition to a highly restrictive fiscal policy with massive surpluses, macroprudential tools in banking and real estate are further policy options.Mr Koo's apologetic remarks about the periphery's policy choices completely ignore that his very own concept of putting balance sheets at the heart of the business cycle goes both ways—just like the modern critique of austerity, may I add.

There were fears, too, of the impact of the massive surpluses it has built up.