Sentence examples for unearned profits from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

It's all about $2 million a day to feed your insatiable appetite for undeserved, unearned monopoly profits".

"For tunately I made an unearned and undeserved profit on the sale of my house in southeast London," he confessed.

Other governments would do well to emulate and improve upon Australia's efforts to shift the tax burden from hard-earned wages and profits to unearned rents and uncompensated harms.

Neal Lawson, the chair of Compass, says: The current spike in the price of oil means these companies are receiving unearned and undeserved windfall profits that are damaging to the rest of society, not least because the unprecedented price rises are fuelling inflation and therefore the cost of borrowing and repaying mortgages.

Silicon Valley is riddled with these suits, and it was there that the term was coined; there are trolls under every bridge, demanding their unearned share of the tech boom profits.

In all cases, the winners are the landowners, who profit handsomely from the unearned income of neighbourhood improvement.