In principle a tax on rents should not distort miners' behaviour, because it only grabs profits above what they require to keep doing what they're doing.
And by all accounts, Howard W. Lutnick of Cantor Fitzgerald fit that world perfectly, edging out his rivals at other bond trading firms and grabbing profits with the best of them.
While the publishing houses still held a stronghold on bookstores, Amazon and online sales steadily grabbed profits.
In the main this is being done by forcing as many councils as possible to choose the first option and hand their stock over to a hungry financial interest poised to grab easy profits.
Hedge funds and others had bought it at under $400 and sold it at nearly $700 to grab handsome profits.
Other than that, I'm not big on companies that grab big profits, be they Big Oil or the American newspaper industry, which considers 20percentt a year a nice return and is willing to make your local newspaper into a shell of a news reporting entity to maintain that sort of revenue flow.
This will draw in those with incentives to vote "no" on the deal to try to grab that profit.
Such short term-ism, the grab a profit while you can mentality, looks like coming back to haunt South African rugby for the next two World Cups.
By adopting grossly unrealistic return assumptions, many companies have grabbed pension "profits" that might never materialise and will have to be written off eventually (see article).
As the balance sheets of the agencies swelled, they grabbed the profit margin that traditionally went to savings and loans.
