…the combination of on-budget surplus/deficit and off-budget surplus/deficit. And for all practical purposes off-budget surplus equates to Social Security surplus. Meaning there is a practical equation between ‘off-budget surplus’ and…

…neither deficits or surpluses necessarily mean what they suggest once reported in the media. In other words “I don’t think that $6 billion surplus means what you think it means”….

…intellectual energy analyzing capitalism — how surplus value is extracted, how class relations form, how markets expand, how crises emerge from systemic contradictions. Das Kapital, all three volumes of it,…

Another Shrill Economist Shrill is, of course, the word conservatives often use to label an economist when said economist makes a case that they cannot refute with logic or data….

…the GOP attempt to label the Dems as the tax-and-spend party, the GOP turned out to be the tax-cut-and spend-anyway party. Government grew under Bush, even while revenues shrank. The…

…were greater than the big drops in our oil production and oil imports. We had a small surplus of oil left to add to our stored commercial crude supplies for…

…weather lowered demand and allowed for surplus gas to be stored before winter, the contract price of natural gas for November delivery ignored a 10 percent jump in European natural gas prices…

…October 22nd indicated that after a modest increase in our oil imports and a modest decrease in our oil exports, we had surplus oil to add to our stored commercial crude supplies for the fourth time…

…we had surplus oil to add to our stored commercial crude supplies for the fifth time in six weeks and for the for the tenth time in the past thirty-one weeks ….

…Administration for the week ending March 11th indicated that even after a big increase in our oil exports, we still had surplus oil to add to our stored commercial crude supplies for the…