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Micron Technology is seeing a historic cash windfall — and much of that money will soon rain down on investors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

In her time, and in her opinion, a sensible woman’s paths to financial freedom were limited to hoping for a windfall or making one’s fortune off others’ backs as a madam.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The union has said revenue can be raised through a windfall tax on banks.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The windfall tax could see a 33% levy on 2026 Portuguese profits that are more than 20% above the average of 2024 and 2025, and would likely include Galp’s refining and commercial profits, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Leaves and windfall pears had piled up beneath the trees.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

Do you think investors are going to write off these massive AI windfalls, or write them down?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

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