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What is the term for spending less money than you earn?
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What is a market where prices are generally falling called?
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Which English banking collapse of 1995 was caused by rogue trader Nick Leeson?
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What well-known stock index tracks 30 large U.S. companies?
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What is the term for a sudden, severe drop in stock prices?
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What is the popular term for a digital currency like Bitcoin?
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What is the name for a bond that pays no periodic interest but is sold at a discount?
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What do you call the money a landlord charges a tenant to use property?
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What term describes selling a borrowed stock hoping to buy it back cheaper?
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What is the term for using borrowed money to invest?
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What is money set aside for use after you stop working called?
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In what year did the South Sea Bubble burst in Britain?
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What is the term for money you owe to someone else?
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Which Swiss city hosts the Bank for International Settlements, the 'central bank for central banks'?
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What is the common name for a long-term loan used to buy a house?
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What financial product provides a payout to beneficiaries when someone dies?
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Which Florentine banking family dominated European finance during the Renaissance?
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What is a place where stocks are bought and sold called?
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What is the name of the document a company files annually with the SEC summarizing performance?
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Which credit rating is the highest assigned by major agencies like Standard & Poor's?
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What is the term for the gradual loss of an asset's value over time?
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What document tracks your borrowing history and is used to get loans?
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What is the term for a company offering its shares to the public for the first time?
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What is the term for buying and selling assets within a single day for quick profit?
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Who founded the bond-trading firm PIMCO and was nicknamed the 'Bond King'?
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Which investor is nicknamed the 'Oracle of Omaha'?
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What is the name for an emergency stash of money for unexpected expenses?
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What is the name of the bronze sculpture symbolizing the New York Stock Exchange?
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What is the name of the U.S. government agency that insures bank deposits?
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Which city is home to the world's oldest stock exchange, founded in 1602?
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What does the Greek letter 'delta' measure for an option?
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What is the term for the money a worker is paid for their labor?
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What is the number that summarizes your creditworthiness from about 300 to 850?
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Who wrote the influential 1949 investing book 'The Intelligent Investor'?
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What is the term for the money a company earns before expenses are subtracted?
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Which financial firm's index, the S&P 500, tracks 500 large U.S. companies?
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Which scholar developed the Efficient Market Hypothesis and won a 2013 Nobel Prize?
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Which country experienced hyperinflation so severe it issued a 100 trillion dollar note in 2008?
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What is the name of the 18th-century French financial bubble engineered by John Law?
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Who was the U.S. Treasury Secretary featured on the ten-dollar bill and the namesake of a hit musical?
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What is the term for the relationship between bond yields of different maturities?
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What is the name of the formula stating that two firms with identical assets should have the same value regardless of capital structure?
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What is the term for money you contribute to a retirement plan from your paycheck?
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What is the term for a measure of a bond's price sensitivity to interest rate changes?
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Which mathematician and trader popularized the term 'black swan' for rare market events?
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What metric divides a stock's price by its earnings per share?
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Who served as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman from 1987 to 2006, nicknamed 'The Maestro'?
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Which technology underlies most cryptocurrencies as a distributed ledger?
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What do you call a loan a business or government issues to investors to raise money?
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What is money that you have not spent and keep for future use called?
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In what year did the Bretton Woods system effectively end when Nixon ended dollar-gold convertibility?
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Which 2010 U.S. financial reform law was enacted after the 2008 crisis?
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What was the name of the German hyperinflation crisis of the early 1920s currency?
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Which currency replaced the franc, mark, and lira for many European nations in 2002?
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What is the term for the original amount of money invested or loaned?
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What is the maximum number of bitcoins that can ever exist?
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What is the name of the first publicly traded company to reach a $3 trillion valuation in 2024?
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What is the practice of giving money or goods to those in need called?
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What does the financial acronym ROI stand for?
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What is the name of the U.S. central bank?
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Which Italian mathematician's name describes a sequence widely used in technical trading analysis?
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Who is the only person to appear on the U.S. $100 bill without having been president?
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What do banks pay you for keeping money in a savings account?
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What does the acronym 401(k) refer to in U.S. finance?
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What is the term for a company worth over one billion dollars in the startup world?
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Which 2002 U.S. law was passed in response to Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals?
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What is the name of the rate at which banks borrowed from each other in London, phased out in 2023?
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Which scandal involving a Houston energy company collapsed in 2001 due to accounting fraud?
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What was the name of the world's first multinational corporation, chartered in 1602?
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Which country's currency is the yen?
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Which Asian financial center is home to the Hang Seng Index?
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What was the highest denomination Federal Reserve Note ever printed for public use, bearing Woodrow Wilson?
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What is the name of the discount that closed-end funds often trade at relative to assets?
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What do you call money that a government collects from citizens and businesses?
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What is a plan for how you will spend and save your money called?
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What is the name of the secured overnight rate that replaced LIBOR in the U.S.?
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Which financial measure tracks consumer prices to gauge inflation in the U.S.?
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What is the strategy of investing a fixed amount at regular intervals called?
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In what year was the Federal Reserve System established in the United States?
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Which 2021 frenzy saw retail investors drive up shares of a struggling video game retailer?
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What is the official currency of the United States?
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What is the term for cash and assets that can be quickly turned into cash?
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What is the term for the percentage a lender charges to borrow money?
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What is a market where prices are generally rising called?
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What is the term for an options strategy combining a put and call at the same strike?
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What is the term for the lowest price a seller will accept for a security?
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Which fund manager runs Renaissance Technologies' famously secretive Medallion Fund?
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What is the name of the Japanese candlestick pattern signaling a potential reversal with a long lower wick?
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What kind of account typically offers easy access to cash for daily spending?
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What was the name of the hedge fund whose 1998 collapse required a Fed-organized bailout?
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Who created the first widely used cryptocurrency under a pseudonym in 2009?
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What is the abbreviation for the total value of goods and services a country produces?
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Who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics for the option-pricing formula alongside Robert Merton?
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Who founded Vanguard and pioneered the low-cost index mutual fund?
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What is the famous financial district in New York City known as?
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Which economist coined the term 'creative destruction' to describe capitalism's churn?
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What does the acronym ETF stand for?
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What is the term for a temporary financial reserve for non-monthly bills like car repairs?
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Which famous economist wrote 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money'?
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Which ancient civilization is credited with creating the first known coins around 600 BC?
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What do economists call a significant decline in economic activity lasting months?
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What is the term for spreading investments to reduce risk?
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Which 1776 book by Adam Smith is a foundational text of modern economics?
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What is the term for a loan with an interest rate that changes over time?
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Which 1907 banking panic led to the creation of the Federal Reserve and was calmed by J.P. Morgan?
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Which 1944 conference established a post-war international monetary system?
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What is the name of the financial ratio measuring a company's debt relative to shareholder equity?
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What is the term for the practice of profiting from price differences in two markets?
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What is the term for a portion of company profits paid to shareholders?
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What is the term for a company splitting its stock to lower the share price?
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Which 1602 to 1611 institution in Amsterdam is considered the first modern central bank precursor?
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What is the term for the practice of repurposing a dormant shell company to go public quickly?
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What is the name of the speculative 1630s Dutch bubble involving flower bulbs?
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What term describes buying shares of ownership in a company?
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What does the popular trading app launched in 2013 with commission-free trades call itself?
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What is the name for the fee a credit card charges if you miss a payment?
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Which legendary trader reportedly made over $1 billion shorting the British pound in 1992?
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What is a fund pooling money from many investors to buy a mix of assets called?
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What is the term for the money left over after all expenses are paid?
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What is the name of the financial model used to price options, published in 1973?
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What is the value of everything you own minus what you owe called?
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What was the name of the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in 2022 under Sam Bankman-Fried?
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What plastic card lets you borrow money to make purchases?
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What is the term for a defensive tactic making a takeover prohibitively expensive?
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What is the name of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, based in Norway?
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What is a fee charged by a broker for executing a trade called?
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In what year was the Bank of England, the model for modern central banking, founded?
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What is the loan you take to attend college often called?
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What is the name for a hostile attempt to gain control of a company by buying its shares?
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What is it called when prices for goods and services rise over time?
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Who is credited with developing Modern Portfolio Theory in his 1952 paper?
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What is the term for a bond rated below investment grade, also called high-yield?
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Which U.S. agency regulates the stock market and was created in 1934?
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What is the term for the cost of borrowing expressed as a yearly percentage?
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Which precious metal historically backed many currencies under a famous monetary standard?
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What does the financial term 'contango' describe in futures markets?
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What term describes selling an investment for more than you paid for it?
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In what year did the Wall Street Crash mark the start of the Great Depression?
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What company became the first to be valued at one trillion dollars in 2018?
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Which 2008 collapse of a major investment bank intensified the global financial crisis?
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Which 1933 U.S. law separated commercial and investment banking until its repeal in 1999?
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What is the term for the highest price a buyer will pay for a stock?
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What is the term for the brief 2010 event when U.S. markets dropped nearly 1,000 points in minutes?
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Which 1987 single-day stock market crash is known as 'Black Monday'?
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In what year did the U.S. abandon the gold standard domestically under Franklin Roosevelt?
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Which 1990s currency crisis began in Thailand in 1997 and spread across the region?
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Which fraudster ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, exposed in 2008?
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Which 1980 to 1982 period of high U.S. interest rates was driven by Fed Chair Paul Volcker?
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What is the name of the world's oldest continuously operating bank, founded in Italy in 1472?
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What is the name of the index often called the 'fear gauge' of the U.S. stock market?
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