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| A certificate of ownership of a specified portion of a debt due to be paid by a government or corporation to an individual holder and usually bearing a fixed rate of interest. |
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| To force prices downward in a market or a stock. |
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| The point at which the income from sale of a product or service equals the invested costs, resulting in neither profit nor loss |
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| Having the ability to stop spending, and stick to a budget. |
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| Occurs when almost all the stock prices are rising. |
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| An ecomomy that doesn't take part in international trade. |
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| When a government controls the entire economy; communists. |
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| Stalk holders can vote on company policies, but they are the last people to be payed of in the event of bankrupcy. |
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| A debt is when you borrow money and you have not payed it back yet. |
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| A good that will never expire, such as a pencil. |
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| The amount of money a buisness has after subtracting money they ow, outside of shareholders. |
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| Sales outside of the sending country. |
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| The central Bank of the US. They can raise interest rates, lower interest rates, and they hold money for other countries. |
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| A cost that doesn't change no matter how many are produced or how much is produced, such as the rent on an apartment. |
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| The purchases of foreign goods or services. |
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| How easy it is to turn an asset into cash. |
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| The difference made by buying one extra unit of something. It is how much more someone who have to pay for something if they just wanted one more. |
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| The opposite of a command economy; buying and selling is free to happen whenever and however. |
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| North American Free Trade Agreement, made between US, Mexico and Canada. Free trade throughout all of those countries. |
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| National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation:Largest US stock exchange company. |
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| Goods that will expire at some point or another, such as milk. |
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| An economy that allows trading throughout the world. |
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| The cost to get something. Not just the money value, but the cost of other stuff you could have bought with that money. |
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| Stalk where the stalk holder is first to be payed off in the case of the company closing, but they don't get to vote on company policies. |
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| The selling of something that the seller doesn't own. i.e. I borrow a stalk for worth $100 at a 10% interest rate. I sell the stalk to someone at that rate, hope the value drops over the next few months, buy it again at hopefully a lower rate, and then return the stalk plus 10 dollars. |
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| A cost that changes over time, such as milk, it changes a bit each week. |
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