Joy Reid

What stalwart Republican would stop Trump from profiteering for his businesses from the White House the way he's gamed his companies and the tax code for decades, or prevent him from letting his adult children milk their father's position to benefit his supposed 'blind trust?

American Journalist

Christoph Waltz

Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she wants. Humans need to be shrunk again to their actual size.

Austrian Actor

Naomi Klein

As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina.

Canadian Journalist

Marcia Angell

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

American Editor

Shaffi Mather

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

Indian Businessman

Used when someone gains excessive profit in times of scarcity or emergency, often seen as unethical.

Crisis Context

The term often has a negative tone, implying greed or taking unfair advantage of situations.

Negative Connotation

Government may intervene to prevent profiteering, establishing regulations or price controls.

Regulatory Actions

 is visually and relatively so I scrape to load a report figures from various news outlets and then scaled the boxes according to those amounts and the colors here represent the motivation behind the money so purple is fighting and red is giving money away and green is profiteering and what you can see

The beauty of data...

 and red is "giving money away," and green is "profiteering." And what you can see straight away is you start to have a different relationship to the numbers. You can literally see them. But more importantly, you start to see patterns and connections between numbers

Profiteering