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100

As of January 2023, this country held 6% of the world’s stock market capitalization, second only to the United States.

What is Japan?

100

A savings instrument which typically earns more interest than a savings account but requires leaving the money in until the maturity date.

What is a Certificate of Deposit (CD)?

100

He is known as the father of economics.

Who is Adam Smith?

100

Greenhouse gases that are indirectly caused by an organization's activities, but are not produced by the organization itself or from assets it owns or controls.

What are Scope 3 emissions?

100

This ECNY Member is the first woman to head a major global U.S. bank.

Who is Jane Fraser (Citigroup)?

200

The world’s largest exchange in terms of listed companies' market value.

What is the New York Stock Exchange?

200

The title of the journal article by Yale law student Lina Khan in 2017.

What is "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox"?

200

The 2001 film about Nobel laureate John Nash and his work on game theory.

What is "A Beautiful Mind"?

200

This 2020 event is estimated to lower climate change by 0.01°C by 2030.

What is the Covid-19 pandemic?

200

In 2014, this economist became the first woman appointed as chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States.

Who is Janet Yellen?

300

A shell corporation listed on the exchange with the purpose of acquiring a private company enabling it to go public without going through the traditional IPO process.

What is a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company)?

300

The most common criminal charge brought against business organizations.

What is fraud?

300

This is the change in the cost of production from increasing output by a single unit.

What is marginal cost?

300

The worldwide economic sector most vulnerable to climate risk.

What is agriculture?

300

 In addition to her job as a president and chief investment officer in tech, this current ECNY Member and Former Trustee is on the boards of directors of Stanford University Management Company, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Blackstone Group.

Who is Ruth Porat?

400

The month when folk wisdom says stock market crashes are most likely to occur.

What is October?

400

The credit card company that adopted a gladiator or centurion into its logo in 1958.

What is American Express?

400

The percentage change in demand for a product when its price changes by a certain percentage.

What is elasticity?

400

Around the world, governments are pushing for this overall balance between greenhouse gas emissions produced and greenhouse gas emissions taken out of the atmosphere.

What is net zero emissions?

400

For three months in 2023, this ECNY board member was the only black female CEO in the Fortune 500.

Who is Thasunda Brown Duckett?

500

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla

What are the Magnificent Seven?

500

Its acronym is SWIFT, and its purpose is to conduct electronic funds transfer.

What is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications?

500

This is an economic theory that inflation and unemployment have a stable and inverse relationship.

What is the Phillips Curve?

500

NASA satellite missions in 2020 showed that icecaps in this part of the Kingdom of Denmark were losing ice six times faster than in the 1990’s.

What is Greenland?

500

This ECNY Speaker has evolved from a tough childhood in Chicago to an investment magnate and an early leader in racial equity, launching the Black Corporate Directors Conference in 2002.

Who is Mellody Hobson (Ariel Investment)?

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