“Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.” WayGivingCountryProblemPresidentEconomicFindingsPermanentSovietScarcityDeprivationSurplusAmerican President Author:Elie Abel
“Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.” CountryTodayMovementBalanceSixtyReservesDeficitPaymentSurplus Author:Robert C. Solomon
“My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.” WayI CanRealCountryInterestDealsClassObjectsBenefitsSpringAdvantagePressesBurdenSecureConsumersInjuryCanadaCommerceManufacturingSurplus Author:Robert Peel
“The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of the capitalists of the other countries. Similarly, a colonial metropolis may achieve an export surplus through investment in its dependencies.” MayCountryAbleAchieveIncreaseInvestmentProfitManageExpensesCaptureCapitalistOther CountriesDependencySurplusMetropolis Book:Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970 Source: Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970