windfall
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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
Among those who expect to receive an inheritance or financial gift, 43% say their retirement planning depends a great deal on that expected windfall, LendingTree found.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Musk’s rocket company SpaceX went public in June in a record-setting IPO that raised $86 billion from Wall Street and delivered a windfall to investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Palsson and Bobby might see some money, it was suggested, if the film made a profit, although it was highly unlikely for a documentary to realize even a slight windfall.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
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