Merchant Ivory has, now and then, been scorned for a surfeit of tastefulness — for not daring enough.
The innovation in the use of PPP collateral is that right now, in the global capital markets, there is a dearth of financing for long-term capital investment, and a surfeit of finance for consumers and arbitrage trading.
Young men from eastern Europe often live four or five to a room, and work impossibly long hours; with echoes of Europe's macroeconomic asymmetries, the local labour market is divided between insufficient jobs that be can be done by people with families and mortgages, and a surfeit of opportunities for those who will work whenever they are required for a relative pittance.
After all, many medical schools these days are the recipients of a surfeit of cadavers for their students because the schools are allowed to pay for the funerals and cremations or burials of people who donate their bodies for medical purposes.
Before long he had a surfeit of stories for "So Runs the World Away".
And Trump's problem doesn't exactly appear to be a surfeit of empathy for the people he's firing.
Twenty per cent of dogs chose praise more often than food, suggesting a surfeit of affection for their owners.
By the time you reach the top of the museum's spiral, you may feel that you've experienced a surfeit of newness for newness's sake.
"I moved out of rented accommodation in Stoke and it's been a great opportunity for me," says civil servant Pierpoint, 28, who found himself successful amid a surfeit of applicants for Stoke's £1 homes.
Beyond the intellectual property issue, the new technology has created a surfeit of material for researchers, and that in turn has spawned a new challenges — principally, how to manage the wealth of material that is now accessible.
