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So we can be sure that the city runs a huge trade deficit--probably bigger than that of the United States as a whole, which is why splitting it off from the rest of the country would give the mainland a surplus.
that the Asian flu would soon strike the United States, evaporate the surplus, and vanquish the Clinton juggernaut in the process.
What that trade surplus actually reflects is Russia's sorry state, in which nervous businessmen and corrupt officials siphon off a large fraction of the country's foreign exchange earnings, parking it in safe havens abroad rather than making it available to pay for imports.
In his recent budget, the president tried to conceal the fact that there was a surplus, and the Republicans, with their talk about a "lockbox" for Social Security, have confused everyone, probably including themselves.
"The president is going to spend every nickel" of the surplus, Domenici protested, "so Alan Greenspan would agree with us" that taxes should be cut instead.