expropriation

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Bill Ackman, the vociferous hedge-fund manager based in New York, called the California union’s proposal “an expropriation of private property” in a post on X this week.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Refineries and other assets of foreign companies were seized; the government paid Exxon, Mobil, Gulf and Shell $1 billion each for the expropriation, well below the value of their holdings.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

“The Americans forced one of the most entrepreneurial countries on Earth into an expropriation lite,” says Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025

She also opposes the expropriation plans and wants to stay living in the same place.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

This expropriation is accomplished by the action of the immanent laws of capitalist production itself, by the centralisation of capital.

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.