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We gave kids this windfall of Goldfish for themselves and a chance to give some of their Goldfish away to a puppet named Monkey.
This chimpanzee stumbles across a windfall of overripe plums.
I hope that there will be an Eddie Monroe 2. I would love to see how Nicolette turns out after getting her windfall of money.
Finally, high oil prices in the past 12 months provided an unexpectedly large windfall to the Iraqi budget, allowing for the financing of other sectors without slighting the oil industry.
Because households would spend part of the windfall, a helicopter drop would boost both domestic demand and the price level.
This windfall allowed higher government spending and less austerity.
But if Trump has prioritized antagonizing Europe over winning its support against China, then that is surely a windfall for the Chinese.
But Russia’s latest energy windfall has masked Putin’s incompetent economic management, with growth and government revenues now entirely reliant on the hydrocarbons sector.
It is therefore a good time to introduce carbon taxes, so that the oil windfall is not simply gobbled up at the gas station.
Rather than using the oil windfall to pay for long-overdue reforms in health care, education, and utilities – and thus helping to ensure the macroeconomic stability needed to sustain rapid long-term growth – President Vladimir Putin has chosen large spending increases for public wages and pensions.
But the windfall was mismanaged, fueling fiscal profligacy, and the end of the boom left economies in recession and voters with broken dreams.
Of course, if that inhabitant already owned a house there that they can sell, they may regard the price increase as a windfall that they can claim by departing.
Without careful policy planning, the continent’s anticipated demographic windfall could turn out to be a ticking time bomb.
Historically, fiscal profligacy tends to take hold at times like these, with windfall revenues wasted on extravagant public projects.
Rather than subsidizing the price in the domestic oil market (and thus giving domestic manufacturers and consumers an incentive to use too much oil), it would make far better sense to let the domestic price rise to the international price and distribute the windfall profits from foreign oil assets to the population.
But, because of political pressure exerted by small, powerful interest groups, windfall profits will inevitably be spent at home in unwise subsidies.
Even if the foreign company does not start squeezing out its minority owners, its government will be tempted to expropriate foreign owners through windfall taxes (if the government is sophisticated) or nationalization (if it is unsophisticated) – especially if its voters feel, with the benefit of hindsight and populist incitement, that the assets were sold too cheaply.
But the iron-ore companies have gotten a windfall gain as iron-ore prices have soared (nearly doubling since 2007).
If and when the natural resource generating the windfall wealth (in this case, oil and gas) disappears, the economy is left with too few competitive industries and too many empty bookstore-cafes.
If, however, a permanent increase in the monetary base is transferred to the government as seigniorage revenue, it can use the windfall to fund tax cuts or increase spending without affecting its balance sheets.
Everyone fell in love with the territorial windfall stretching from the Jordan River in the east to the Suez Canal in the west, from Mount Hermon in the north to Sharm al-Sheikh in the south.
When oil prices skyrocketed, the windfall was stolen and squandered.
To determine what should be done with this windfall, it is important to know whether the increase in commodity prices is likely to be permanent or transitory.
Given this, it would be wise to spend at least part of the windfall on improving the capacity to innovate, which is essential for a long-term growth beyond the fluctuation of international commodity prices.
Both were necessary, but, with few exceptions, the region is not using the commodity windfall to do what it must: improve technological capacities sufficiently to ensure that future economic growth does not depend entirely on the fickle furtunes of finite natural resources.
Both the timing and the nuance of approaches to Turkmenistan will be crucial: a new natural gas pricing deal between Turkmenistan and Russia will likely bring windfall profits to Ashgabat in the near future, and this extra cash could make an authoritarian backslide tempting.
Indeed, the Navarro-Ross analysis attributes fully 73% of the growth-inducing revenue windfall of Trumponomics to a massive improvement in the overall trade balance over the next decade.
A bride price or dowry can also be a much-needed windfall for desperate families.
Though the army has reaped a financial windfall from US military aid, and has targeted many foreign militants allied with al-Qaeda in the region, its performance against Pakistani militants has been mixed at best.
Their export markets in emerging economies will suffer, damping hopes of a trade-led recovery, but that negative effect stands to be more than offset by the windfall from a big drop in energy costs.
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