Money Moves
This is what you call money you save instead of spending on DoorDash every night.
What are savings?
Electronic junk mail sent for commercial, fraudulent, or malicious purposes.
What is spam?
A global information system of interlinked webpages, documents, and media that you access over the internet using a web browser.
What is the World Wide Web?
This company makes you think you need a new phone every single year.
What is Apple?
This tech giant founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen owns LinkedIn, Xbox, and GitHub.
What is Microsoft?
This is the money you earn for doing a job, even if your boss makes you wear an embarrassing uniform.
What are wages?
The illegal attempt to defeat or avoid the payment of taxes owed to a government.
What is tax evasion?
To save a document today, you click an icon shaped like this ancient, square magnetic storage device that holds less data than a plain text message.
What is a floppy disk?
This company gives you wings.
What is Red Bull?
Originally started as a social network for college students, this parent company owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads.
What is Meta?
This is the money you owe when you buy something now and promise to pay later.
What is debt?
The act of giving money, gifts, or favors to someone in a position of power or authority to unfairly influence their decisions.
What is bribery?
Before streaming, people spent hours burning custom music playlists onto these shiny plastic discs, only for them to get scratched and skip anyway.
What are CDs? (Compact Discs)
A person who has the power to shape the opinions, behavior, or purchasing choices of others. They often tell you a product is amazing but probably got paid to say it.
What is an influencer?
This search engine giant’s parent company, Alphabet, also owns YouTube and the self-driving car company Waymo.
What is Google?
An overdraft happens when you spend or withdraw more money than you have in your bank account, causing your account balance to drop below zero.
What is an overdraft (overdrafting)?
The illegal process of taking "dirty" money—funds generated from criminal activities like drug trafficking, fraud, or corruption—and passing it through the financial system to make it look like "clean" money.
What is money laundering?
Long before smartphones, if you wanted to text a friend in the 1990s, you had to type numeric codes on a little plastic clip-on device called this.
What is a pager (beeper)?
You go into Target for toothpaste and leave with $87 worth of stuff.
What is impulse buying?
After purchasing it for $44 billion in 2022, this billionaire entrepreneur rebranded Twitter as X.
Who is Elon Musk?
How quickly and easily an asset, security, or holding can be converted into ready cash.
What is liquidity?
A financial crime where a person who has lawful access to money or property fraudulently converts or steals those assets for personal use.
What is embezzlement?
The text-based gatekeepers that force you to prove your humanity by identifying which blurry squares contain a traffic light.
What is a CAPTCHA?
This marketing trick makes you think something is almost sold out so you buy it immediately.
What is scarcity marketing?
Known for its "Prime" delivery service, this e-commerce titan owns the grocery chain Whole Foods and the streaming platform Twitch.
What is Amazon?