CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State officials estimate the state’s budget surplus for this fiscal year is in the neighborhood of $1 billion. Much of that is the result of federal pandemic relief money, but the ...

Adages may be old, but they still can be wise. “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched” should be a foundation stone of good economic policy. However, financial prudence does not seem to be ...

Opponents of tax cuts are using the disappearing budget surplus to justify their calls to repeal last year's tax cuts, but the government's own data do not support their claims. According to the most ...

Companies vary greatly in terms of their missions, strategic goals and product offerings, but every business has an underlying goal of generating surplus. Surplus is a concept in economics that ...

William Shakespeare saw only two permanent issues, war and lechery. Obviously, he never saw Minnesota’s state budget seesawing back and forth as it now has for decades. Edward Lotterman Be glad we are ...

On today’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers an introduction to the key economic concept of “the surplus.” He explains economic structures as ways of organizing the production and ...

New Zealand’s government is pledging to cut spending and return the budget to surplus even as economic growth slows and it faces the extra cost of paying for tax cuts from the middle of next year.

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President Javier Milei’s controversial plan to shock Argentina’s economy back into growth has chalked up a significant win. After years of rising debt, the country has now posted four consecutive ...

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