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The gold rush for artificial intelligence has already created a windfall for the state from a surge in income tax collected on stock market gains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

This windfall ends up in the hands of a powerful few.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

All of these factors help to boost the appeal of an immediate financial windfall.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

The totality zone in Spain covers a year-round population of 16 million people, where the rare phenomenon is delivering an unexpected economic windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

He finished with a score of 7–3, tied for second place, a point behind first prize, and he won $59, which he pocketed without revealing his windfall to his mother.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Pacific island nations are divided on whether deep-sea mining will deliver economic windfalls, or environmental catastrophe.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Refiners PBF Energy and Valero also reported windfalls, with the latter earning $3.7 billion, another fivefold increase from the year before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Among the largest windfalls recorded in the filings is $263 million in earnings connected to the sale of equity in World Liberty Financial, the president’s cryptocurrency business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The investments covered in the ledger were tiny percentages of SpaceX but would have generated windfalls.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

As a European cyclotron center, it would be joined by Frederic Joliot’s lab in Paris, Bohr’s in Copenhagen, and then, miraculously, by the Cavendish, which in 1936 found itself “wallowing in cash” from two windfalls.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik