Sentence examples for unearned profit from inspiring English sources

With the price now wobbling around $130, there is a huge amount of unearned profit waiting for a windfall tax.

That opens the way for the government to impose tariffs, in effect forcing the foreigners to charge us more -- and handing American steelmakers unearned profit.

It's easy to dismiss as a gimmick but there aren't many proposals that would benefit both the Treasury and the average taxpayer (or voter) while depriving financial institutions of an unearned profit.

But again here a windfall tax on unearned profits ticks all of the boxes.

Compass are currently leading a campaign calling for a one-off windfall tax on the unearned profits of the energy and oil companies.

Writer Henry George, running for mayor of New York, decried the "speculative" gains of financial barons and the monopolists who appropriated "unearned" profits.

Professional and product-liability lawsuits in this country have reached ludicrous extremes, with tremendous cost to society and huge unearned profits to lawyers.

And institutional investors would still capture unearned profits from the share overhang, as they did in the 1980s when shares in privatised British businesses outperformed their peers.Nick Clegg's alternative, creating a "people's banking system" by giving away shares to all, may or may not be an improvement on the traditional privatisation model.

"The court's ruling means retailers will keep paying billions of dollars more than they should, and that fee-hungry banks will continue to rake in unearned profits that ultimately come out of consumers' pockets," the National Retail Federation's general counsel, Mallory Duncan, told Reuters.

One way for businesses to conspire against the public is to have government create artificial barriers to entry, and thereby generate unearned profits for politically connected businesses.

The incentives driving executive decisions -- both inside the company (i.e. executive compensation) and externally (e.g. the Federal Reserve's ongoing policy to keep the main interest rate near zero, thereby effectively guaranteeing a spread for speculation) -- together sustain a culture of speculation and unearned profits that guarantees that the banks will not ever reform themselves.